In the context of hotly contested debates within critical urban theory, many scholars have recently attempted (both implicitly and explicitly) to move beyond the relational-dialectical concept of ‘totality’, taking up the notion of ‘the constitutive outside’ in its place. With this in view, this article seeks to (1) develop a critique of the ways in which the concept of the constitutive outside is deployed in these debates; and (2) to sketch another path forward – one that understands capitalist urbanisation as a distinctive moment in the evolution of a world-encompassing and internally related socio-spatial totality, while also attending to well-founded concerns among theorists of the constitutive outside regarding the question of difference and ascriptive hierarchisation. More precisely, this article will pursue a close reading of work on the constitutive outside in critical urban theory, suggesting that it effectively re-articulates longstanding and entrenched tenets of capitalist ideology, positing the image of a ‘space-time of the other’. And it will conclude with a revised conceptualisation of totality for critical urban theory, building on Nancy Fraser’s recent work on capitalism’s racialised, gendered, and ecological ‘hidden abodes’.

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构成的外部还是隐藏的住所？批判城市理论中的整体性和意识形态

在批判城市理论激烈争论的背景下，许多学者最近试图（含蓄地和明确地）超越“整体性”的关系辩证概念，而采用“构成性外部”的概念来代替。有鉴于此，本文旨在（1）对这些争论中运用本构外部概念的方式进行批评；(2)勾勒出另一条前进道路——将资本主义城市化理解为包罗万象、内部相关的社会空间整体演变中的一个独特时刻，同时也关注外部构成理论家们有充分根据的担忧差异和归属层次化的问题。更准确地说，本文将仔细阅读批判城市理论中关于外部构成的著作，表明它有效地重新阐明了资本主义意识形态长期存在和根深蒂固的原则，提出了“他者的时空”的形象。它将以南希·弗雷泽最近关于资本主义的种族化、性别化和生态“隐藏住所”的研究为基础，对批判城市理论的总体概念进行修订。