Urban Machine Space as (Non-)Place: Interpreting Semiotic Representations of Subway Space in Daegu Heesang Lee* 2 3 Abstract This paper is an attempt to explore semiotic representations of subway space as the urban machine space of local mobility in terms of space, time and place. For this, the second section of the paper reviews the contours of the urban space of mobility in terms of machine space, non-place and cognitive map. The third section interprets the sings of spatial and temporal representations of subway space in Daegu, and suggests the implications of the semiotic representations. It is uncovered that various sign-scapes which coexist in the subway space in coordinated or contradictory ways product the space into multiple and complex techno-social spaces. That is, the spatio-temporal representations of the subway space form the space of non-place on the one hand and the space of place on the other hand, and involve the spatialization of memory on the one hand and the spatialization of forgetting on the other hand. Thus, the subway space should be regarded to be not only the space of mobility which people move in and through, but also the space of identity which has effects on the ways for them to see the machine space and its urban space. : mobility, machine space, (non-)place, subway space, sign, representation, memory, forgetting (Teacher, Gosan Middle School, Deagu and Part-time Lecturer, Catholic University of Daegu), thisang@hanmail.net 301
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