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CRITICAL SPACIAL PRACTICE 1
What Is Critical Spatial Practice?
Nikolaus Hirsch & Markus Miessen (Eds.)
What, today, can be understood as a critical modality of spatial practice? This question, and others, were posed to protagonists from the fields of architecture, art, philosophy, and literature by architectural theorists and curators Nikolaus Hirsch and Markus Miessen in September, 2011. The resulting 64 contributions in this inaugural volume of the Critical Spatial Practice series co-presented by the Städelschule, were composed concurrently with the evictions of Occupy movements, sustained turmoil of the Arab Spring, and continued spasms in the global financial system. All point to the question of whether architecture can still be understood as a res publica. Each title in the series will include new work commissioned by invited artists—here, the photographer Armin Linke.
4 1/4 x 6 inches/ 162 pp/ 8 color I
ISBN: 978-3-943365-27-6
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CRITICAL SPATIAL PRACTICE 2
The Space of Agonism
Markus Miessen & Chantal Mouffe
The political theory of agonism emphasizes potentially progressive outcomes for political conflict; thinking in terms of “demoicracy”—a union that acknowledges and makes room for deeply ingrained societal divisions—this book proposes new approaches to countering and responding to the globalizing thrust of neo-liberalism. The second volume in the Critical Spatial Practice series, it presents a selection of conversations between Markus Miessen and political philosopher Chantal Mouffe. These dialogues attempt to unpack current political dilemmas through consensus-driven formats of political decision-making, alternately driven by Miessen’s specific concerns regarding conflict-based forms of participation as an alternative (spatial) practice in democratic systems and Mouffe’s understanding and theory of a “conflictual consensus.” An artist project by Rabih Mroue accompanies the text.
4 1/4 x 6 inches/ 132 pp/ 23 color
ISBN: 978-3-943365-41-2
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