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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spencer, Douglas, author.

Contributor:

ProQuest ebook central.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture and society.

Architecture--Political aspects.

Architecture.

Neoliberalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 213 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Neoliberalism is a project to remark us, and our world, according to a purely economic rationality. In societies where the logic of the market reigns unopposed we must fashion out 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 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, 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 farm at existence devoted to market imperatives. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction : Architecture, neoliberalism and the game of truth

Necessary ignorance: the art of neoliberal governmentality : Foucault and governmentality ; Neoliberalism, human capital and the entrepreneurial self ; Hayek, Polanyi and cybernetics ; Spontaneous orders and complex systems ; Neoliberalism as the 'form of our existence'

The spatial constitution of the neoliberal subject : Hamilton, Pollock and Kaprow ; THX 1138 and Alphaville ; The counterculture and the technical mentality ; Banham, Baudrillard and McLuhan

Architectural theory: from May '68 to the 'real' of the market : Post-theory and the post-political ; Architecture and Deleuze ; The new agenda for architecture ; DeLanda, LaTour and Luhman ; The real subsumption of theory

Labour theory: architecture, work and neoliberalism : Architecture and the image of labour ; Ubiquitous workspace ; Boltanski and Chiapello, Postone, and the thesis of 'immaterial labour' ; Zaha Hadid Architects and BMW Leipzig ; The urban diagram of the new factory ; Koolhaas, OMA and CCTV ; Architecture as infrastructure ; Circulation as labour and image

Festivals of circulation: neoliberal architectures of culture, commerce and education : The Pompidou as fun palace ; Crowd modelling ; Citizen-consumers: FOA's Meydan Retail Complex ; Student-entrepreneurs: the 'learning landscape' and the 'univers-city'

Neoliberalism and affect: architecture and the patterning of experience : Architecture and the affective turn ; Jameson, architecture and the totality ; Aesthetics, aisthesis and cognition ; Pattern recognition: the 'period eye' of neoliberalism

Conclusion : The necessity of critique.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781472581549

1472581547

Publisher Number:

99984979055

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