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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816653303321

Autore

Conley Verena Andermatt <1943->

Titolo

Spatial ecologies : urban sites, state and world-space in French cultural theory / / Verena Andermatt Conley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Liverpool, : Liverpool University Press, 2012

ISBN

1-78138-795-8

1-78138-896-2

1-84631-721-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vii, 171 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Contemporary French and francophone cultures

Disciplina

840.9

Soggetti

French literature - 20th century - History and criticism - Theory, etc

Criticism - France - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

Spatial Ecologies takes a new look at the ℗"spatial turn℗" in French cultural and critical theory since 1968.   Verena Andermatt Conley examines how Henri Lefebvre, Michel de Certeau, Jean Baudrillard, Marc Augé, Paul Virilio, Bruno Latour and Etienne Balibar reconsider the experience of space in the midst of considerable political and economic turmoil. The book considers why French critical theorists turned away from questions of time and looked instead toward questions of space. It asks what writing about space can tell us about life in late capitalism. Conley links this question to the problematic of habitality, taking us back to Heidegger and showing how it informs much of French theory. Building on the author's acclaimed earlier study Ecopolitics, Spatial Ecologies argues, through the voices of the authors taken up the eight chapters, for recognition of the virtue of spatial theory and its pragmatic applications in the global milieu.   It will be required reading



for scholars of literary and cultural theory, and twentieth- and twenty-first century French culture.