THE URBAN APPARATUS

Urbanization is a system of power and knowledge, and todays city functions through the expansive material infrastructures of the ur ban order. In The Urban Apparatus, Reinhold Martin analyzes urbanization and the contemporary city in aesthetic, socioeconomic, and mediapolitical terms. He argues that understanding the city as infrastructure reveals urbanization to be a way of imparting function al, aesthetic, and cognitive order to a contradictory, doubly bound neoliberal regime.Blending critical philosophy, political theory , and medi...[Read more]