Contemporary metropolis and forms of life: outlining the subjectivity of the multitude. We distinguish the notions (concepts) of metropolis, forms of life, subjectivity of the multitude.
The concept of metropolis will be approached in a similar way to Georg Simmel. It will not be studied as a physical space, since its spatiality and its changes are not required to the reading of metropolitan boundaries. The issue focuses on the sensory perception and the experiences of the subject, which are fed by the life in the metropolis and are shaping its subject. Its forms of life are articulated as multirateral social relationships that make the metropolitan subject emerge (and not only) as spectator, worker, controlling, and controlled. The phenomenon will be examined from the point of view of Italian post-workerists and its postmodern aspects after the 70s. Then, it begins a critique of the great narratives of modernity that wants to break the big sets and the binary analysis of antagonisms. Negri and Hardt write about the world of modern domination, that it is "divided by a series of binary contradictions that define the Self and the Other, the white and the black, the inside and the outside, the ruler and the ruled". The modern multitude is the post-modern way of being, the one who challenges the universality of the people and allows for multiplicity. The subject will be examined through its socialization, governance, relations, and its position and responsibility will be sought out, by extracting it from general sets that incorporate it into the logic of misguided individuality. In total, modern forms of life will be approached through human experience, that is through modern intellect, work and political action. Also, through the governance of the multitude and its subjectivity, through the biopower it exercises and the one exercised upon it and through its reduction to modern sets. Finally, an example will be cited as a breaking point of the above, that of the Paris suburbs in 2005.