Totalitarian Space and the Destruction of Aura

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Notes on Totalitarianism
	A Critique of Dominant Understandings of “totalitarianism”
	Classical vs. Advanced Totalitarianism
	Totalitarian Mechanization and Standardization
	Closing
Chapter 2: The Production of Space
	Space as Production
	Lefebvre’s Spatial Dialectic
	Dominated Space
Chapter 3: Spatial Technologies of Power
	Transparency
	“Enlightenment Is Totalitarian”
	Panopticism
		I
		II
		III
	The Gaze
	Heterotopia or the Poetics of Spatial Aura
Chapter 4: Conceptualizing Aura
	The Indefinability of Aura
	Aura as a Negative Notion
	Aura as Trace
	Returning the Gaze
	Lost Trace
	Aura as Veil
	Aura as Distance
	Conclusion
Chapter 5: The Destruction of Aura and Its Political Implications
	Auralessness and New Absolutism
	Fetish vs. Aura
	Renavigation
Chapter 6: Images and the Production of Totalitarian Space
	Images as Means of Creating Hyperreality
	Images as Means of Panopticism
	Images as Means of Producing and Maintaining the Omnipresent Cult
	Images as Repetitive Patterns Simulating Spatial Sameness
	The Commodity and the Spectacle
Chapter 7: In the Absence of Aura: Spatial Dialectics of Despair and Hope
	Auratic Negativity and Space
		I
		II
		III
		IV
		V
Notes
References
Index