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Architecture in the Age of Pornography: Reading Alain Badiou

English

By (author): Nadir Lahiji

Architecture, and its pedagogy in the academy, is dominated by the technology of image production that veils the naked power behind its operation. It conforms to the principles of cultural logic of the society of the spectacle, consistent with neoliberal capitalism. The problem with this dominant pedagogy is that it violates the fundamental ethical imperative, putting architecture in direct contradiction with the common good. In addition, it has let architecture enter the brothel of pornographic capitalism which turns every object into an object of obscene gratification of the senses.

In this book, Nadir Lahiji adopts Alain Badious thesis from The Pornographic Age to demonstrate that contemporary architecture is in absolute complicity with the pornographic present. The traits that Badiou identifies in this age are manifestly visible in architectural surfaces which are subordinated to the same regime of images. Similarly to Badious political indictments of the society which has given rise to the pornographic present, the book condemns the architecture that has lent its service to the same society with a license to consummate its transgression to better cater to the imperative of the regime of images.

Transposing the conceptual categories in Badious analysis to the critique of architectures pornographic turn in contemporary society, the book constructs a conceptual framework by which to demonstrate the specific manifestations of pornography in building. The book is aimed at architecture students at higher graduate and post-graduate levels.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 640g
  • Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
  • Publication Date: 30 Sep 2021
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781032049052

About Nadir Lahiji

Nadir Lahiji is an architect. He is most recently the author of Architecture Philosophy and the Pedagogy of Cinema (Routledge 2021) Architecture or Revolution: Emancipatory Critique after Marx (Routledge 2020) and An Architecture Manifesto: Critical Reason and Theories of a Failed Practice (Routledge 2019). His previous publications include among others Adventures with the Theory of the Baroque and French Philosophy and the co-authored The Architecture of Phantasmagoria: Specters of the City.

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