4 Less than Enough: A Critique of the Project of Autonomy

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Acknowledgements 8
4. Foreword 9
5. Introduction 18
6. Section 1. Architecture, Deleuze and Neoliberalism
7. 1 Architectural Deleuzism: Neoliberal Space, Control and the ‘Univer-City’ 30
8. 2 Habitats for homo economicus: Architecture, Design and the Environment of ‘Man’ 61
9. 3 Personifying Capital: Architecture and the Image of Participation 78
10. Section 2. Autonomy: Architecture and the Politics of Depoliticization
11. 4 Less than Enough: A Critique of the Project of Autonomy 102
12. 5 The Limits of Limits: Schmitt, Aureli and the Geopolitical Ontology of the Island 114
13. 6 Out of the Loop: Architecture, Automation and Cognitive Disinvestment 130
14. 7 Architecture after California 138
15. Section 3. Reckoning with Theory
16. 8 Going to Ground: Agency, Design and the Problem of Bruno Latour 150
17. 9 Returns on the City: Detroit and the Design of Late Fordism 163
18. 10 Enjoy the Silence: On the Consolations of the Post- political 176
19. 11 Architecture’s Abode of Production: Beyond Base and Superstructure 189
20. 12 On Allegory, the Architectural Imagination and Radical Disillusionment: In Conversation with Miloš Kosec 209
21. Note on the Essays 226
22. Illustrations 227