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Architecture Post Mortem - The Diastolic Architecture of Decline, Dystopia, and Death (Paperback, New Ed)
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Architecture Post Mortem - The Diastolic Architecture of Decline, Dystopia, and Death (Paperback, New Ed)
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Architecture Post Mortem surveys architecture's encounter with
death, decline, and ruination following late capitalism. As the
world moves closer to an economic abyss that many perceive to be
the death of capital, contraction and crisis are no longer mere
phases of normal market fluctuations, but rather the irruption of
the unconscious of ideology itself. Post mortem is that historical
moment wherein architecture's symbolic contract with capital is put
on stage, naked to all. Architecture is not irrelevant to fiscal
and political contagion as is commonly believed; it is the victim
and penetrating analytical agent of the current crisis. As the very
apparatus for modernity's guilt and unfulfilled drives-modernity's
debt-architecture is that ideological element that functions as a
master signifier of its own destruction, ordering all other
signifiers and modes of signification beneath it. It is under these
conditions that architecture theory has retreated to an 'Alamo' of
history, a final desert outpost where history has been asked to
transcend itself. For architecture's hoped-for utopia always
involves an apocalypse. This timely collection of essays
reformulates architecture's relation to modernity via the
operational death-drive: architecture is but a passage between life
and death. This collection includes essays by Kazi K. Ashraf, David
Bertolini, Simone Brott, Peggy Deamer, Didem Ekici, Paul Emmons,
Donald Kunze, Todd McGowan, Gevork Hartoonian, Nadir Lahiji, Erika
Naginski, and Dennis Maher.
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