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  • 2 - Order Invisible

  • from Part I - Nocturnal Realities
  • Avner Wishnitzer, Tel-Aviv University
  • Book:
    As Night Falls
    Published online:
    27 July 2021
    Print publication:
    01 July 2021, pp 46-80

  • Summary

    Seeking to limit potentially invisible, incontrollable activity, official decrees, neighborhood communities, guilds, and moralists together created a powerful discourse that stigmatized the night, and a set of regulations aimed to impose visibility on those who nevertheless went out after dark. Yet, with vision impaired, the night continued to pose a challenge to urban order, and the authorities at times applied harsh punitive measures in order to project fear. These demonstrations of formal violence were meant to somewhat compensate for the rulers’ actually rather precarious control over the dark city.