ABSTRACT
A twofold return underpins the philosophical inquiry in this work: A return to Marx and a return to Critique. The post-1960s discourse of architecture in the academy never offered a radical conception of critique or any systematic reading of Marx. A radical critique must be taken up at the intersection of philosophy and political theory and that will be attempted in this work. This Apologue lays the ground for advancing the principles of ‘Marxian Critique’ towards the critique of architecture. It provides the key elements of argument and theoretical–conceptual categories that will be developed in the subsequent chapters. The central argument of the book is that architecture in liberal capitalist modernity is haunted by specters of Revolution that it conjures away. In capitalist modernity, as will be explained, a radical analysis of architecture must be taken up in relation to the concept of Revolution. This relation is not self-evident. This introduction will give an overview of this relation, leading to the central thesis that ‘Revolution is critique of architecture’.
