PRODUCTIVE UNIVERSALS - SPECIFIC SITUATIONS:
CRITICAL ENGAGEMENTS IN ART, ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM

Edited by ANNE KOCKELKORN,
NINA ZSCHOCKE
Published by Sternberg Press
English
448 pages
15 x 21 cm
Softcover
ISBN 978-3-95679-301-1

Price: 250 lei (€50)

In today’s increasingly digitalized and neoliberal societies, debates on universals and specifics have gained new momentum. This volume situates the contemporary return to universal claims and concepts in the fields of art, architecture, and urbanism, and highlights the interrelation of the specific and the universal in diverse historical situations from the nineteenth century to the present. The collection’s essays thus venture an epistemic shift of the concept of universality: from essence to modality, from the abstract and static to the performative and productive.

Contributions by URSULA BIEMANN, ARIANE VARELA BRAGA, GAIA CARAMELLINO, MANUEL SHVARTZBERG CARRIÓ, KHADIJA VON ZINNENBURG CARROLL, JOHAN F. HARTLE, SAMIA HENNI, CHRISTA KAMLEITHNER, ANNE KOCKELKORN, FILIPPO DE PIERI, KATARZYNA RUCHEL-STOCKMANS, EMILY E. SCOTT, LAILA SEEWANG, ALLA VRONSKAYA, ANDREW STEFAN WEINER, NINA ZSCHOCKE