Architecture of Neoliberalism

How Contemporary Architecture Became an Instrument of Control and Compliance

AvDouglas Spencer

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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The Architecture of Neoliberalism pursues an uncompromising critique of the neoliberal turn in contemporary architecture. This book reveals how a self-styled parametric and post-critical architecture serves mechanisms of control and compliance while promoting itself, at the same time, as progressive. Spencer's incisive analysis of the architecture and writings of figures such as Zaha Hadid, Patrik Schumacher, Rem Koolhaas, and Greg Lynn shows them to be in thrall to the same notions of liberty as are propounded in neoliberal thought. Analysing architectural projects in the fields of education, consumption and labour, The Architecture of Neoliberalism examines the part played by contemporary architecture in refashioning human subjects into the compliant figures - student-entrepreneurs, citizen-consumers and team-workers - requisite to the universal implementation of a form of existence devoted to market imperatives.

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Utgivningsdatum:2016-10-20
Mått:156 x 234 x 17 mm
Vikt:499 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:232
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781472581525

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Douglas Spencer teaches and writes on critical theories of architecture, landscape and urbanism. A regular contributor to Radical Philosophy, he has also written chapters for collections such as Architecture Against the Post-Political (2014), Landscape and Agency (2016) and This Thing Called Theory (2016). He has published numerous essays in journals such The Journal of Architecture, AD, AA Files, New Geographies, Volume and Praznine. He teaches at the AA’s Graduate School of Design at the Architectural Association and at the University of Westminster, London.

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Spencer draws a direct intellectual lineage from neoliberalism’s original thinkers through the unlikely corridors of late-20th-century countercultural and avant-garde thought, all the way into the glistening hallways of today’s most acclaimed contemporary architectural firms.

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Introduction: Architecture, Neoliberalism and the Game of Truth1. The Art of Neoliberal Governmentality2. The Spatial Constitution of the Neoliberal Subject3. Architecture Theory: From May '68 to the 'Real' of the Market4. Labour Theory: Architecture, Work and Neoliberalism5. Festivals of Circulation: Neoliberal Architectures of Culture, Commerce and Eduction6. Neoliberalism and Effect: Architecture and the Patterning of ExperienceConclusion: The Necessity of CritiqueBibliography