Architecture in Abjection : Bodies, Spaces and Their Relations.

Cover -- Author bio -- Endorsement -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Architecture in abject(ion) - bodies, spaces and their relations -- Part I Mapping the field -- 1 Architecture: A dualistic paradigm -- Cartesianism: Ocularcentrism -- Phenomenology: The subject, the object -- The post-structuralist subject -- Contemporary: Bio-technological paradigm -- Architectural bodies and chemical indiscernibilities -- 2 Abject(ion) in architecture and Kristeva's theory of abjection -- The abject and abjection -- Abject(ion) as women's historical condition -- Writing on abject(ion), a field of connotations -- Informe -- Dust -- Weathering or spatial abject(ion) -- Abject constructions -- Process -- Part II Towards a productive notion of abject(ion) in architecture -- 3 Abject(ion) as event -- Event is not program -- Abject(ion) as program -- Abject(ion) as event -- Movement through space vs movement in place -- Temporality -- The Deleuzean event -- The Deleuzean assemblage and Tschumian architecture -- Occurrent arts and techniques of relation -- Project 3.1 Body abject(ion) space: A collection of contracts -- The wall cavity -- The sewing room -- The clinic -- 4 Abject(ion) as process -- Deleuze, Kristeva and excretory embodiment -- Physiological, psychological boundaries -- Architecture without organs -- The logic of sensation or the spasmodic body -- Processes -- Assemblage -- Becoming, becoming-imperceptible -- Project 4.1 The Tea Room -- The tea room -- 5 Abject(ion) in the realm of matter and affect -- Material disassemblies -- Spinoza -- Abject(ion), matter -- Sticky entanglements -- Architecture on the plan(e) of immanence -- Project 5.1 Transfer Pillows -- Part III Architecture in abject(ion) -- 6 Heterogeneous bodies -- Scaffold -- Body -- Spatial body -- Architect body.

Occupant body -- Architectural assemblage (or towards a processual architecture) -- A few concluding remarks -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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