I have argued that the spatial dialectic offers another approach to explore the technological and cultural changes represented by the idea of 'platform urbanism'. Instead of a nominalism which fixates on technological particularities and eschews the total process, a dialectical critique of space can recover an image of the city which maps the capitalist mode of production. To that end, the analysis of culture is still significant, particularly when we recognise how the economy of cities appears to be in a state of reversion. Culture today is reverting to its earliest meaning – the improvement of land for the cultivation of crops – but what has changed is the object of cultivation. The conversion of land into capital today mediates a global search for new ways to subject urban ensembles of social relations to a never-ending dependence on capital.