Important Reading: Books for review
What do you think are the key theoretical texts and themes on space and culture of the last three years? What has been most influential in your work? We’re interested in hearing your take on what specific theory books, articles, journals, magazines, blogs, shows, places and other media are important for space and culture. And, what themes are, continue to be, or are becoming, important?
- Ondine
February 6th, 2008 at 11:18 am
I may be speaking to an audience more knowledgeable than I, but there have been some stirrings, if the blogosphere is any indication, of a renewed or sustained interest in the relationship between power and space. Richard Ross’ ‘Architecture of authority’ (link below) prompted some of this. I think there is an opportunity or demand for those versed in tools of cultural analysis to collaborate with, or produce their own, endeavours similar to that of Ross’, and to extend the conversation, rather than simply reiterate a Foucault-reductive indictment of spatial power. Cheers!
http://tinyurl.com/2zwjqa
February 6th, 2008 at 4:50 pm
I hear Mike Michael’s “Technoscience and Everyday Life” from Anne and “Re-assembling the Social” by Bruno Latour and “Non-representational Theory” by Nigel Thrift from Joost. Here are mine:
Latour “Making things Public”
recent translations of De Bestegui (”Thinking with Heidegger”), Perniola, Flusser,
the Documenta Magazine project (”Documenta Magazine No. 1-3 2007 Reader”)
Lefebvre “Urban Revolution” (recent English translation)
et cetera
February 6th, 2008 at 7:37 pm
I’d add John Law’s “After Method” too.
February 8th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
A great deal of momentum seems to be building around the suggestion of a ‘new mobilities paradigm’ (Sheller and Urry 2006 in Env and Planning A), and Larsen et al. have drawn out some connections to communication and technologies in Mobilities, networks, geographies.