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Mediators: Aesthetics, Politics, and the City
Reinhold Martin
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Paperback. Series: Forerunners: Ideas First. Num Pages: 60 pages. BIC Classification: AM; HPN; JFSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 173 x 124 x 8. Weight in Grams: 77.
Reinhold Martin’s Mediators is a series of linked meditations on the globalized city. Focusing on infrastructural, technical, and social systems, Martin explores how the aesthetics and the political economy of cities overlap and interact. He discusses a range of subjects, including the architecture of finance written into urban policy, regimes of enumeration that remix city and country, fictional ecologies that rewrite biopolitics, the ruins of socialism strewn amid the transnational commons, and memories of revolution stored in everyday urban hardware. For Martin, these mediators—the objects, processes, and imaginaries from which these phenomena emerge—serve to explain disparate fragments of a global ... Read more
Reinhold Martin’s Mediators is a series of linked meditations on the globalized city. Focusing on infrastructural, technical, and social systems, Martin explores how the aesthetics and the political economy of cities overlap and interact. He discusses a range of subjects, including the architecture of finance written into urban policy, regimes of enumeration that remix city and country, fictional ecologies that rewrite biopolitics, the ruins of socialism strewn amid the transnational commons, and memories of revolution stored in everyday urban hardware. For Martin, these mediators—the objects, processes, and imaginaries from which these phenomena emerge—serve to explain disparate fragments of a global ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
60
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816696871
SKU
V9780816696871
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About Reinhold Martin
Reinhold Martin is professor of architecture in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University, where he directs the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture and is a member of the Committee on Global Thought.
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