Main entry:

Cauter, Lieven de, 1959-

Title & Author:

The capsular civilization : on the city in the age of fear / Lieven De Cauter.

Publication:

Rotterdam : NAi Publishers, 2004.

Description:

200 pages ; 23 cm.

Series:

Reflect ; #03

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
For a politics of the city: preamble -- I. The rise of the generic city: or Rem Koolhaas's flight forward -- The neo-theatrical city: on the old metropolis and the new masses -- II. The capsular civilization: the city in the age of transcendental capitalism -- The rise of heterotopias -- The capsule and the network: notes for a general theory -- III. The permanent catastrophe -- Geology of the new fear -- IV. Welcome to the new imperial world order -- 'The bloody mystifications of the new world order': on Homo sacer by Giorgio Agamben -- V. Utopia and globalization -- Beyond postmodern melancholy -- Entropic empire -- Epilogue.
Also issued online.

Summary:

"The spread of capsular civilization is a worst-case scenario that is taking shape before our very eyes, unaware of it though we may be. Faced with the breakneck pace of technology, the suburbanization of our daily lives and the extreme but poignant polarization of our society, we are compelled to return to the capsules of our vehicles, our architectural cocoons and our urban enclaves, as exemplified by malls, gated communities and amusement parks. The process of capsularization is playing out against a threatening background of demographic-environmental catastrophe and of a militarization of the planet. In this book, cultural philosopher Lieven De Cauter paints a picture of a society dominated by fear, exclusion and simulation, while studying the changing significance of the city in this 'derailed' and 'untenable' world"--Back cover.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

9056624075
9789056624071

Subject:

Cities and towns.
Sociology, Urban.
Social isolation.
City planning Social aspects.
Cities
Social Isolation
Sociologie urbaine.
Isolement social.
Villes.
Urbanisme Aspect social.
Mondialisation.
cities.
urban sociology.
globalism.
Stadssociologie.
Stadscultuur.

Added entries:

Reflect (Rotterdam, Netherlands)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 241783
Call No.: BIB 171630
Status: Available