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Biopolitics (revision of the term)
social life controlled by economic drivers (Hardt & Negree)
big society biopolitical? (why is everything not biopolitical?)
to control certain defined groups
a group of people being forced financially into an area. (Yates Mckee)
bottom up system anti-biopolitical? squats empowering themselves and choosing what land to occupy. Usually in quite good areas as there is lots of rubbish to re...
“As it stood, it was a table of additions, much like certain...”
– Henri Michaux. Pg 14. The New Decor.
Presentation Question Ideas.
Health and safety? Guerilla gardening, not much can go wrong, it could in architecture.
Why guerilla architecture? Would it benefit the community? Maybe. Workshops, a community focus etc. Opens up potential for bottom-up approach to design.
Anti biopolitics? People are choosing where they want to live. Land values. Why should they not just take over pieces of land and have a free trade...
The New Decor Exhibition Notes. 2
Hal Foster. Pg 25. ‘…decivilise art’ links back to the ideas related to Primitivism- a different kind of primitive art? ie not about using african style figures but using the aesthetic of, for example, emergency shelters.
all of this about who builds where and what gets built.
re Bachelard, ‘Benign Phenomenology’.
Yes, too obvious and literal but same nice stuff...
The New Decor Exhibition Notes. 1
‘(The New Decor)…defamiliarizes our habitual relationships with the props of our everyday interior.’
Many of the pieces in this exhibition have a similar aesthetic to that which I am interested so it was interesting to read up about it after and find that they have considered many of the same theories as I did for my thesis: words such as everyday, readymade, ad hoc, flexible,...
