The Architecture of Neoliberalism pursues an uncompromising critique of the neoliberal turn in contemporary architecture. This book reveals how a self-styled parametric and post-critical architecture serves mechanisms of control and compliance while promoting itself, at the same time, as progressive. Spencer's incisive analysis of the architecture and writings of figures such as Zaha Hadid, Patrik Schumacher, Rem Koolhaas, and Greg Lynn shows them to be in thrall to the same notions of liberty as are propounded in neoliberal thought.
Analysing architectural projects in the fields of education, consumption and labour, The Architecture of Neoliberalism examines the part played by contemporary architecture in refashioning human subjects into the compliant figures - student-entrepreneurs, citizen-consumers and team-workers - requisite to the universal implementation of a form of existence devoted to market imperatives.
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The Architecture of Neoliberalism
How Contemporary Architecture Became an Instrument of Control and Compliance
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How Contemporary Architecture Became an Instrument of Control and Compliance
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Architecture
of
Neoliberalism
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construction
of
new
relationships
between
the
subject
and
its
environment
was
supposed
to
promise
the
experience
of
liberation.
In
effect,
and
sometimes
by
design,
though,
the
new
environmental
spacing
of
the
subject
had
a
good
deal
in
common
with
the
tenets
and
agendas
of
neoliberalism.
It
has
also
come
to
constitute
a
certain
doxa
through
which
architectural
culture
has,
of
late,
staked
its
claims
to
being
progressive.
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Introduction: Architecture, Neoliberalism and the Game of Truth
- Chapter 1 Necessary Ignorance: The Art of Neoliberal Governmentality
- Chapter 2 The Spatial Constitution of the Neoliberal Subject
- Chapter 3 Architectural Theory: From May 68 to the ‘Real’ of the Market
- Chapter 4 Labour Theory: Architecture, Work and Neoliberalism
- Chapter 5 Festivals of Circulation: Neoliberal Architectures of Culture, Commerce and Education
- Chapter 6 Neoliberalism and Affect: Architecture and the Patterning of Experience
- Conclusion: The Necessity of Critique
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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