Power to Create, Power to Destroy: Toward Cultures of Resistance and Radical Social Change

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Power to Create, Power to Destroy: Toward Cultures of Resistance and Radical Social Change is the fruit of the collective adventure of activists and researchers engaged in the global struggle against capitalism. The volume gathers reflections, experiences, and insights from multiple perspectives that share a common objective: a radical reorientation of societies toward meeting human[…]

Topie Impitoyable: The Corporeal Politics of the Cloth, the Wall, and the Street

Published: 04/25/2016

It always seems useful to situate a discourse in the wider context of one’s ongoing research. This new book begins where the previous one, Weaponized Architecture: The Impossibility of Innocence, ended. I wrote it in 2010 and my friends Baraona Pohl and César Reyes had the kindness to publish it in 2012. That book started with the hypothesis that architecture is inherently violent because of the way it dissects space and because of the resulting spatial organization of bodies. Architecture is a social discipline, and therefore this violence always ends up as an instrument of politics, whether it’s done consciously or not.