Full Description
Interdisciplinary in approach, this book employs the key concepts of fragmentation and reconfiguration to consider the ways in which human experience and artistic practice can engage with and respond to the disintegration that characterises modern cities. Asking how we might unsettle and decrypt the homogeneous images of cities created by processes linked to capitalism and globalisation, it invites us to consider the possibility of reimagining and rethinking the urban spaces we inhabit.
An exploration of the complex relationship between aesthetics, the arts and the city, Rethinking the City: Reconfiguration and Fragmentation will appeal to scholars across various disciplines, including philosophy, urban sociology and geography, anthropology, political theory and visual and media studies.
Contents
1. Introduction: The Ongoing Reconfiguration of the City Part I. Fragmentation and Reconfiguration: Urban and Historical Tensions 2. Cities of Memory and Ruins of the Present: Reflections in Wartime 3. My Schizoid City 4. Lisbon's Phantom Limb Syndrome: Lineaments of Spectral Ethnography 5. The Ambivalences of Intimacy and Aesthetic and Political Reconfigurations of the Common World Part II. City, Place and the Political 6. From the Domus to the Urbs: The Place of Life 7. Navigating Marx's Collective Praxis and Kierkegaard's Individual Practice in the Swarming-Dream City of Capitalism 8. Contemporary Identity Politics and the City: More than Fragmentation Part III. Urban Experience, Aesthetic Concepts 9. Towards a Political Ecology of Urban Ambiances 10. Urban Life Scenes in Georg Simmel: Passages Between House and City 11. The Art of Dwelling as Tacit Philia Part IV. Cities, Fragments and the Arts 12. Odysseus Impounded: Lost Sailors, Lost Times, Lost Loves 13. Drifting through Lisbon in a Home Movie Archive 14. The Periphery Is Not Where the City Ends but Where It Begins to Unfurl. Contributions to an Architecture of the Metropolis from Renaudie and Gailhoustet to Druot, Lacaton and Vassal 15. On Some Fragments of Trás-os-Montes, a Film by António Reis and Margarida Cordeiro
