Introduction : Paris, invisible city: The plasma

Bruno Latour (1)

1 médialab - médialab (Sciences Po)

Everything in the city remains invisible, everything and, over and above everything, the city taken as a whole. One might say that we now have satellite maps enabling us to zoom in on every level, so conveniently that in a few clicks we can switch from the entire Ile-de-France to the roof of our building. We do therefore have the right, for once, with regard to Google Earth or the National Geo- graphic Institute’s site, to talk of a panopticon, since we ‘‘embrace the entire city’’ and are able, at the same time, to keep delving down into its minutest detail (...).

Mots clés: cartographie; ville

Domaines: Sociologie

Bruno Latour. Introduction : Paris, invisible city: The plasma. City, Culture and Society, 2012, 3 (2), pp.91 - 93. ⟨10.1016/j.ccs.2011.11.002⟩. ⟨hal-01522838⟩