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Architecture the Age of Pornography: Reading Alain Badiou
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Architecture the Age of Pornography: Reading Alain Badiou
Current price: $180.00
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Architecture the Age of Pornography: Reading Alain Badiou
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In this book, Nadir Lahiji adopts Alain Badiou’s thesis from
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.