Productive Universals-Specific Situations: Critical Engagements in Art, Architecture, and Urbanism

Essays chart the shift of the concept of universality from essence to modality, from the abstract and static to the performative and productive.

In today's increasingly digitalized and neoliberal societies, debates on universals and specifics have gained new momentum. This volume discusses the entanglements of the universal in the fields of art, architecture, and urbanism from the nineteenth century to the present. Highlighting the interrelation of the specific and the universal in each historical situation, these essays venture an epistemic shift of the concept of universality: from essence to modality, from the abstract and static to the performative and productive.

Contributors
Ursula Biemann, Gaia Caramellino, Filippo De Pieri, Johan F. Hartle, Samia Henni, Christa Kamleithner, Anne Kockelkorn, Katarzyna Ruchel-Stockmans, Emily E. Scott, Laila Seewang, Manuel Shvartzberg Carri , Ariane Varela Braga, Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll, Alla Vronskaya, Andrew Stefan Weiner, Nina Zschocke

Author: Anne Kockelkorn
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Published: 09/17/2019
Pages: 448
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.80lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.90w x 1.30d
ISBN13: 9783956793011
ISBN10: 3956793013
BISAC Categories:
- Art | Criticism & Theory
- Architecture | Criticism