Voces de ciudad

Abstract

Discourses on the city: the city converted in the feelings of those who live it or suffer it and, finally, give it a name, name it from the vantage point of literature, music, architecture, poetry or urbanistics. This proliferation of discourse refers to the city. On the basis of this premise, this article searches for or reflects upon urban discourse from a point somewhere else, from a "no place" into which the enunciator would have disappeared and the city would have spoken of itself. The discourse of the city, How to understand that voices? The article deals with these more or less enigmatic aspects, starting with the tree archaic modes of saying city, civitas and urbs (Latin) and polis (Greek). Here the signs would be generated that would allow an understanding of urban groups in their significance. It is from this archeology that a complex reflection on language, rizomatic discursivity and the whole cultural complex of possible cities comes forth.