Deleuze and the city / edited by Hélène Frichot, Catharina Gabrielsson and Jonathan Metzger.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Frichot, Hélène, editor.

Gabrielsson, Catharina, editor.

Metzger, Jonathan, 1978- editor.

Series:

Deleuze connections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995.

Deleuze, Gilles.

City planning--Philosophy.

City planning.

Architecture--Philosophy.

Architecture.

City and town life--Philosophy.

City and town life.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

vi, 259 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2016]

Summary:

"Uses the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari to interrogate what cities can do. Defining the lives of a majority of the world's population, the question of 'the city' has risen to the fore as one the most urgent issues of our time - uniting concerns across the terrain of climate policies, global financing, localised struggles and multi-disciplinary research. Deleuze and the City rests on a conviction that philosophy is crucially important for advancing knowledge on cities, and for allowing us to envisage new forms of urban life toward a more sustainable future. It gathers some of the most original thinkers and accomplished scholars in contemporary urban studies, showing how Deleuze and Guattari's philosophical project is essential for our thinking through the multi-scalar, uneven and contested landscapes that constitute 'the city' today. Dispelling the old question of what the city is, this collection provides a nuanced mapping of situations emerging in concrete urban settings across the globe, ranging from the 'laboratory urbanism' of an Austrian ski resort and a 'sustainable' Swedish shopping mall to the 'urbicidal' refurbishments of Haifa."-- Punlisher's website.

Contents:

Introduction: What a City Can Do / Hélène Frichot, Catharina Gabrielsson and Jonathan Metzger

1. Becoming-Other: New Orleans from a Deleuzian Perspective / Fredrika Spindler

2. Humans as Vectors and Intensities: Becoming Urban in Berlin and New York City / Ignacio Farías and Stefan Höhne

3. Rethinking the City as a Body without Organs / Louise Beltung Horvath and Markus Maicher

4. The Impredicative City, or What Can a Boston Square Do? / Marc Boumeester and Andrej Radman

5. Laboratory Urbanism in Schladming / Magnus Eriksson and Karl Palmås

6. Never Believe That the City Will Suffice to Save Us! Stockholm Gentri-Fictions / Hélène Frichot and Jonathan Metzger

7. Urban Democracy Beyond Deleuze and Guattari / Mark Purcell

8. Genealogy of Capital and the City: CERFI, Deleuze and Guattari / Sven-Olov Wallenstein

9. Deterritorialising the Face of the City: How Treponema pallidum Planned Melbourne / Jean Hillier

10. The City and 'the Homeless': Machinic Subjects / Michele Lancione

11. Cut-Make-and-Trim: Fast Fashion Urbanity in the Residues of Rana Plaza / Maria Hellström Reimer

12. The Haifa Urban Destruction Machine / Ronnen Ben-Arie

13. Imagining Portland's Future Past: Lessons from Indigenous Placemaking in a Colonial City / Janet McGaw

14. Folded Ground: Escape from Cape Town / Catharina Gabrielsson

15. Sociability and Endurance in Jakarta / AbdouMaliq Simone

Postscript: For an Urban Machinic Ecology / Gary Genosko.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

1474407595

9781474407595

9781474407588

1474407587

OCLC:

914326113