The Urban Apparatus: Mediapolitics and the City

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Blending critical philosophy, political theory, and media theory, The Urban Apparatus explores how the aesthetics of cities and their political economies overlap. In a series of ten essays, Reinhold Martin argues that understanding the city as infrastructure reveals urbanization to be a way of imparting functional, aesthetic, and cognitive order to a contradictory, doubly bound neoliberal regime.

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"Reinhold Martin's work productively connects debates on architectural culture to fundamental questions related to the political economy of city-building, urbanism, and urbanization. His ideas are at once philosophically grounded, historically nuanced, spatially attuned, and political."Neil Brenner, Harvard University

"The Urban Apparatus offers a brilliant meditation on the new realities and experiences of the city in a fluid and rapidly changing global situation. Reinhold Martin explores an extraordinarily diverse set of objects in ways that are illuminating, original, and often deeply movingall of which take on special urgency in our current national and geo-political climates."Phillip E. Wegner, University of Florida

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Reinhold Martin is professor of architecture at Columbia University. He cofounded the journal Grey Room and is author of Utopias Ghost: Architecture and Postmodernism, Again (Minnesota, 2010).