Architecture Against the Post-Political (eBook, ePUB)

Essays in Reclaiming the Critical Project
Redaktion: Lahiji, Nadir

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Architecture Against the Post-Political is a timely anthology that re-asserts the question of the political and challenges the current abandonment of the critical project in architectural theory and practice

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317702306
• Artikelnr.: 41008825

Autorenporträt

Nadir Lahiji is Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Canberra, Australia. He is the editor of Missed Encounter of Radical Philosophy with Architecture (Bloomsbury, 2014). He previously edited The Political Unconscious: Re-Opening Jameson's Narrative (Ashgate, 2011) and co-edited Plumbing: Sounding Modern Architecture (Princeton Architectural Press, 1997). He teaches architecture theory, modernity, and contemporary criticism in the intersections of philosophy, radical social theory and psychoanalytical theory.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures Preface Acknowledgements List of Contributors Introduction:
The Critical Project and the Post-Political Suspension of Politics NADIR
LAHIJI Part 1: Aesthetics, Politics, and Architecture 1. Metropolitics, or,
Architecture and the Contemporary Left DAVID CUNNINGHAM 2. Modern Democracy
and Aesthetic Revolution in the Work of Rancière: Reflections on Historical
Causality GABRIEL ROCKHILL 3. Unfaithful Reflections: Re-actualizing
Benjamin's Aestheticism Thesis LIBERO ANDREOTTI 4. Political
Subjectification and the Architectural Dispositif NADIR LAHIJI Part 2: The
Political and the Critique of Architecture 5. Capitalism and the Politics
of Autonomy GEVORK HARTOONIAN 6. Architecture As Such: Notes on
Generic(ness) and Labor Sans Phrase FRANCESCO MARULLO 7. Thoughts on
Agency, Utopia and Property in Contemporary Architectural and Urban Theory
GEORGE BAIRD 8. Metalepsis of the Site of Exception DONALD KUNZE Part 3:
The Post-Political and Contemporary Urbanism 9. The Architecture of
Managerialism: OMA, CCTV, and the Post-Political DOUGLAS SPENCER 10. Zero
Points: Urban Space and the Political Subject UTA GELBKE 11. To Fill the
Earth: Architecture in a Spaceless Universe ROSS EXO ADAMS 12. From
Post-Political to Agonistic: Warsaw Urban Space Since 1989 LIDIA KLEIN
Index.