Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Defining the lives of most the world's population, the question of 'the city' is one of the most urgent issues of our time. This volume gathers some of the most original thinkers in contemporary urban studies to how Deleuze and Guattari are essential for thinking through the landscapes that constitute 'the city' today.
Synopsis
The city as complex compound of cultural and natural forces and flows is characterised in multifarious and contradictory ways. A city is never just a transforming built environment of a particular scale or global reputation, but located, specific, differentiated and impossible to grasp in all its complexity.
The 16 contributors to this collection re-deploy conceptual tools of Deleuze and Guattari, and demonstrate in many instances how these tools can be altered and revised to meet the problematic urban fields in question. This also means calling on the legacy of Deleuze and Guattari by way of those thinkers and practitioners who follow after, and who have augmented and altered their project.
Deleuze and the City asks what a city can do, how its human and non-human relations can be made sufficiently durable, how we can make ourselves worthy of our encounters in the city, how we might expand and contract its influence, and participate in the formation of affirmative rather than destructive subjective, social and environmental ecologies.
Synopsis
Uses the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari to interrogate what cities can do
Defining the lives of a majority of the world's population, the question of 'the city' has risen to the fore as one the most urgent issues of our time - uniting concerns across the terrain of climate policies, global financing, localised struggles and multi-disciplinary research.
Deleuze and the City rests on a conviction that philosophy is crucially important for advancing knowledge on cities, and for allowing us to envisage new forms of urban life toward a more sustainable future. It gathers some of the most original thinkers and accomplished scholars in contemporary urban studies, showing how Deleuze and Guattari's philosophical project is essential for our thinking through the multi-scalar, uneven and contested landscapes that constitute 'the city' today.
Dispelling the old question of what the city is, this collection provides a nuanced mapping of situations emerging in concrete urban settings across the globe, ranging from the 'laboratory urbanism' of an Austrian ski resort and a 'sustainable' Swedish shopping mall to the 'urbicidal' refurbishments of Haifa.
Notes on Contributors
Ronnen Ben-Arie, Tel-Aviv University and Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel.
Marc Boumeester, AKI ArtEZ Academy for Art & Design, Netherlands.
Magnus Eriksson, Lund University, Sweden, University of Macerata, Italy and the Interactive Institute, Sweden.
Ignacio Far as, Technische Universit t M nchen, Germany.
H l ne Frichot, KTH School of Architecture, Sweden, and RMIT University, Australia.
Catharina Gabrielsson, KTH School of Architecture and Konstfack, Sweden.
Gary Genosko, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada.
Maria Hellstr m Reimer, Malm University and the Swedish Design Faculty for Design Research and Research Education, Sweden
Jean Hillier, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.
Stefan H hne, TU Berlin, Germany.
Louise Beltzung Horvath, Austrian Academy of Sciences and Vienna University of Technology, Austria.
Michele Lancione, University of Cambridge, UK.
Janet McGaw, University of Melbourne, Australia.
Markus Maicher, Vienna University of Technology, Austria.
Jonathan Metzger, KTH School of Architecture, Stockholm, Sweden.
Karl Palm s, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden.
Mark Purcell, University of Washington, USA.
Andrej Radman, TU Delft, Netherlands.
AbdouMaliq Simone, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany; Goldsmiths, University of London, UK; University of Cape Town, South Africa; Rujak Center for Urban Studies, Indonesia and University of Tarumanagara, Indonesia.
Fredrika Spindler, S dert rn University, Sweden.
Sven-Olov Wallenstein, S dert rn University, Sweden.
Synopsis
Defining the lives of a majority of the world's population, the question of 'the city' has risen to the fore as one the most urgent issues of our time - uniting concerns across the terrain of climate policies, global financing, localised struggles and multi-disciplinary research. Deleuze and the City rests on a conviction that philosophy is crucially important for advancing knowledge on cities, and for allowing us to envisage new forms of urban life toward a more sustainable future. It gathers some of the most original thinkers and accomplished scholars in contemporary urban studies, showing how Deleuze and Guattari's philosophical project is essential for our thinking through the multi-scalar, uneven and contested landscapes that constitute 'the city' today. Case studies range from the 'laboratory urbanism' of an Austrian ski resort and a 'sustainable' Swedish shopping mall to the 'urbicidal' refurbishments of Haifa.