{} “The sectors of a city are to some extent decipherable.”
Guy Debord  

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{} “For indeed any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the
rich; these are at war with one another.”
Plato

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{} “The refugee should be considered for what he is, that is, nothing less than a border concept.”
Giorgio Agamben

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{} “While Migropolis interrogates the mechanisms that globalization deploys
to plunder Venice, it
is equally a critique-in-
practice of the means of representation available for a visual analysis: graphics and photography. In that it confronts the Debordian quandary: The spectacle
can only be critiqued in spectacular terms.”
Lewis Baltz

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{} “Venice like no one has
ever observed, analyzed or described her before. Truly no one. (…) It is no coincidence that this extraordinary research and dramatic tale was able to take form within a university – a space inhabited by those very peculiar ‘new Venetians’ who are scholars. They themselves are the protagonists of yet another migration – no longer one of leisure or pain, but one
of knowledge.”
Marco De Michelis

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{} “These people go out from their countries driven by necessity that arises
from famine, or war, and oppression, which in
their own country is experienced by them, so that they are constrained to seek new land. Therefore they are most formidable, and if they are not confronted by good arms, can never be
held back.”
Machiavelli

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{} “Barça ou barsakh is
a slogan that young Senegalese use when leaving their country.
It means: It's better
to go to Barça, which means Barcelona,
than to stay in Africa. Barsakh is death.
They prefer to die than to stay in Senegal, because they know they won't find work.”
Djibril X.

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{} “We will continue coming. There’s nothing you can do about it. Because there you die of hunger sitting on top of diamonds.”
Mulaye X.

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{} “Influenced by what we were presented by the media, we thought that money was
to be easily found and that there isn't any poverty in the industrialized world.”
Mbaje X.

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{} “I had seen St. Mark’s Square on TV, in commercials, the old buildings. Hawaii doesn’t have buildings like this. The gondolas, we see those on TV. Do you know Las Vegas? They have all of this right there, singing gondoliers etc.. It’s huge, big like this square. Seven billion dollars!”
Libby Y.

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{} “Street peddling in Venice must have been around for a long time. I've heard people in Africa speaking about Venice since I was a child.”
Momo X.

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