–In this moment of deglobalization, you can bet globalization is underway or accelerating in some places: What do you think all those petro-dollars are doing? You can also bet deglobalization was well underway at the height of globalization in other cases: What else did all those empty containers returning back to China indicate?
Globalization or deglobalization is not the other’s counterfactual, but rather counter-archives of what was and is happening. Such is differentiation when insisted on from the get-go.
–Yet you still read about big-pot cities chronically underfunded and over-burdened, home to division and decrepit infrastructure, struggling with unplanned and the intractable inequality. And yet these cities are meant to find that wherewithal with which to replace their legacy structures, turn themselves into engines of innovation, and seize municipalization as the social movement.
In these critiques, cities are render destitutes of their small-bowl differentiation.
–So what?
Well for one thing, take that aforementioned inequality. Like congeries, inequality is a plural noun based in differences.
WHEN COMPLEX IS AS SIMPLE AS IT GETS 