Architecture against the post-political : essays in reclaiming the critical project / edited by Nadir Lahiji ; afterword by Joan Ockman.

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author: Lahiji, Nadir, 1948- (Author, Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2014.
Edition:First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the critical project and the post-political suspension of politics / Nadir Lahiji
  • Aesthetics, politics, and architecture. Metropolitics, or, architecture and the contemporary left / David Cunningham
  • Modern democracy and aesthetic revolution in the work of Rancière: reflections on historical causality / Gabriel Rockhill
  • Unfaithful reflections: re-actualizing Benjamin's aestheticism thesis / Libero Andreotti
  • Political subjectification and the architectural dispositif / Nadir Lahiji
  • The political and the critique of architecture. Capitalism and the politics of autonomy / Gevork Hartoonian
  • Architecture as such: notes on generic(ness) and labor sans phrase / Francesco Marullo
  • Thoughts on agency, utopia and property in contemporary architectural and urban theory / George Baird
  • Metalepsis of the site of exception / Donald Kunze
  • The post-political and contemporary urbanism. The architecture of managerialism: OMA, CCTV, and the post-political / Douglas Spencer
  • Zero points: urban space and the political subject / Uta Gelbke
  • To fill the earth: architecture in a spaceless universe / Ross Exo Adams
  • From post-political to agonistic: Warsaw urban space since 1989 / Lidia Klein.