Death by landscape. Lifelines and Slow death as reflection on inhabitation

Abstract

Mobilizing the figures of Lifelines and Slow death the paper offers a series of incomplete spatial narratives of different territories in crisis in which inhabiting is questioned. Beirut, peripheral Paris and north Lebanon shows an Inhabiting on hold: a form of space where reconfigurations of an affective economy of precariousness is questioning architecture and urbanism forging spaces of inconvenience to describes the pressure of the proximity of many kinds of tension, positively and negatively valences. The paper aims to visible a series of margins, edges of cities, minorities inhabited by majorities, spatial micro-worlds in which one can see the macroscopic remoteness of institutions and the gigantic power of autonomy, of the makeshift, effects of structuring territorial inequality in a perpetual state of becoming.