
Mediators
Aesthetics, Politics, and the City
Reinhold Martin(Author)
University of Minnesota Press
Published on 30. October 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
60 pages
978-0-8166-9687-1 (ISBN)
Description
Reinhold Martin's Mediators is a series of linked meditations on the globalized city. Focusing on infrastructural, technical, and social systems, Martin explores how the aesthetics and the political economy of cities overlap and interact. He discusses a range of subjects, including the architecture of finance written into urban policy, regimes of enumeration that remix city and country, fictional ecologies that rewrite biopolitics, the ruins of socialism strewn amid the transnational commons, and memories of revolution stored in everyday urban hardware. For Martin, these mediators-the objects, processes, and imaginaries from which these phenomena emerge-serve to explain disparate fragments of a global urbanity.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Minnesota
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 178 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-8166-9687-1 (9780816696871)
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Reinhold Martin is professor of architecture in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University, where he directs the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture and is a member of the Committee on Global Thought.