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Architecture in the Age of Pornography: Reading Alain Badiou

Architecture in the Age of Pornography: Reading Alain Badiou
Date: September 30th, 2021
Сategory: Architecture
ISBN: 1032049049
Language: English
Number of pages: 164 pages
Format: EPUB
Architecture, and its pedagogy in the academy, is dominated by the technology of image production that veils the 'naked power' behind its operation. It conforms to the principles of cultural logic of the society of the spectacle, consistent with neoliberal capitalism. The problem with this dominant pedagogy is that it violates the fundamental ethical imperative, putting architecture in direct contradiction with the 'common good'. In addition, it has let architecture enter the brothel of pornographic capitalism which turns every object into an object of obscene gratification of the senses.

In this book, Nadir Lahiji adopts Alain Badiou's thesis from The Pornographic Age to demonstrate that contemporary architecture is in absolute complicity with the pornographic present. The traits that Badiou identifies in this age are manifestly visible in architectural surfaces which are subordinated to the same 'regime of images'. Similarly to Badiou's political indictments of the society which has given rise to the pornographic present, the book condemns the architecture that has lent its service to the same society with a license to consummate its transgression to better cater to the imperative of the 'regime of images'.

Transposing the conceptual categories in Badiou's analysis to the critique of architecture's pornographic turn in contemporary society, the book constructs a conceptual framework by which to demonstrate the specific manifestations of pornography in building. The book is aimed at architecture students at higher graduate and post-graduate levels.

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