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Spatial Violence - Studies in Architecture (Hardcover)
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Spatial Violence - Studies in Architecture (Hardcover)
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This book poses spatial violence as a constitutive dimension of
architecture and its epistemologies, as well as a method for
theoretical and historical inquiry intrinsic to architecture; and
thereby offers an alternative to predominant readings of spatial
violence as a topic, event, fact, or other empirical form that may
be illustrated by architecture. Exploring histories of and through
architecture at sites across the globe, the chapters in the book
blur the purportedly distinctive borders between war and peace,
framing violence as a form of social, political, and economic order
rather than its exceptional interruption. Regarding space and
violence as co-constitutive, the book's collected essays critique
modernization and capitalist accumulation as naturalized modes for
the extraction of violence from everyday life. Focusing on the
mediation of violence through architectural registers of
construction, destruction, design, use, representation, theory, and
history, the book suggests that violence is not only something
inflicted upon architecture, but also something that architecture
inflicts. In keeping with Walter Benjamin's formulation that there
is no document of civilization that is not also a document of
barbarism, the book offers "spatial violence" as another name for
"architecture" itself. This book was previously published as a
special issue of Architectural Theory Review.
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