Architecture Against the Post-Political

Description

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

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.

This collection fills the gap in the existing literature on the relation between politics and aesthetics, and its implications for the theoretical discourse of architecture today. In summary, this book provides a response to the predominant de-politicization in academic discourse and is an attempt to re-claim the abandoned critical project in architecture.

CONTENTS

• 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

252 pages, 25 B/W Illus / 17,5 x24,5 cm / English