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How to make sense of the current staging via requalification and event organizing in some public spaces of an urban form characterized by fun-seeking and the convivial reappropriation of the city? Is this an opportunity for urban residents to act for themselves and assert their own understanding of collective life, or a conditioning and normalizing attempt to secure social peace? This paper discusses the context and aims of this mechanism, in the sense given to the term by philosopher G. Agamben as “anything that has in one way or another the ability to capture, direct, determine, intercept, shape, control, and ensure movements, behaviors, opinions, and discourses.”