Architecture in the Age of Pornography: Reading Alain Badiou

ISBN-13: 9781032049052 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 164 str.

Nadir Lahiji

Opis

In this book, Nadir Lahiji adopts Alain Badiou’s thesis from The Pornographic Age to demonstrate that contemporary architecture is in absolute complicity with the pornographic present. The book is aimed at architecture students at higher graduate and post-graduate levels.

O autorze

Nadir Lahiji is an architect. He is most recently the author of Architecture, Philosophy and the Pedagogy of Cinema (Routledge, 2021), Architecture or Revolution: Emancipatory Critique after Marx (Routledge, 2020), and An Architecture Manifesto: Critical Reason and Theories of a Failed Practice (Routledge, 2019). His previous publications include, among others, Adventures with the Theory of the Baroque and French Philosophy and the co-authored The Architecture of Phantasmagoria: Specters of the City.