Bretz, Simone; Et AlBiblio.com
Brott, SimoneBiblio.com
Architecture for a Free Subjectivity : Deleuze and Guattari At the Horizon of the Real
2011réf. 95921Ashgate. New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 150 pp. -- with a bonus offer--; Architecture for a Free Subjectivity reformulates the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze's model of subjectivity for architecture by surveying the prolific effects of architectural encounter and the spaces that figure in them. For Deleuze and his Lacanian collaborator Felix Guattari subjectivity does not refer to a person but to the potential for and event of matter becoming subject and the myriad ways for this to take place. By extension this book theorizes architecture as a self-actuating or creative agency for the liberation of purely "impersonal effects." Imagine a chemical reaction a riot in the banlieues indeed a walk through a city. Simone Brott declares that the architectural object does not merely take part in the production of subjectivity but that it constitutes its own. This book is to date the only attempt to develop Deleuze's philosophy of subjectivity in singularly architectural terms. Through a screening of modern and postmodern American and European works this provocative volume draws the reader into a close encounter with architectural interiors film scenes and other arrangements while interrogating the discourses of subjectivity surrounding them and the evacuation of the subject in the contemporary discussion. The impersonal effects of architecture radically changes the methodology just as it reimagines architectural subjectivity for the twenty-first century. . 2011. 1409419959 . Ashgate hardcover
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