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The Political Unconscious of Architecture - Re-opening Jameson's Narrative (Hardcover, New Ed)
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The Political Unconscious of Architecture - Re-opening Jameson's Narrative (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Thirty years have passed since eminent cultural and literary critic
Fredric Jameson wrote his classic work, The Political Unconscious:
Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act, in which he insisted that
'there is nothing that is not social and historical - indeed, that
everything is "in the last analysis" political'. Bringing together
a team of leading scholars including Slavoj Zizek, Joan Ockman,
Jane Rendell, and Kojin Karatani, this book critically examines the
important contribution made by Jameson to the radical critique of
architecture over this period, highlighting its continued
importance to contemporary architecture discourse. Jameson's notion
of the 'political unconscious' represents one of the most powerful
notions in the link between aesthetics and politics in contemporary
discourse. Taking this, along with other key concepts from Jameson,
as the basis for its chapters, this anthology asks questions such
as: Is architecture a place to stage 'class struggle'?, How can
architecture act against the conditions that 'affirmatively'
produce it? What does 'the critical', and 'the negative', mean in
the discourse of architecture? and, How do we prevent architecture
from participating in the reproduction of the cultural logic of
late capitalism? This book breaks new ground in architectural
criticism and offers insights into the interrelationships between
politics, culture, space, and architecture and, in doing so, it
acts as a counter-balast to the current trend in architectural
research where a general aestheticization dominates the discourse.
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