Utopia's Ghost: Architecture and Postmodernism, Again

Utopia's Ghost: Architecture and Postmodernism, Again

by Reinhold Martin
ISBN-10:
0816669635
ISBN-13:
9780816669639
Pub. Date:
04/15/2010
Publisher:
University of Minnesota Press
ISBN-10:
0816669635
ISBN-13:
9780816669639
Pub. Date:
04/15/2010
Publisher:
University of Minnesota Press
Utopia's Ghost: Architecture and Postmodernism, Again

Utopia's Ghost: Architecture and Postmodernism, Again

by Reinhold Martin
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Overview

Architectural postmodernism had a significant impact on the broader development of postmodern thought: Utopia’s Ghost is a critical reconsideration of their relationship. Combining discourse analysis, historical reconstruction, and close readings of buildings, projects, and texts from the 1970s and 1980s, Reinhold Martin argues that retheorizing postmodern architecture gives us new insights into cultural postmodernism and its aftermath.
 
Much of today’s discussion has turned to the recovery of modernity, but Martin writes in the Introduction, “Simply to historicize postmodernism seems inadequate and, in many ways, premature.” Utopia’s Ghost connects architecture to current debates on biopolitics, neoliberalism, and corporate globalization as they are haunted by the problem of utopia. Exploring a series of concepts—territory, history, language, image, materiality, subjectivity, and architecture itself—Martin shows how they reorganize the cultural imaginary and shape a contemporary biopolitics that ultimately precludes utopian thought.
 
Written at the intersection of culture, politics, and the city, particularly in the context of corporate globalization, Utopia’s Ghost challenges dominant theoretical paradigms and opens new avenues for architectural scholarship and cultural analysis.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780816669639
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 04/15/2010
Pages: 248
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Reinhold Martin is associate professor of architecture in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University, where he directs the PhD program in architecture and the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture. He is a founding coeditor of the journal Grey Room, author of The Organizational Complex: Architecture, Media, and Corporate Space, and coauthor of Multi-National City: Architectural Itineraries.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments, Introduction: Architecture and Postmodernism, Again, 1. Territory: From the Inside, Out, 2. History: The Last War, 3. Language: Environment, c. 1973, 4. Image: Have We Ever Been Postmodern?, 5. Materiality: Mirrors, 6. Subjects: Mass Customization, 7. Architecture: Utopia’s Ghost, Notes, Publication History, Index
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