"The possibility of imagining large-scale interventions or communal spaces is still mostly bypassed in favour of pre-emptively ineffectual notions of micro-resistance. In Critical Cities this alternately entails picturesque images of Japanese tent cities, or, in one of several ‘curated interviews’ here, one contributor praising how Dubai’s indentured workers use the ultra-motorised city in an unplanned manner, carving out their own spaces. Regardless, a slave who ‘creatively’ ‘subverts’ space is still a slave."
