ABSTRACT

Written by a team of renowned contributors and carefully edited to address the themes laid out by the editors in their introduction, the book includes theoretical issues concerning the questions of aesthetics and politics and addresses city and urban strategies within the general critique of the "post-political". By focusing on specific case studies from Warsaw, Barcelona, Dubai, Tokyo and many more the book consolidates the contributions of a diverse group of academics, architects and critics from Europe, the Middle East and America.

This collection fills the gap in the existing literature on the relation between politics and aesthetics, and its implications for the theoretical discourse of architecture today. In summary, this book provides a response to the predominant de-politicization in academic discourse and is an attempt to re-claim the abandoned critical project in architecture.

chapter |8 pages

Introduction

The critical project and the post-political suspension of politics

part I|58 pages

Aesthetics, politics, and architecture

chapter 2|10 pages

Modern Democracy and Aesthetic Revolution in the Work of Rancière

Reflections on historical causality 1

chapter 3|12 pages

Unfaithful Reflections

Re-actualizing Benjamin's aestheticism thesis

part II|82 pages

The political and the critique of architecture

chapter 6|27 pages

Architecture as Such

Notes on generic(ness) and labor sans phrase

chapter 8|25 pages

Metalepsis of the Site of Exception

part III|62 pages

The post-political and contemporary urbanism

chapter 9|16 pages

The Architecture of Managerialism

OMA, CCTV, and the post-political

chapter 10|13 pages

Zero Points

Urban space and the political subject

chapter 11|18 pages

To Fill the Earth

Architecture in a spaceless universe

chapter 12|13 pages

From Post-Political to Agonistic

Warsaw urban space since 1989

chapter |3 pages

Afterwor(l)d