Nawratek Total Urban Mobilisation

Ernst Ju¨nger and the Post-Capitalist City
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-981-13-1093-5
Verlag: Springer Singapore
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 104 Seiten, eBook

In this book Krzysztof Nawratek explores the possibility of a post-capitalist city, and in so doing, reclaims and develops the idea of total mobilisation as originally formulated by Ernst Ju¨nger. Nawratek formulates the idea of ‘accumulation of agency’ the ability to act, to replace the logic of capital accumulation as a main driver of urban development. He argues that this ‘accumulation of agency’ operates already in contemporary cities, and should not be seen as essential element of capitalism, but as a conceptual gateway to a post-capitalist world.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nawratek, Krzysztof

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface.- Acknowledgements.- 1. Mobilising the Urban.- 2. Territory, Space, Place, and Beyond.- 3. The Spatiality of (Post-)Capitalism.- 4. The House and the City as Capitalist/Post-Capitalist Hybrids.- 5. Top-Down Revolutions. Negative and Positive Autonomy.- 6. 'The Horizon of the Whole' (Against Totalitarianism and Reductivism).- 7. Borders, Interfaces and Infrastructure.- 8. Nomadism and Partisanship.- 9. Assemblages, Series, and Empire.- 10. City of Agency.

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Krzysztof Nawratek is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Sheffield. He published City as a Political Idea (2011), Holes in the Whole: Introduction to the Urban Revolutions (2012), Radical Inclusivity: Architecture and Urbanism (2015), Urban Re-Industrialization (2017) as well as several papers and chapters in edited volumes.