Unhoused : Adorno and the problem of dwelling / Matt Waggoner.

Main entry:

Waggoner, Matthew, author.

Title & Author:

Unhoused : Adorno and the problem of dwelling / Matt Waggoner.

Publication:

[New York] : Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, [2018]
©2018

Description:

167 pages ; 19 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Homelessness -- No man's lands -- The nature theater -- The property relation -- Conclusion : Adorno, neoliberalism, housing.

Summary:

Unhoused: Adorno and the Problem of Dwelling' is the first book-length study of Theodor Adorno as a philosopher of housing. Treating his own experience of exile as emblematic of late modern life, Adorno observed that twentieth-century dwelling had been rendered "impossible" by nativism, by the decimations of war, and, in the postwar period, by housing's increasingly thorough assimilation into private property. 0'Unhoused' tracks four figurations of troubled dwelling in Adorno's texts-homelessness, no man's lands, the nature theater, and the ironic property relation-and reads them as timely interventions and challenges for today's architecture, housing, and senses of belonging. Entangled as we are in juridical and financial frameworks that adhere to a very different logic, these figurations ask what it means to organize, design, build, and cohabit in ways that enliven non-exclusive relations to ourselves, others, objects, and place.

ISBN:

9781941332399 paperback
1941332390 paperback

Subject:

Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969.
Adorno, Theodor W. 1903-1969
Housing.
Architektur
Wohnen

Holdings:

Location: Library main 301526
Call No.: BIB 247702
Status: Available

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