The Ethics of a Potential Urbanism(English, Electronic book text, Boano Camillo)

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The Ethics of a Potential Urbanism(English, Electronic book text, Boano Camillo) is written by Boano Camillo and published by Taylor & Francis Ltd. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1134883285 (ISBN 10) and 9781134883288 (ISBN 13).

The Ethics of a Potential Urbanism explores the possible and potential relevance of Giorgio Agamben's political thoughts and writings for the theory and the practice of architecture and urban design. It sketches out the potentiality of Agamben's politics, which can affect change in current architectural and design discourses. The book investigates the possibility of an inoperative architecture, as an ethical shift for a different practice, just a little bit different, but able to deactivate the sociospatial dispositive and mobilize a new theory and a new project for the urban now to come. This particular reading from Agamben's oeuvre suggests a destituent mode of both thinking and practicing of architecture and urbanism that could possibly redeem them from their social emptiness, cultural irrelevance, economic reductionism and proto-avant-garde extravagance, contributing to a renewed critical 'encounter' with architecture's aesthetic-political function.