The Death of Home : Aura and Space in the Age of Digitalization.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ahmed Bahozde, Saladdin.

Series:

De Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences Series

De Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences Series ; v.26

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (220 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2024.

Summary:

Digital technology has revolutionized connectivity, but it has also overcome spatial obstacles that used to shield people from subjugating gazes and unlimited exercise of power. The home as an auratic space is dead, and this alienation has hindered our democratic capacities and created complex crises. The Death of Home aims to intellectually engage readers via enhancing spatial literacy to critically confront today’s crises.

Digital technology has revolutionized connectivity, but it has also overwhelmed spatial boundaries that used to shield people from subjugating gazes and unlimited exercise of power. The home as an auratic space is dead, and this alienation has hindered our social capacities creating complex political and sociopsychological crises. The Death of Home aims to intellectually engage readers through enhancing spatial literacy to critically confront today’s oppressive regimes of spatial production.

Contents:

Intro

Notes of Appreciation

Contents

Entrance

Part One: A Critical Theory of Social Space: Home and Aura

Chapter 1 The Philosophical Gate into the Present Work

Chapter 2 The Dialectics of Home

Chapter 3 Exile and the Struggle with the Unattainability of Home and the Impossibility of Art

Chapter 4 The Dialectics of the Gaze: Aura and a Philosophy of the Window

Part Two: Biopolitical Economy of Housing and The Production of Homelessness

Chapter 5 The Absolute and the Death of Home

Chapter 6 Fetishized Space and Disembodied Identities

Chapter 7 The Gaze of Power and De-housing: Biopolitical Economy of Homelessness

Chapter 8 Auracide and the Critical Theory of Social Space

Concluding Remarks

References

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

3-11-107846-9

OCLC:

1427225719