Spatial Ecologies
Urban Sites, State and World-Space in French Cultural Theory
Distributed for Liverpool University Press
171 pages
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6 x 9
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© 2012
Spatial Ecologies asks why French cultural and critical theory since 1968 has turned from investigating questions of time to examining space. Verena Conley ranges over the work of Henri Lefebvre, Michel de Certeau, Jean Baudrillard, Marc Auge, Paul Virilio, Bruno Latour, and Etienne Balibar to analyze how they reconsidered the experience of space in the midst of political and economic turmoil and to find out what writing about space can tell us about life in late capitalism. Conley links this question to Heidegger’s concept of habitality and shows how this concept of space informs much of French theory.
Contents
Introduction: Space as a Critical Concept
1. Henri Lefebvre: Lived Spaces
2. Michel de Certeau: Anthropological Spaces
3. Jean Baudrillard: Media Places
4. Marc Augé: Non-Places
5. Paul Virilio: Speed Space
6. Deleuze and Guattari: Space and Becoming
7. Bruno Latour: Common Spaces
8. Etienne Balibar: Spatial Fictions
Conclusion: Future Spaces
Bibliography
Index
1. Henri Lefebvre: Lived Spaces
2. Michel de Certeau: Anthropological Spaces
3. Jean Baudrillard: Media Places
4. Marc Augé: Non-Places
5. Paul Virilio: Speed Space
6. Deleuze and Guattari: Space and Becoming
7. Bruno Latour: Common Spaces
8. Etienne Balibar: Spatial Fictions
Conclusion: Future Spaces
Bibliography
Index
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