Mediators: Aesthetics, Politics, and the City

by Reinhold Martin

Reinhold Martin's Mediators is a series of linked meditations on the globalized city. Focusing on infrastructural, technical, and social systems, Martin explores how the aesthetics and the political economy of cities overlap and interact. He discusses a range of subjects, including the architecture of finance written into urban policy, regimes of enumeration that remix city and country, fictional ecologies that rewrite biopolitics, the ruins...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081669687X
• ISBN13: 9780816696871
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 60 Pages
• Weight: 0.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 4.9" x 6.8"