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Set against the background of a 'general crisis' that is
environmental, political and social, this book examines a series of
specific intersections between architecture and feminisms,
understood in the plural. The collected essays and projects that
make up the book follow transversal trajectories that criss-cross
between ecologies, economies and technologies, exploring specific
cases and positions in relation to the themes of the archive,
control, work and milieu. This collective intellectual labour can
be located amidst a worldwide depletion of material resources, a
hollowing out of political power and the degradation of constructed
and natural environments. Feminist positions suggest ways of
ethically coping with a world that is becoming increasingly
unstable and contested. The many voices gathered here are united by
the task of putting critical concepts and feminist design tools to
use in order to offer experimental approaches to the creation of a
more habitable world. Drawing inspiration from the active archives
of feminist precursors, existing and re-imagined, and by way of a
re-engagement in the histories, theories and projected futures of
critical feminist projects, the book presents a collection of
twenty-three essays and eight projects, with the aim of taking
stock of our current condition and re-engaging in our precarious
environment-worlds.
Set against the background of a 'general crisis' that is
environmental, political and social, this book examines a series of
specific intersections between architecture and feminisms,
understood in the plural. The collected essays and projects that
make up the book follow transversal trajectories that criss-cross
between ecologies, economies and technologies, exploring specific
cases and positions in relation to the themes of the archive,
control, work and milieu. This collective intellectual labour can
be located amidst a worldwide depletion of material resources, a
hollowing out of political power and the degradation of constructed
and natural environments. Feminist positions suggest ways of
ethically coping with a world that is becoming increasingly
unstable and contested. The many voices gathered here are united by
the task of putting critical concepts and feminist design tools to
use in order to offer experimental approaches to the creation of a
more habitable world. Drawing inspiration from the active archives
of feminist precursors, existing and re-imagined, and by way of a
re-engagement in the histories, theories and projected futures of
critical feminist projects, the book presents a collection of
twenty-three essays and eight projects, with the aim of taking
stock of our current condition and re-engaging in our precarious
environment-worlds.
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Deleuze and the City (Paperback)
Helene Frichot, Catharina Gabrielsson, Jonathan Metzger
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R884
R784
Discovery Miles 7 840
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The city as complex compound of cultural and natural forces and
flows is characterised in multifarious and contradictory ways. A
city is never just a transforming built environment of a particular
scale or global reputation, but located, specific, differentiated
and impossible to grasp in all its complexity. The 16 contributors
to this collection re-deploy conceptual tools of Deleuze and
Guattari, and demonstrate in many instances how these tools can be
altered and revised to meet the problematic urban fields in
question. This also means calling on the legacy of Deleuze and
Guattari by way of those thinkers and practitioners who follow
after, and who have augmented and altered their project. Deleuze
and the City asks what a city can do, how its human and non-human
relations can be made sufficiently durable, how we can make
ourselves worthy of our encounters in the city, how we might expand
and contract its influence, and participate in the formation of
affirmative rather than destructive subjective, social and
environmental ecologies.
Architecture and urbanism have contributed to one of the most
sweeping transformations of our times. Over the past four decades,
neoliberalism has been not only a dominant paradigm in politics but
a process of bricks and mortar in everyday life. Rather than to ask
what a neoliberal architecture looks like, or how architecture
represents neoliberalism, this volume examines the multivalent role
of architecture and urbanism in geographically variable yet
interconnected processes of neoliberal transformation across
scales-from China, Turkey, South Africa, Argentina, Mexico, the
United States, Britain, Sweden, and Czechoslovakia. Analyzing how
buildings and urban projects in different regions since the 1960s
have served in the implementation of concrete policies such as
privatization, fiscal reform, deregulation, state restructuring,
and the expansion of free trade, contributors reveal neoliberalism
as a process marked by historical contingency. Neoliberalism on the
Ground fundamentally reframes accepted narratives of both
neoliberalism and postmodernism by demonstrating how architecture
has articulated changing relationships between state, society, and
economy since the 1960s.
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