This article addresses the socio-cognitive conceptualizations of the notion of ‘citizenship’ within the space of
smart cities. It discusses how smart cities expos are endowed with ideological bearings that mark a shift in these
conceptualizations. This ideological shift is explored in the policy releases of Barcelona expo media centre 2019/2020 as
retrieved from the Smart City Expo World Congress website. The framework accounts for the socio-cognitive aspects that are brought
to the smart expos’ discussions, reframing it within the paradigms of Posthumanism and neoliberal urbanism. It is found that
citizenship within smart city discourse is characterized by series of subjugating conflations between biovalues and biometrics,
the body, technology, and the city and the citizen. These subjugations are discovered by contesting the metaphors of
CITIZEN-FOCUSED URBANISM, VULNERABLE CITIZENS, and TECHNOLOGICAL SOLUTIONISM with their reframed counterparts of BIOMETRIC
CITIZEN, INFRASTRUCTURE CITIZENSHIP, and TECHNOLOGICAL PATERNALISM.