Ethics of a Potential Urbanism

Name: Ethics of a Potential Urbanism
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

The Ethics of a Potential Urbanism explores the possible and potential relevance of Giorgio Agamben\u2019s political thoughts and writings for the theory and the practice of architecture and urban design. It sketches out the potentiality of Agamben\u2019s politics, which can affect change in current architectural and design discourses. The book investigates the possibility of an inoperative architecture, as an ethical shift for a different practice, just a little bit different, but able to deactivate the sociospatial dispositive and mobilize a new theory and a new project for the urban now to come. This particular reading from Agamben\u2019s oeuvre suggests a destituent mode of both thinking and practicing of architecture and urbanism that could possibly redeem them from their social emptiness, cultural irrelevance, economic reductionism and proto-avant-garde extravagance, contributing to a renewed critical \u2018encounter\u2019 with architecture\u2019s aesthetic-political function.