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Diagrams of Power in Benjamin and Foucault - The Recluse of Architecture (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
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Diagrams of Power in Benjamin and Foucault - The Recluse of Architecture (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
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This book's overarching premise is that discussion and critique in
the discourses of architecture and urbanism have their primary
focus on engagements with form, particularly in the sense of the
question as to what planning and architecture signify with respect
to the forms they take, and how their meanings or content (what is
"contained") is considered in relation to form-as-container. While
significant critical work in these disciplines has been published
over the past 20 years that engages pertinently with the writings
of Walter Benjamin and Michel Foucault, there has been no address
to the co-incidence in the work of Benjamin and Foucault of an
architectural figure that is pivotal to each of their discussions
of the emergence of modernity: The arcade for Benjamin and the
panoptic prison for Foucault have a parallel role. In Foucault's
terms, panopticism is a "diagram of power." The parallel, for
Benjamin, would be his understanding of "constellation." In more
recent architectural writings, the notion of the diagram has
emerged as a key motif. Yet, and in as much as it supposedly
relates to aspects of the work of Foucault, along with Gilles
Deleuze, this notion of "diagram" amounts, for the most part, to a
thinly veiled reinstatement of geometry-as-idea. This book
redresses the emphasis given to form within the cultural philosophy
of modernity and-particularly with respect to architecture and
urbanism-inflects on the agency of force that opens a reading of
their productive capacities as technologies of power. It is
relevant to students and scholars in poststructuralist critical
theory, architecture, and urban studies. "This is a book about
Foucault and Benjamin and it is grounded in a deep knowledge of and
reflection upon their works, but it is also underpinned by an
impressive erudition. There are reflections on Hegel and Heidegger
(central to the author) and Derrida, along with Kierkegaard, and
others. This leads to a rich and suggestive discussion ... in
staging a spatial-architectural-political conversation between
Foucault and Benjamin." - Anonymous Reviewer "Mark Jackson's
Diagrams of Power in Benjamin and Foucault, The Recluse of
Architecture juxtaposes and interrogates its two leading actors so
as to draw from and through them a theory of architecture, which is
inseparable from its recluse. In doing so it elaborates a series of
complex connections with their various interlocutors and
inspirations, Hegel, Heidegger, Derrida, the Kabbalah, Agamben,
allegory, Marx, Deleuze, Klossowski, tragedy, capitalism,
modernity, and so on. The list is long and impressive. This is not
only done with an extremely high degree of scholarship, but is
presented in a light, lucid and very compelling manner in a voice
both personal and authoritative. The recluse is the figure of
mimesis itself, the appearance of a withdrawal, always already a
ruin. This book not only contributes a highly astute reading of its
philosophical objects, but it enacts the ontology of the recluse
through its own unfolding, simultaneously revealing and withholding
the meaning of architecture 'as such', so that we not only
understand its meaning, but feel the pulsing differential of the
book's object as if it were alive within us." - Stephen Zepke,
Independent Researcher, Vienna
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