The Urban Apparatus: Mediapolitics and the City
Reinhold Martin
Abstract
The Urban Apparatus analyzes urbanization and the contemporary city in aesthetic, socioeconomic, and mediapolitical terms. Its main argument is that understanding the city as infrastructure (i.e. hardware in all senses) reveals the category of the urban, and of urbanization, to be a way of imparting functional, aesthetic, and cognitive order to a contradictory, doubly-bound neoliberal regime, rather than an empirical or properly theoretical description of that regime. The “urban” is, in short, an apparatus of power and of knowledge. The book’s detailed theoretical introduction elaborates this ... More
Keywords: Apparatus, Infrastructure, Urban, Urbanization, Media, Mediapolitics, Aesthetics, Politics, Space, Cities
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2017 | Print ISBN-13: 9781517901189 |
| Published to Minnesota Scholarship Online: May 2017 | DOI:10.5749/minnesota/9781517901189.001.0001 |
