Critique of Architecture: Essays on Theory, Autonomy, and Political Economy

Contents
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction
Section 1. Architecture, Deleuze and Neoliberalism
1 Architectural Deleuzism: Neoliberal Space, Control and the ‘Univer-City’
2 Habitats for homo economicus: Architecture, Design and the Environment of ‘Man’
3 Personifying Capital: Architecture and the Image of Participation
Section 2. Autonomy: Architecture and the Politics of Depoliticization
4 Less than Enough: A Critique of the Project of Autonomy
5 The Limits of Limits: Schmitt, Aureli and the Geopolitical Ontology of the Island
6 Out of the Loop: Architecture, Automation and Cognitive Disinvestment
7 Architecture after California
Section 3. Reckoning with Theory
8 Going to Ground: Agency, Design and the Problem of Bruno Latour
9 Returns on the City: Detroit and the Design of Late Fordism
10 Enjoy the Silence: On the Consolations of the Post- political
11 Architecture’s Abode of Production: Beyond Base and Superstructure
12 On Allegory, the Architectural Imagination and Radical Disillusionment: In Conversation with Miloš Kosec
Note on the Essays
Illustrations