Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Notes of Appreciation V
3. Contents VII
4. Entrance 1
5. Part One: A Critical Theory of Social Space: Home and Aura
6. Chapter 1 The Philosophical Gate into the Present Work 11
7. Chapter 2 The Dialectics of Home 30
8. Chapter 3 Exile and the Struggle with the Unattainability of Home and the Impossibility of Art 55
9. Chapter 4 The Dialectics of the Gaze: Aura and a Philosophy of the Window 88
10. Part Two: Biopolitical Economy of Housing and The Production of Homelessness
11. Chapter 5 The Absolute and the Death of Home 109
12. Chapter 6 Fetishized Space and Disembodied Identities 126
13. Chapter 7 The Gaze of Power and De-housing: Biopolitical Economy of Homelessness 147
14. Chapter 8 Auracide and the Critical Theory of Social Space 165
15. Concluding Remarks 188
16. References 196
17. Index 204