Just finishing Henri Lefebvre’s The Urban Revolution, originally published in France in 1970 as La Révolution urbaine. Not only does Lefebvre engage with contemporary Focaultian precepts—notably épisteme and hétérotopie (as Neil Smith sagaciously notes in his preface to the English translation), as well as indirectly presume a certain intellectual and textual fabric that is distinctly Deleuzien à la temps, although he does not enter into direct dialogue with Deleuze’s key terms—but he also presciently conceptualizes the dual forces of neoliberalism and neo-dirigisme (state planning/design) that enter into dialectical struggle to dominate the urban phenomenon (through an ideological formation that he names “urbanism”), but he also directly theorizes the “global city” (in ways that precede and indubitably inform the work of Saskia Sassen). Has anyone out there read this text; and if so, are you interested in discussing?
Posted on: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 01:57:51 +0000
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