Biopolitics and the Emergence of Modern Architecture - Softcover

Wallenstein, Sven-Olov

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1616891114 ISBN 13: 9781616891114

Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press, 2012

Synopsis

Biopolitics and the Emergence of Modern Architecture concerns the dissolution of the classical paradigm of architecture as imitative form in the context of the French Enlightenment, and analyzes the emergence of a new logic of architecture based on a biopolitical process of subject formation. Published shortly after the release of the first English translation of Foucault's The Birth of Biopolitics, this is the first volume that specifically relates the biopolitical concept to architecture.

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About the Author:

Sven-Olov Wallenstein teaches philosophy at the University College of Södertörn and architectural theory at the Royal Institute of Technology, both in Stockholm. He is the editor-in-chief of SITE (www.sitemagazine.net), the author of several books and essays on contemporary art, philosophy, and aesthetics, and the translator of works by Kant, Frege, Husserl, Heidegger, Levinas, Derrida, and Deleuze. A brilliant and eloquent younger intellectual whose recent books include Bildstrider: Föreläsningar om estetisk teori (Image Wars: Lectures on Aesthetic Theory, 2001), Den sista bilden: det moderna måleriets kriser och förvandlingar (The Last Image: Crises and Transformations of Modern Painting, 2002), and Den moderna arkitekturens filosofier (The Philosophies of Modern Architecture, 2004), as well as Swedish translations of Immanuel Kant's, Critique of Judgment (2003) and Gilles Deleuze's, The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque (2004), Wallenstein deserves to be known by an American architectural readership.

About this edition

• Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1616891114
• ISBN 13: 9781616891114
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96