The architecture of neoliberalism : how contemporary architecture became an instrument of control and compliance / Douglas Spencer.

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Spencer, Douglas [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.
Description
xiv, 213 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

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    "Neoliberalism 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 endeavors. 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 projection architecture serves mechanisms of control and compliance while promoting itself as progressive."--Provided by publisher.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Introduction: Architecture, Neoliberalism and the Game of Truth
    • Necessary Ignorance: The Art of Neoliberal Governmentality
    • The Spatial Constitution of the Neoliberal Subject
    • Architecture Theory: From May '68 to the 'Real' of the Market
    • Labour Theory: Architecture, Work and Neoliberalism
    • Festivals of Circulation: Neoliberal Architectures of Culture, Commerce and Eduction
    • Neoliberalism and Affect: Architecture and the Patterning of Experience
    • Conclusion: The Necessity of Critique.
    ISBN
    • 9781472581525 ((hardback))
    • 1472581520 ((hardback))
    • 9781472581518 ((paperback))
    • 1472581512 ((paperback))
    LCCN
    2016009047
    OCLC
    926061799
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