The Architecture of Phantasmagoria: Specters of the City - Couverture rigide

Andreotti, Libero; Lahiji, Nadir

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 113890077X ISBN 13 : 9781138900776

Editeur : Routledge, 2016

Synopsis

In a time of mass-mediated modernity, the city becomes, almost by definition, a constitutively 'mediated' city. Today, more than ever before, the omnipresence of media in every sphere of culture is creating a new urban ontology, saturating, fracturing, and exacerbating the manifold experience of city life. The authors describe this condition as one of 'hyper-mediation' - a qualitatively new phase in the city's historical evolution. The concept of phantasmagoria has pride of place in their study; using it as an all-embracing explanatory framework, they explore its meanings as a critical category to understand the culture, and the architecture, of the contemporary city.

Andreotti and Lahiji argue that any account of architecture that does not include understanding the role and function of media and its impact on the city in the present 'tele-technological-capitalist' society is fundamentally flawed and incomplete. Their approach moves from Walter Benjamin, through the concepts of phantasmagoria and of media - as theorized also by Theodor Adorno, Siegfried Kracauer, and a new generation of contemporary critics - towards a new socio-critical and aesthetic analysis of the mediated space of the contemporary city.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Libero Andreotti is a Professor of Architecture at Georgia Tech, USA.

Nadir Lahiji is an Adjunct Faculty at the University of Canberra, Australia.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 113890077X
• ISBN 13: 9781138900776
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 222
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