Architecture against the post-political : essays in reclaiming the critical project

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. Inhoud: Part I Aesthetics, politics, and architecture; 1 Metropolitics, or, architecture and the contemporary Left 2 Modern democracy and aesthetic revolution in the work of Rancière: reflections on historical causality 3 Unfaithful reflections: re-actualizing Benjamin's aestheticism thesis 4 Political subjectification and the architectural dispositif. Part II The political and the critique of architecture 5 Capitalism and the politics of autonomy 6 Architecture as such: notes on generic(ness) and labor sans phrase 7 Thoughts on agency, utopia, and property in contemporary architectural and urban theory 8 Metalepsis of the site of exception Part III The post-political and contemporary urbanism 9 The architecture of managerialism: OMA, CCTV, and the post-political 10 Zero points: urban space and the political subject 11 To fill the earth: architecture in a spaceless universe 12 From post-political to agonistic: Warsaw urban space since 1989

Architecture against the post-political : essays in reclaiming the critical project

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. Inhoud: Part I Aesthetics, politics, and architecture; 1 Metropolitics, or, architecture and the contemporary Left 2 Modern democracy and aesthetic revolution in the work of Rancière: reflections on historical causality 3 Unfaithful reflections: re-actualizing Benjamin's aestheticism thesis 4 Political subjectification and the architectural dispositif. Part II The political and the critique of architecture 5 Capitalism and the politics of autonomy 6 Architecture as such: notes on generic(ness) and labor sans phrase 7 Thoughts on agency, utopia, and property in contemporary architectural and urban theory 8 Metalepsis of the site of exception Part III The post-political and contemporary urbanism 9 The architecture of managerialism: OMA, CCTV, and the post-political 10 Zero points: urban space and the political subject 11 To fill the earth: architecture in a spaceless universe 12 From post-political to agonistic: Warsaw urban space since 1989