KA NOVOJ POETICI URBANOG PROSTORA: OVOGA PUTA O POKRETU

Abstract

The paper represents a continuation of previously conducted research, which dealt with the ontological and narrative aspects of contemporary urban experience, simultaneously manifest on two planes: actual and virtual. Accordingly, the text primarily focuses on further development of theoretical concepts and analytical examination of principal tenets of narratourbology, an emergent digital humanities discipline. While operating within a wide multidisciplinary field of spatial studies (urbanism, digital esthetics, ontology, cultural studies, and literary theory), and relying on the hypothesis that implies the necessity of interpreting the ontological status of cyberspace as urbanist and narrative issue, we have attempted to answer the following questions: is navigating the contemporary urban environment, created through hybridization of physical and virtual spaces, a constitutive factor of the urban experience and subjectivity itself, who are contemporary flaneûrs, and: is movement even possible in cyberspace considering its trans- and meta temporal nature.