Dispute Plan to Prevent Future Luxury Constitution (e-flux

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Dispute Plan to Prevent Future Luxury Constitution (e-flux journal Series)

Equal parts Borges, Burroughs, Baudrillard, and Black Ops, Dispute Plan to Prevent Future Luxury Constitution charts a treacherous landscape filled with paranoid master plans, failed schemes, and dubious histories.

Benjamin H. Bratton's kaleidoscopic theory-fiction links the utopian fantasies of political violence with the equally utopian programs of security and control. Both rely on all manner of doubles, models, gimmicks, ruses, prototypes, and shock-and-awe campaigns to realize their propagandas of the deed, threat, and image. Blurring reality and delusion, they collaborate on a literally psychotic politics of architecture.

The cast of characters in this ensemble drama of righteous desperation and tactical trickery shuttle between fact and speculation, action and script, flesh and symbol, death and philosophy: insect urbanists, seditious masquerades, epistolary ideologues, distant dissimulations, carnivorous installations, forgotten footage, branded revolts, imploding skyscrapers, sentimental memorials, ad-hoc bunkers, sacred hijackings, vampire safe-houses, suburban enclaves, big-time proposals, ambient security protocols, disputed borders-of-convenience, empty research campuses, and robotic surgery.

In this mosaic we glimpse a future city built with designed violence and the violence of design. As one ratifies the other, the exception becomes the ruler.

Country	USA
Author	Benjamin H. Bratton
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9783956791956
Format	Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
Label	Sternberg Press, e-flux
Manufacturer	Sternberg Press, e-flux
NumberOfPages	140
PublicationDate	2016-01-07
Publisher	Sternberg Press, e-flux
ReleaseDate	2016-01-07
Studio	Sternberg Press, e-flux

Dispute Plan to Prevent Future Luxury Constitution (e-flux journal Series)

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