Anarchitecture after everything : a trans manifesto / Jack Halberstam.

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Halberstam, Jack, 1961- author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut

Title & Author:

Anarchitecture after everything : a trans manifesto / Jack Halberstam.

Publication:

Cambridge, Masachusetts ; London, England : The MIT Press, [2026]
©2026

Description:

272 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: the language of anarchitecture -- Trans anarchitectures and the unmaking of gender -- An aesthetics of collapse -- Broken windows: the art of demolition -- Feminist dereliction -- The anarchitecture of language.

Summary:

"Extremely timely and original work from one of the nation's most respected scholars in which radical politics and trans aesthetics meet in the practice of unbuilding and unmaking buildings and bodies"-- Provided by publisher.
"Anarchitecture, a radical aesthetic practice of unmaking the built environment, staged a vigorous confrontation with urban renewal and gentrification projects in the 1970s. In Anarchitecture After Everything, Jack Halberstam identifies a powerful lexicon of transformation within anarchitecture, joining the movement’s practices of cutting and splitting with the destabilizing power of transness to detonate acts of formal violence in our time. Anarchitecture describes the aesthetic practice of splitting and cutting, dismantling and undoing, unmaking, unbuilding, and ultimately unworlding. The trans body splits bodily coherence, dismantles the gender binary, and unbuilds bodily meaning. In these chapters, Gordon Matta-Clark’s cuts, along with Alvin Baltrop’s 1970s images of collapsing warehouses and Beverly Buchanan’s post-demolition fragmentary sculptures, return with a vengeance through the contemporary aesthetic gestures of Yve Laris Cohen, Jesse Darling, Nicole Eisenman, Kiyan Williams, Cassils, boychild, and Every Ocean Hughes. Anarchitecture unmakes space and offers a new rhetoric for emptiness. In its conclusion, the book explores this rhetoric through Renee Gladman’s anarchitectural experiments with language. By reading anarchitecture through transness and transness through anarchitecture, Halberstam helps us see the trans body as a space of radical unmaking and as a portal to new lexicons for transformation."--Penguin Books.

ISBN:

9780262052429 paperback
0262052423 paperback
pdf
9780262052436
epub
9780262052443

Subject:

Architecture Philosophy.
Human body (Philosophy)
Trans people Identity.
Architecture Philosophie.
Corps humain (Philosophie)
architectural theory.
Transgender people.
Transgender identity.

Added entries:

Trans manifesto

Holdings:

Location: Library main 326194
Call No.: 326194
Copy: 1
Status: Available

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