流泥 Concrete Flux #02
混雜性 Hybridity

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世界上的城市都變成了實驗室，在這裡，解決問題的方案被有意或無意地設計出來，並試用在日常實踐中，而這些方案最終可能被日常實踐拒絕，或是接受。

– 齊格蒙特•鮑曼，《全球化與混雜》

Cities all over the world turn into local laboratories in which the ways of resolving problems are improvised or purposefully designed and then put to test and either rejected or incorporated in daily practice.

– Zygmunt BAUMAN, Globalization & Hybridity

Understanding Chinese cities through the lens of hybridity offers a different perspective from that of the surface ‘radical juxtaposition’—poverty and wealth, ancient and modern, urban, rural, young, old, and so on. It shows us the city as a location in which a dynamic and ceaseless process of meeting, compromise, change and the birth of the new is taking place. As a number of pieces in this issue of Concrete Flux demonstrate, this can prove disconcerting, disorientating and throw up what we may see as paradoxes (but which later generations may take as common place and common sense).

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《流泥》是一個以中國超速發展的城市空間為主線的多媒體、跨學科電子刊物，旨在討論城市化運動的意義與該語境下個體的日常經驗。我們相信由城市化引 導的空間構建勢必走向一種社會重組。我們希望能夠找到理解這些空間的方法與思路，儘管它們的繁殖速度看上去遠遠超過了我們思想與身體的消化上限。

Concrete Flux is a multi-disciplinary journal which takes as its subject matter China’s hyper-fast emerging urban spaces, their meaning and one’s everyday experiences of them. We believe that a new configuration of space through urbanisation will lead to a new configuration of society. Our aim, then, is to contribute to some understanding of or gain insight into what these spaces, which seem to emerge faster than our minds can log and assess, may mean.