![]() ![]() ![]() Second, Taylor’s interlocking network model is interrogated to reveal how it not only contradicts Sassen, but is a structuralism bedevilled by a sorites paradox problem where cities are indistinguishable from, and therefore totally reducible to, structures. First, a previously unacknowledged account of the neo-Marxist back-story to the global city concept is explicated to foreground how Sassen’s concept presides over a common epistemological tradition in urban studies that envisions capitalism as a totalizing structure to assume it is commanded and controlled through strategic urban loci. This paper prepares the ground to move the theoretical and empirical agenda of global urban studies beyond its dominant neo-Marxist tradition towards a broadly conceived poststructuralist approach to include research in actor-network theory, cultural-economy, social studies of finance, and post-continental philosophy. Please refer to the published version when quoting the paper This Research Bulletin has been published in International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 38 (1), (2014), 98-115 under the title 'Beyond the Global City Concept and the Myth of "Command and Control"'.
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