Achille Mbembe

Gebundenes Buch

Brutalism

Beschreibung

Achille Mbembe invokes the architectural aesthetic of brutalism to describe our moment, caught up in the pathos of demolition and production on a planetary scale, arguing that the solution is to develop a new planetary consciousness and a community of humans in solidarity with all living things.

Autor

Achille Mbembe is Research Professor in History and Politics at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He is author of Necropolitics and Critique of Black Reason and coeditor of Johannesburg: The Elusive Metropolis, all also published by Duke University Press.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9781478020875
• ISBN-10: 1478020873
• Artikelnr.: 68139388