Chapter 2 Down Below, Disqualification: How to Design the Formal Subsumption of Labour

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Introduction 7
4. Section 1 Labour and its Histories
5. Chapter 1 Siegfried Kracauer, Architectural Employee 30
6. Chapter 2 Down Below, Disqualification: How to Design the Formal Subsumption of Labour 47
7. Chapter 3 ‘Capitalist Sorcery’ and the Daylight Auto Factory 67
8. Section 2 Infrastructure and Environment
9. Chapter 4 Designing the Environment of Self-Management: Marxist Theory and Architectural Discourse in 1960s and 1970s Yugoslavia 90
10. Chapter 5 ‘Brutalism as Class Architecture: The Case of Robin Hood Gardens’ 111
11. Chapter 6 Groundwork: Viollet-le-Duc, Marx and the Metabolic Rift 129
12. Section 3 Ideological Formations
13. Chapter 7 Architecture’s World History 154
14. Chapter 8 The Myth of the Architect 174
15. Section 4 Building the Racial Regime of Modernity
16. Chapter 9 Policing the Crisis: Locating the Urban in British Cultural Studies 196
17. Chapter 10 a so-called archive 216
18. Biographies of Contributors 238
19. Picture Credits 240