Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; Notes on contributors; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: the critical project and the post-political suspension of politics; Part I Aesthetics, politics, and architecture; 1 Metropolitics, or, architecture and the contemporary Left; 2 Modern democracy and aesthetic revolution in the work of Rancière: reflections on historical causality; 3 Unfaithful reflections: re-actualizing Benjamin's aestheticism thesis; 4 Political subjectification and the architectural dispositif
Part II The political and the critique of architecture5 Capitalism and the politics of autonomy; 6 Architecture as such: notes on generic(ness) and labor sans phrase; 7 Thoughts on agency, utopia, and property in contemporary architectural and urban theory; 8 Metalepsis of the site of exception; Part III The post-political and contemporary urbanism; 9 The architecture of managerialism: OMA, CCTV, and the post-political; 10 Zero points: urban space and the political subject; 11 To fill the earth: architecture in a spaceless universe
12 From post-political to agonistic: Warsaw urban space since 1989Afterwor(l)d; Bibliography; Index
