This Thing Called Theory

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgments -- 1 This thing called theory -- Part I: Theories and histories -- 2 Manfredo Tafuri and the death of architecture -- 3 Theories and history of architecture (museums) -- 4 Architecture in/out of the boudoir? The autonomy of architecture and the architecture of autonomy -- 5 Repositioning. Before theory -- Part II: Between history and philosophy -- 6 Which 'humanism'? On the Italian theory of architecture, 1951-1969

7 Philosophical thinking as political praxis: Giorgio Agamben and inoperative architecture -- 8 Affective encounters amidst feminist futures in architecture? -- 9 Repositioning. The after(s) and the end(s) of theory -- Part III: Beyond the image -- 10 Drawing Jerusalem: notes on Hans Bol's Jerusalem, with Christ and the Good Shepherd (1575) -- 11 Architectural drawing: architecture's speculative visual history -- 12 God's eye view -- Part IV: Critical displays -- 13 Aktion 507: politics become theory become praxis

14 Architecture and the neo avant-garde: some theories of history in architectural criticism -- 15 Exhibits that matter: material gestures with theoretical stakes -- 16 Repositioning. This think called crit ... -- Part V: Theories of things -- 17 Pragmatics: towards a theory of things -- 18 Ready, steady, cook with Bergson, Plato and Gordon Matta-Clark -- 19 Architecture's thing and the thingness of theory -- Part VI: The transactions of architecture -- 20 Architecture and the promise of post-capitalism -- 21 Domestic, production, debt: for a theory of the informal

22 White, wide and scattered: picturing her housing career -- 23 Toward a theory of Interior -- 24 Repositioning. Theory now. Don't excavate, change reality! -- Part VII: Forms of engagement -- 25 (Un)political -- 26 Prince complex: narcissism and reproduction of the architectural mirror -- 27 Less than enough: a critique of Aureli's project -- 28 Repositioning. Having ideas -- 29 Post-scriptum. 'But that is not enough' -- Index

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