The Architecture of Neoliberalism

How Contemporary Architecture Became an Instrument of Control and Compliance

Douglas Spencer (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

232 Seiten

2016
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-4725-8151-8 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

Introduction: Architecture, Neoliberalism and the Game of Truth

1. The Art of Neoliberal Governmentality

2. The Spatial Constitution of the Neoliberal Subject

3. Architecture Theory: From May '68 to the 'Real' of the Market

4. Labour Theory: Architecture, Work and Neoliberalism

5. Festivals of Circulation: Neoliberal Architectures of Culture, Commerce and Eduction

6. Neoliberalism and Effect: Architecture and the Patterning of Experience

Conclusion: The Necessity of Critique

Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	20.10.2016
Zusatzinfo	30 B&W illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	394 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
Themenwelt	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	1-4725-8151-2 / 1472581512
ISBN-13	978-1-4725-8151-8 / 9781472581518
Zustand	Neuware