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The Ethics of a Potential Urbanism

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The Ethics of a Potential Urbanism book

Critical encounters between Giorgio Agamben and architecture

The Ethics of a Potential Urbanism

DOI link for The Ethics of a Potential Urbanism

The Ethics of a Potential Urbanism book

Critical encounters between Giorgio Agamben and architecture
ByCamillo Boano
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2016
eBook Published 25 November 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315542218
Pages 202 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315542218
SubjectsBuilt Environment, Humanities
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Boano, C. (2017). The Ethics of a Potential Urbanism. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315542218

The Ethics of a Potential Urbanism explores the possible and potential relevance of Giorgio Agamben’s political thoughts and writings for the theory and the practice of architecture and urban design. It sketches out the potentiality of Agamben’s politics, which can affect change in current architectural and design discourses. The book investigates the possibility of an inoperative architecture, as an ethical shift for a different practice, just a little bit different, but able to deactivate the sociospatial dispositive and mobilize a new theory and a new project for the urban now to come. This particular reading from Agamben’s oeuvre suggests a destituent mode of both thinking and practicing of architecture and urbanism that could possibly redeem them from their social emptiness, cultural irrelevance, economic reductionism and proto-avant-garde extravagance, contributing to a renewed critical ‘encounter’ with architecture’s aesthetic-political function.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|10 pages

Introduction: An architecture inseparable from its form

part |2 pages

Part I Agamben’s burning house

chapter 2|15 pages

Tracing the complex encounters between space, architecture and art

chapter 3|18 pages

Literal and artistic potential common grounds

chapter 4|21 pages

The taking place of possible inoperative encounters

part |2 pages

Part II Giorgio Agamben’s oeuvre

chapter 5|12 pages

Earlier works: The Man Without Content and Stanzas

chapter 6|5 pages

The coming politics and the question of potentiality

chapter 7|25 pages

The Homo Sacer project

part |2 pages

Part III Towards an inoperative architecture

chapter 8|9 pages

Paradigms and dispositives

chapter 9|4 pages

Profanation

chapter 10|9 pages

Potentialities

chapter 11|15 pages

Inoperativity

chapter 12|6 pages

Use

chapter 13|19 pages

Abandoning the project: The possibility for a ‘whatever architecture’

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