Deleuze and the City

ISBN-13: 9781474407595 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 272 str.

Frichot; Frichot Helene; Gabrielsson Catharina

Opis

The city as complex compound of cultural and natural forces and flows is characterised in multifarious and contradictory ways. A city is never just a transforming built environment of a particular scale or global reputation, but located, specific, differentiated and impossible to grasp in all its complexity.
The 16 contributors to this collection re-deploy conceptual tools of Deleuze and Guattari, and demonstrate in many instances how these tools can be altered and revised to meet the problematic urban fields in question. This also means calling on the legacy of Deleuze and Guattari by way of those thinkers and practitioners who follow after, and who have augmented and altered their project.
Deleuze and the City asks what a city can do, how its human and non-human relations can be made sufficiently durable, how we can make ourselves worthy of our encounters in the city, how we might expand and contract its influence, and participate in the formation of affirmative rather than destructive subjective, social and environmental ecologies.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Introduction: What a City Can Do; 1. Becoming-Other: New Orleans from a Deleuzian Perspective; 2. Humans as Vectors and Intensities: Becoming Urban in Berlin and New York City; 3. Rethinking the City as a Body without Organs; 4. The Impredicative City, or What Can a Boston Square Do?; 5. Laboratory Urbanism in Schladming; 6. Never Believe That the City Will Suffice to Save Us! Stockholm Gentri-Fictions; 7 Urban Democracy Beyond Deleuze and Guattari; 8. Genealogy of Capital and the City: CERFI, Deleuze and Guattari; 9. Deterritorialising the Face of the City: How Treponema pallidum Planned Melbourne; 10. The City and ‘the Homeless’: Machinic Subjects; 11 Cut-Make-and-Trim: Fast Fashion Urbanity in the Residues of Rana Plaza; 12. The Haifa Urban Destruction Machine; 13. Imagining Portland’s Future Past: Lessons from Indigenous Placemaking in a Colonial City; 14. Folded Ground: Escape from Cape Town; 15. Sociability and Endurance in Jakarta; Postscript: For an Urban Machinic Ecology; Notes on Contributors; Index.