Productive Universals-Specific Situations: Critical Engagements in Art, Architecture, and Urbanism (Sternberg Press) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3956793013 ISBN 13: 9783956793011

Publisher: Sternberg Press, 2019

Synopsis

Essays chart the shift of the concept of universality from essence to modality, from the abstract and static to the performative and productive.

In today's increasingly digitalized and neoliberal societies, debates on universals and specifics have gained new momentum. This volume discusses the entanglements of the universal in the fields of art, architecture, and urbanism from the nineteenth century to the present. Highlighting the interrelation of the specific and the universal in each historical situation, these essays venture an epistemic shift of the concept of universality: from essence to modality, from the abstract and static to the performative and productive.

Contributors
Ursula Biemann, Gaia Caramellino, Filippo De Pieri, Johan F. Hartle, Samia Henni, Christa Kamleithner, Anne Kockelkorn, Katarzyna Ruchel-Stockmans, Emily E. Scott, Laila Seewang, Manuel Shvartzberg Carrió, Ariane Varela Braga, Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll, Alla Vronskaya, Andrew Stefan Weiner, Nina Zschocke

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Review:

To counter the populist pull of a post-truth era this collection dares to return to a thought of universality―and successfully introduces the applicable concept of the productive universal. It must work! Planetary urbanism, the algorithmic management of a global population, and climate crises are all at stake. This thought-provoking book invites architects and urbanists to think through the friction of concrete occasions toward concerns that are universally shared.

―Hélène Frichot, Professor of Architecture in Critical Studiesand Gender Theory, KTH Stockholm

About this edition

• Publisher: Sternberg Press
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 3956793013
• ISBN 13: 9783956793011
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448
• Editor: Kockelkorn Anne, Zschocke Nina