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Architecture of Neoliberalism : How Contemporary Architecture Became an Instrument of Control and Compliance by Douglas Spencer (2023, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-10135037590X
ISBN-139781350375901
eBay Product ID (ePID)20060623605
Product Key Features
Number of Pages232 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameArchitecture of Neoliberalism : How Contemporary Architecture Became an Instrument of Control and Compliance
SubjectHistory / Contemporary (1945-), General, Criticism, Political Ideologies / Conservatism & Liberalism
Publication Year2023
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaPolitical Science, Architecture
AuthorDouglas Spencer
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.5 in
Item Weight14.1 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
Dewey Edition23
Reviews"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." -- Los Angeles Review of Books "This book marks a milestone in architectural criticism, and the questions it addresses could not be more important or urgent ... Its bold, unflinching description of architecture's complicity with the powers that be makes it an indispensable reference for all those concerned with the social and political meaning of their work," -- Journal of Architectural Education " The Architecture of Neoliberalism is a devastating portrait of contemporary architecture as the phantasmagoria of neoliberal capitalism. Spencer deftly deconstructs the current architectural ideology as a melange of counter-cultural tropes and vitalist celebrations of flexibility, empowerment, spontaneity, and the market as the final arbiter of freedom. The result is a powerful plea for critique in the face of the architectural prophets who proclaim 'there is no alternative'." -- Benjamin Noys, Professor of Critical Theory, University of Chichester, UK ""Neoliberalism" is commonly used as an epithet today to denounce a late-capitalist architecture in cahoots with the forces of real estate development and the marketplace. Douglas Spencer is the first to provide a detailed history of this term and to analyze its modes of operation, its architectural expressions, and its ideological subterfuges. An absolutely timely, lucid, important critique." -- Joan Ockman, Distinguished Senior Fellow, University of Pennsylvania School of Design, USA "This book marks a milestone in architectural criticism, and the questions it addresses could not be more important or urgent." -- JAE (Journal of Architectural Education), The Architecture of Neoliberalism is a devastating portrait of contemporary architecture as the phantasmagoria of neoliberal capitalism. Spencer deftly deconstructs the current architectural ideology as a melange of counter-cultural tropes and vitalist celebrations of flexibility, empowerment, spontaneity, and the market as the final arbiter of freedom. The result is a powerful plea for critique in the face of the architectural prophets who proclaim 'there is no alternative'.
TitleLeadingThe
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal720.103
Table Of ContentIntroduction: 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
SynopsisNeoliberalism is a project to remake us, and our world, according to a purely economic rationality. In societies where the logic of the market reigns unopposed we must fashion our lives as entrepreneurial endeavours. We must be networked, in constant circulation, opportunistic. The Architecture of Neoliberalism pursues an uncompromising critique of architecture's part in this neoliberal turn. This book reveals how a self-styled parametric, post-critical and projective architecture serves mechanisms of control and compliance while promoting itself as progressive. Spencer's incisive analysis of the architecture and writings of figures such as Zaha Hadid, Patrik Schumacher, Rem Koolhaas, and Greg Lynn and Alejandro Zaera-Polo 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 of a form of existence devoted to market imperatives., 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.
LC Classification NumberNA2543.S6S6427 2023
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