1st Edition
Architecture for a Free Subjectivity Deleuze and Guattari at the Horizon of the Real
By Simone Brott
Copyright 2011
150 Pages
by
Routledge
150 Pages
by
Routledge
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Architecture for a Free Subjectivity reformulates the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze's model of subjectivity for architecture, by surveying the prolific effects of architectural encounter, and the spaces that figure in them. For Deleuze and his Lacanian collaborator Félix Guattari, subjectivity does not refer to a person, but to the potential for and event of matter becoming subject, and the... Read more
Contents: Foreword; Introduction: subjectivization; Deleuze and 'the intercessors'; Impersonal effects; Impersonal effects 2; Guattari and the Japanese new wave; Shinohara and Takamatsu: objets verité; Architecture without qualities; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Dr, Simone Brott is a Lecturer in Architecture at the Queensland University of Technology, Australia
'In a series of deeply thought, and entirely original chapters, the book explores the potentialities of Deleuze and Guattari's theories of impersonality and effects, and substitutes the idea of subjectivization for that of "the" subject. The book is expert in deploying its arguments towards a coherent and original conclusion, even as it admits of a wide range of philosophical and ideological positions as counterpoints.' Anthony Vidler,The Cooper Union, New York, USA 'In the last twenty years, the literature on Deleuze in art and architecture has mushroomed. In this book, Simone Brott not only shows a strong sense of development in this larger literature; she also defines a new workable position.' John Rajchman, Columbia University, USA
