Architecture Against the Post-Political: Essays in Reclaiming the Critical Project

ISBN-13: 9780415725378 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 252 str.

Nadir Lahiji

Opis

Written by a team of renowned contributors and carefully edited to address the themes laid out by the editors in their introduction, the book includes theoretical issues concerning the questions of aesthetics and politics and addresses city and urban strategies within the general critique of the 'post-political'. By focusing on specific case studies from Warsaw, Barcelona, Dubai, Tokyo and many more the book consolidates the contributions of a diverse group of academics, architects and critics from Europe, the Middle East and America.

Spis treści

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.

O autorze

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.