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Reinhold Martin - The Urban Apparatus. Mediapolitics and the City.  - 9781517901196 - V9781517901196
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The Urban Apparatus. Mediapolitics and the City.

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Description for The Urban Apparatus. Mediapolitics and the City. Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: AMVD. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 139 x 215 x 15. Weight in Grams: 249.

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, The Urban Apparatus explores how the aesthetics of cities and their political economies overlap. In a series of ten essays, with a detailed theoretical introduction, 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?” 

The Urban Apparatus serves as an “urban” bookend to the architectural questions explored by Martin in his earlier book Utopia’s Ghost, and ultimately offers readers a way to think politically about urbanization.

Product Details

Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
248g
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9781517901196
SKU
V9781517901196
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About Reinhold Martin
Reinhold Martin is professor of architecture at Columbia University. He cofounded the journal Grey Room and is author of Utopia’s Ghost: Architecture and Postmodernism, Again (Minnesota, 2010). 

Reviews for The Urban Apparatus. Mediapolitics and the City.
"Reinhold Martin's work productively connects debates on architectural culture to fundamental questions related to the political economy of city-building, urbanism, and urbanization. His ideas are at once philosophically grounded, historically nuanced, spatially attuned, and political."—Neil Brenner, Harvard University "The Urban Apparatus offers a brilliant meditation on the new realities and experiences of the city in a fluid and rapidly changing global situation. Reinhold Martin explores an extraordinarily diverse set of objects in ways that are illuminating, original, and often deeply moving—all of which take on special urgency in our current national and geo-political climates."—Phillip E. Wegner, University of Florida

Goodreads reviews for The Urban Apparatus. Mediapolitics and the City.


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