The urban apparatus : mediapolitics and the city / Reinhold Martin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Martin, Reinhold, 1964- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns.

Physical Description:

xii, 193 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2016]

Summary:

Urbanization is a system of power and knowledge, and today's city functions through the expansive material infrastructures of the urban order. In The Urban Apparatus, Reinhold Martin analyzes urbanization and the contemporary city in aesthetic, socioeconomic, and mediapolitical terms. He argues that understanding the city as infrastructure reveals urbanization to be a way of imparting functional, aesthetic, and cognitive order to a contradictory, doubly bound neoliberal regime. Blending critical philosophy, political theory, and media theory, Martin explores questions related to urban life, drawn from a wide range of global topics-from the fiscal crisis in Detroit to speculative development in Mumbai to the landscape of Mars, from discussions of race and the environment to housing and economic inequality. Each essay proposes a particular "mediator" (or a material complex) that is shaped by imaginative practices, each answering the question "What is a city, today?". Book jacket.

Contents:

City, country, world

Financial imaginaries

The thing about cities

Public and common(s)

Horizons of thought

Polis = Oikos

Notes on the housing question

Broken windows

Beijing in Detroit

Infrastructure and mediapolitics.

Notes:

Portions previously published in various sources.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781517901189

1517901189

9781517901196

1517901197

OCLC:

949828489