Helge Mooshammer

Peter Moertenboeck

Platform Urbanism and Its Discontents

Peter Mörtenböck

Bringing together imaginative architectural approaches with texts by key contemporary thinkers, the two-part Informal Market Worlds explores new ways to interrupt the dominant logics of neoliberal governance. The Reader includes expert essays on urban informality, bottom-up economies and informal architectures as harbingers of social and political change. Offering a global perspective on the conflicted realities of informal marketplaces--from survival activities of the urban poor to transnational clandestine trade networks--these analyses reveal how informality has become a political instrument in the struggles around global market integration.

The Architecture of Economic Pressure

Informal Market Worlds

Teddy Cruz

The essays in the reader debate the scope of informality for generating economic, social and political change. From discussing the conceptual challenges behind the development of a new political economy based on the philosophical, legal, and social architecture of 'other markets' to exploring how changing global relations are already initiating new forms of urban practice, these analyses provide a thorough understanding of what is at stake in the new geography of Informal Market Worlds. With contributions by Teddy Cruz, Keith Hart, Jiang Jun, Lawrence Liang, MAP Office, Vyjayanthi Rao, Ananya Roy, Saskia Sassen, AbdouMaliq Simone, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Ignacio Valero, Matias Viegener, and others. The accompanying atlas brings together more than 80 case studies on the spatial and visual culture of informal markets from around the world.

Cruising, ein Synonym fur das Herumstreifen auf der Suche nach sexuellen Abenteuern, verschiebt wie beilaufig die gesichert geglaubte Identitat von Raumen und lasst im Verdeckten andere Bedeutungen entstehen: In stilisierenden und erotisierenden Blicken, in den kurzen Begegnungen von Korpern und Phantasien bilden sich fluchtige, standig erneuerte Momente von Beteiligung und Kontakt. Dieses kulturelle Potenzial von Cruising fuhrt den Diskurs um die Hegemonie von Sichtbarkeit in der Wissensgeschichte der Moderne an neue Schauplatze und beschreibt die Moglichkeiten fur ein zunehmendes Begehren nach dem Unsichtbaren als dem Unbekannten, nach Formen seines Erlebens ausserhalb der bezeichneten, materiell reprasentierten Bahnen. Beispiele, die versuchen, diese Qualitaten von Cruising in gebaute Raume zu transformieren, machen die Bedeutung schaffende Wirkung der subjektiven, korperlichen Verwicklung in der Produktion von Raum deutlich: Cruising lasst sich nicht vom Einsatz subjektiver Phantasien und deren eigenen zeitlichen und raumlichen Dimensionen, ihren korperlichen Vergangenheiten und Rhythmen, losgelost in funktionale Programme ubersetzen. Den miteinander verbundenen Wissenskonstruktionen von Psychoanalyse, Kunst und Architektur kommt in einer Kritik an solchen Akten des Sichtbarmachens, des Ubersetzens von Kultur in 'konstruierten' Raum, eine besondere Rolle zu. Der hierzu formulierte Theorieansatz einer 'relationalen Architektur' argumentiert fur ein Weiterdenken von Cruising als epistemologisches Modell, das in der Entwicklung neuer Architekturtheorien und Praxisformen die raumlichen Qualitaten des Skriptlosen und Unfertigen im kulturellen Erleben artikuliert.

Architektur, Psychoanalyse und Queer Cultures

Cruising

Data has emerged as a key component that determines how interactions across the world are structured, mediated and represented. This book examines these new data publics and the areas in which they become operative, via analysis of politics, geographies, environments and social media platforms. By claiming to offer a mechanism to translate every conceivable occurrence into an abstract code that can be endlessly manipulated, digitally processed data has caused conventional reference systems which hinge on our ability to mark points of origin, to rapidly implode. Authors from a range of disciplines provide insights into such a political economy of data capitalism; the political possibilities of techno-logics beyond data appropriation and data refusal; questions of visual, spatial and geographical organization; emergent ways of life and the environments that sustain them; and the current challenges of data publics, which is explored via case studies of three of the most influential platforms in the social media economy today: Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp. Data Publics will be of great interest to academics and students in the fields of computer science, philosophy, sociology, media and communication studies, architecture, visual culture, art and design, and urban and cultural studies.

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