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The urban apparatus : mediapolitics and the city

'The Urban Apparatus' analyzes urbanization and the contemporary city in aesthetic, socioeconomic, and mediapolitical terms. Its main argument is that understanding the city as infrastructure (i.e. hardware in all senses) reveals the category of the urban, and of urbanization, to be a way...

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Hovedforfatter: Martin, Reinhold (Author)
Format: Online Resource Bog
Sprog:English
Udgivet: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2017-2016
Online adgang:http://kunst.proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/fid/upso-ebooks-art/dx.doi.org/10.5749/minnesota/9781517901189.001.0001
Forfatter Kommentarer:Reinhold Martin
E-Book Packages:Oxford University Press : Minnesota Scholarship Online / Architecture
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Summary:'The Urban Apparatus' analyzes urbanization and the contemporary city in aesthetic, socioeconomic, and mediapolitical terms. Its main argument is that understanding the city as infrastructure (i.e. hardware in all senses) reveals the category of the urban, and of urbanization, to be a way of imparting functional, aesthetic, and cognitive order to a contradictory, doubly-bound neoliberal regime, rather than an empirical or properly theoretical description of that regime.
Emne beskrivelse:Previously issued in print: 2016.. - Includes bibliographical references and index
Fysisk beskrivelse:Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
ISBN:9781452955391