PostmodernCitySpaceofFlows.pptVIP

Postmodern City Space of Flows Taipei’s Examples Outline Starting Questions Taipei’s Hybrid Identity –a Historical Perspective Review 1: Planned City vs. Organic City Review 2: Taipei’s History Taipei’s Hybrid Identity –a “Global Economy” Perspective (〈台灣的文化編入與脫落－依賴城市都市象徵初步觀察〉 ) 3. 〈公寓導遊〉 4.《愛情來了》 5. Ref.〈城市飛行〉 Starting Questions (1) Do you find anything in common among Vive l’amour (愛情萬歲), The Personal (徵婚啟事) and Love Go Go (愛情來了)? Vive l’amour (愛情萬歲), The Personal (徵婚啟事) and Love Go Go (愛情來了): Love and Human Connections in Taipei – difficult because They happen among “strangers,” or people outside of marriage/family and in public spaces; They happen to people who seem to be/are uprooted and in the flows Difference: Love Go Go as a Comedy Comic (or imperfect) characters + their difficulties + traumas Positive treatments of human connections Starting Questions (1) How about 系統的多重關係 and 公寓導遊? The school and the apartment as miniature society—in multiple relations An “omniscient” narrator connecting the characters’ lives Difference --公寓導遊 Apartment Tour Guide –less sympathetic and more objective The lives – more diverse, connected by coincidence, accidence or mere concurrence. People in the Urban Flows Flows of desires, commodities, information, people and capital. The Two(Three) Stories – The characters not family members; instead, they are interconnected by mere chance by chance in their common space and by their past (公寓導遊）Love Go Go by their common dreams (kite, plane and flying), mutual support (the two films) and/or fears (公寓). Three class levels: middle class at 富禮 and Love Go Go, middle and lower class in 城市飛行; with menial jobs, jobless or emotionally empty. Starting Questions (2) What is “space of flows”? And what causes it? Starting Questions (2) What is “space of flows”? And what causes it? Flows: a general feature in postmodern society (caused by technologies—esp. telecommunication—multinational capitalism and global migration.