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The Conspiracy of Architecture: Notes on a Modern Anxiety

In: Historical Materialism
Author:
China Mieville
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01 Jan 1998
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Abstract

We, the residents of modernity, live in an unquiet house.This essay examines the relationship between human subjects and their built environment, but it does so less by focusing on architecture than on what one might call ‘architecture once removed'. It is less concerned with the built environment itself than with a prevalent image of that environment in ‘high’ and ‘popular’ culture, in literature, in film and painting. It is my contention that a particular unsettling image of buildings has gained increasing currency in the modern epoch. I will attempt to show that such an image — and a concomitant anxiety — exists, and to offer an explanation for its provenance.

Title:
The Conspiracy of Architecture: Notes on a Modern Anxiety
Article Type:
Research Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/156920698100414176
Language:
English
Pages:
1–32
In:
Historical Materialism
In:
Volume 2: Issue 1
Publisher:
Brill
E-ISSN:
1569-206X
Print ISSN:
1465-4466
Subjects:
Critical Social Sciences, Social Sciences, General, Philosophy

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