Title & Author:

Deleuze and the city / edited by Hélène Frichot, Catharina Gabrielsson and Jonathan Metzger.

Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2016]
©2016

Description:

vi, 259 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Series:

Deleuze connections

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: What a City Can Do / Hélène Frichot, Catharina Gabrielsson and Jonathan Metzger -- 1. Becoming-Other: New Orleans from a Deleuzian Perspective / Fredrika Spindler -- 2. Humans as Vectors and Intensities: Becoming Urban in Berlin and New York City / Ignacio Farías and Stefan Höhne -- 3. Rethinking the City as a Body without Organs / Louise Beltung Horvath and Markus Maicher -- 4. The Impredicative City, or What Can a Boston Square Do? / Marc Boumeester and Andrej Radman -- 5. Laboratory Urbanism in Schladming / Magnus Eriksson and Karl Palmås -- 6. Never Believe That the City Will Suffice to Save Us! Stockholm Gentri-Fictions / Hélène Frichot and Jonathan Metzger -- 7. Urban Democracy Beyond Deleuze and Guattari / Mark Purcell -- 8. Genealogy of Capital and the City: CERFI, Deleuze and Guattari / Sven-Olov Wallenstein -- 9. Deterritorialising the Face of the City: How Treponema pallidum Planned Melbourne / Jean Hillier -- 10. The City and 'the Homeless': Machinic Subjects / Michele Lancione -- 11. Cut-Make-and-Trim: Fast Fashion Urbanity in the Residues of Rana Plaza / Maria Hellström Reimer -- 12. The Haifa Urban Destruction Machine / Ronnen Ben-Arie -- 13. Imagining Portland's Future Past: Lessons from Indigenous Placemaking in a Colonial City / Janet McGaw -- 14. Folded Ground: Escape from Cape Town / Catharina Gabrielsson -- 15. Sociability and Endurance in Jakarta / AbdouMaliq Simone -- Postscript: For an Urban Machinic Ecology / Gary Genosko.

Summary:

"Uses the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari to interrogate what cities can do. Defining the lives of a majority of the world's population, the question of 'the city' has risen to the fore as one the most urgent issues of our time - uniting concerns across the terrain of climate policies, global financing, localised struggles and multi-disciplinary research. Deleuze and the City rests on a conviction that philosophy is crucially important for advancing knowledge on cities, and for allowing us to envisage new forms of urban life toward a more sustainable future. It gathers some of the most original thinkers and accomplished scholars in contemporary urban studies, showing how Deleuze and Guattari's philosophical project is essential for our thinking through the multi-scalar, uneven and contested landscapes that constitute 'the city' today. Dispelling the old question of what the city is, this collection provides a nuanced mapping of situations emerging in concrete urban settings across the globe, ranging from the 'laboratory urbanism' of an Austrian ski resort and a 'sustainable' Swedish shopping mall to the 'urbicidal' refurbishments of Haifa."-- Punlisher's website.

ISBN:

1474407595 paperback
9781474407595 paperback
9781474407588 hardcover
1474407587 hardcover
9781474407618 (ePub ebook)
9781474407601 (PDF ebook)

Subject:

Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995.
City planning Philosophy.
Architecture Philosophy.
City and town life Philosophy.
Vie urbaine Philosophie.

Added entries:

Frichot, Hélène, editor.
Gabrielsson, Catharina, editor.
Metzger, Jonathan, 1978- editor.
Deleuze connections.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 292868
Call No.: BIB 237412
Status: Available