Main entry:

Martin, Reinhold, 1964- author.

Title & Author:

The urban apparatus : mediapolitics and the city / Reinhold Martin.

Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2016]

Description:

xi, 193 pages ; 23 cm

Notes:
Portions previously published in various sources.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-177) and index.
City, country, world -- Financial imaginaries -- The thing about cities -- Public and common(s) -- Horizons of thought -- Polis = Oikos -- Notes on the housing question -- Broken windows -- Beijing in Detroit -- Infrastructure and mediapolitics.

Summary:

Urbanization is a system of power and knowledge, and today's city functions through the expansive material infrastructures of the urban order. In The Urban Apparatus, Reinhold Martin analyzes urbanization and the contemporary city in aesthetic, socioeconomic, and mediapolitical terms. He argues that understanding the city as infrastructure reveals urbanization to be a way of imparting functional, aesthetic, and cognitive order to a contradictory, doubly bound neoliberal regime. Blending critical philosophy, political theory, and media theory, Martin explores questions related to urban life, drawn from a wide range of global topics-from the fiscal crisis in Detroit to speculative development in Mumbai to the landscape of Mars, from discussions of race and the environment to housing and economic inequality. Each essay proposes a particular "mediator" (or a material complex) that is shaped by imaginative practices, each answering the question "What is a city, today?". Book jacket.

ISBN:

9781517901189 (hc ; alk. paper)
1517901189 (hc ; alk. paper)
9781517901196 (pb ; alk. paper)
1517901197 (pb ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Cities and towns.
Villes.
cities.
ARCHITECTURE / Criticism.
ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban.
Stadt
Verstädterung
Medienpolitik
Wirtschaftstheorie

Holdings:

Location: Library main 293519
Call No.: BIB 238567
Status: Available