The processes of enunciation in the city as a text

Abstract

Semiotic sciences have often dealt with space in relation to the concept of text. Of all the spaces, the city represents a very complex text, since it cannot be fully analyzed if the people involved in that text are not considered.
When we talk about spaces as texts and the relationship that people have with them, the question of enunciation arises. As far as urban spaces are concerned, the main subject responsible for the enunciation processes is represented by the Institutions, which continually recreate urban spaces. On the other hand, citizens represent the subjects to whom these text spaces are addressed. However, it is necessary to highlight how the spaces created by the Institutions do not remain the same as themselves, but as different subjects constantly enunciating the urban fabric. In such a context, it is necessary to evaluate how digital technologies, which play an increasingly central role in relation to urban spaces, intervene in the described processes. In particular, their application in urban spaces leads to the creation of new data and information and as a consequence to rethinking the traditional categories associated with urban spaces, as well as the enunciation processes traditionally intended for this type of space.