Spatial Violence

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This book poses spatial violence as a constitutive dimension of architecture and its epistemologies, in addition to a method for theoretical and historical inquiry intrinsic to architecture; and thereby offers an alternative to predominant readings of spatial violence as a topic, event, fact, or other empirical form that can be illustrated by architecture. Exploring histories of and through architecture at sites across the globe, the chapters in the book blur the purportedly distinctive borders between war and peace, framing violence as a form of social, political, and economic order fairly than its exceptional interruption. Regarding space and violence as co-constitutive, the book’s collected essays critique modernization and capitalist accumulation as naturalized modes for the extraction of violence from on a regular basis life. Specializing in the mediation of violence through architectural registers of construction, destruction, design, use, representation, theory, and history, the book suggests that violence is not just something inflicted upon architecture, but also something that architecture inflicts. In keeping with Walter Benjamin’s formulation that there is not any document of civilization that may be not also a document of barbarism, the book offers “spatial violence” as another name for “architecture” itself. This book used to be up to now published as a special issue of Architectural Theory Review.


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