The event, politics and dissent: Alain Badiou and the utopian provocations of Brodsky and Utkin

Title: The event, politics and dissent: Alain Badiou and the utopian provocations of Brodsky and Utkin
Creator: Ostwald, Michael J.
Relation: Architecture and Culture Vol. 2, Issue 1, p. 12-25
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.2752/175145214X13796096691409
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2014
Description: Architectural theorists and historians have identified two common types of political response through design: the revolutionary’s utopian “project” and the dissident’s utopian “impulse.” Moreover, in architectural scholarship the former of these is typically celebrated for its vision and manifest agenda, while the latter is often dismissed as escapist and innately ephemeral. However, when viewed in the context of the work of French post-political philosopher Alain Badiou, it is possible to see that the more powerful potential is actually embodied in works of sustained, yet unpredictable, dissent. Using two designs by the Russian Paper Architects Brodsky and Utkin as examples, this article draws on Badiou’s theories to demonstrate the political potential of architectural dissidence.
Subject: Alain Badiou; Brodsky and Utkin; dissidence; utopian theory; political theory
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1298159
Identifier: uon:19596
Identifier: ISSN:2050-7828
Language: eng
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