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  • Evil Paradises

    Dreamworlds of Neoliberalism

    Edición de Mike Davis, Daniel Bertrand Monk ...
    A global guidebook to the "utopias" being constructed—in cities, deserts, and on islands—in a capitalist era unfettered by union and state regulations.A New York Times Art and Architecture Critic's PickAlthough they read like science fiction, the case studies are shockingly real. In Dubai, where child slavery existed until very recently, a gilded archipelago of private islands known as "The ... Leer más

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  • Evil Paradises

    Dreamworlds of Neoliberalism

    Edición de Mike Davis, Daniel Bertrand Monk ...
    Evil Paradises, edited by Mike Davis and Daniel Bertrand Monk, is a global guidebook to phantasmagoric but real places—alternate realities being constructed as “utopias” in a capitalist era unfettered by unions and state regulation. These developments—in cities, deserts, and in the middle of the sea—are worlds where consumption and inequality surpass our worst nightmares. Although they read like ... Leer más

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  • The Global Shelter Imaginary

    Ikea Humanitarianism and Rightless Relief

    Series series Forerunners: Ideas First
    Examines how the humanitarian order advances a message of moral triumph and care while abandoning the dispossessedPrompted by a growing number of refugees and other displaced people, intersections of design and humanitarianism are proliferating. From the IKEA Foundation’s Better Shelter to Airbnb’s Open Homes program, the consumer economy has engaged the global refugee crisis with seemingly new ... Leer más

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  • An Aesthetic Occupation

    The Immediacy of Architecture and the Palestine Conflict

    In An Aesthetic Occupation Daniel Bertrand Monk unearths the history of the unquestioned political immediacy of “sacred” architecture in the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis. Monk combines groundbreaking archival research with theoretical insights to examine in particular the Mandate era—the period in the first half of the twentieth century when Britain held sovereignty over Palestine. ... Leer más

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  • “Who’s Afraid of ISIS?”

    Towards a Doxology of War

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    "Who’s Afraid of ISIS?" eschews familiar debates about the status of ISIS as an existential threat to the West, with the aim of submitting those types of arguments to a reasoned examination of the political place of anxiety itself. This collection concerns itself with the doxologies that attend such arguments, or with that which, as Bourdieu wrote, "goes without saying becomes it comes without ... Leer más

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