The Ethics of a Potential Urbanism: Critical Encounters Between Giorgio Agamben and Architecture

ISBN-13: 9781138616608 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 188 str.

Camillo Boano

Opis

This book explores the possible and potential relevance of Giorgio Agamben’s political thoughts and writings for the theory and the practice of architecture and urban design.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: An Architecture Inseparable from its Form, Part I: Agamben’s Burning House, 2. Paradigmatic Spaces: Agamben Spaces, Architecture and Arts, 3. Literal and Artistic Potential Common Grounds, 4. The Taking Place of Possible Inoperative Encounters, Part II: Giorgio Agamben’s Oeuvre, 5. Earlier Works: The Man Without Contents, Stanzas and Language and History, 6. The Coming Politics and Potentialities: The Coming Community, 7. The Homo Sacer project since its inception to Stasis, Part III: Towards an Inoperative Architecture, 8. Paradigms and Dispositifs, 9. Profanation, 10. Potentialities, 11. Inoperativity, 12. Use, 13. Abandoning the Project: The Possibility for a Whatever Architecture