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Architecture or Techno-Utopia: Politics after Modernism Felicity D. Scott
Publisher: MIT Press

Week in a debate hosted at Strata. Nov 23, 2013 - His maps drew deeply from his own personal experience of urban modernism, a visceral reactions to city planning, and his rediscovery of political identity in the streets. Oct 19, 2011 - Like so many things with Lloyd's, you can just tick off the political-economic resonances - the oil boom that kept Thatcherism secure in its confrontations with the unions providing inadvertent inspiration for the aesthetic of the City itself at the exact point it was let off the leash. Eisenman Scott uses the term “fiction” in a piece from October, which also appears in her book Architecture or Techno-Utopia. Mar 9, 2010 - Now space and time destroy this utopian centrality." Every paradise is a Geometric and planar, horizontal and rational, from Malevich to Mondrian, the Grid embodied the state of the modernist political-technological art, which was a disciplinary art. €� Ari Gesher (@alephbass) January He spent the 1950s telling politicians, union leaders, and anyone else who would listen that robots were the slave labor of the future, and that free men can't compete with slaves for jobs. Apr 30, 2013 - By releasing the supposed laws of nature immanent in unregulated capitalism, the information technologies will allegedly lead to the birth of a new race of 'post-humans': cyborg capitalist freed from the restrictions of the flesh.1 higher and higher degrees of technotronic integration into the human being and its production of subjectivity, then the debate should not be something that is kept on the sidelines, relegated to the lunatic fringe and the utopian dreamers. Dec 10, 2012 - The little known, but essential criticism of Brasilia, the planned city Niemeyer, a lifelong Communist, started to design in 1957 is that no workers' housing was built in the peoples' Utopia then, or now. Feb 23, 2014 - Each phase has been accompanied by a utopian rethinking of art's relationship to the social and of its political potential – manifested in a reconsideration of the ways in which art is produced, consumed and debated.3 video activism, use of the internet) and the construction of activist spaces (squatted houses, activist camps or any other attempt at a TAZ).9 These enclaves sink their roots into the magma of the counterculture which has exploded since the 1960s. Where today a political regime establishes an official cultural policy, it is for the sake of demagogy. The 'Beaubourg' is often considered to be a '60s dream built, Joan Littlewood and Cedric Price's adaptable, anti-architectural 'Fun Palace' completed and then named after an anti-68 Gaullist. Apr 30, 2009 - BOOK REVIEWS Gevork Hartoonian Joseph Rykwert, The Judicious Eye: Architecture Against the Other Arts Alison Fisher Felicity D. May 1, 2009 - “Fiction” also appears as a more specifically critical strategy in post-war writings; eg. Http://t.co/kPc8tfp17e cc /@jstogdill. Peter Eisenman's That is, the critical architect is one who builds these representations of architecture as a fiction, versus fictional representations of architecture as reality (eg. Jun 26, 2011 - On one hand the melting of national boundaries and proactive deframings under the pressure of economic ideologies in Europe and North America (NAFTA and the EU), and on the other a Balkanization of Europe and Africa from political and .. The planned city is The modernist architect Oscar Niemeyer, 1904-2012, who built an urban theory for Brazil based on his Stalinist, and not Marxist, principles. Dec 8, 2006 - But it was only little more than thirty years ago that the great cultural monolith of modernism began to erode, making way for the pluralistic onslaught of postmodernism. Various strains of modernist or contemporary minimalist architecture). Techno-utopian vision; bully for the economy, still not clear on jobs and wealth distribution. This post was lightly edited on 2/6/14 for clarity. Dec 30, 2012 - Architecture or Techno-utopia: Politics After Modernism Felicity D.