Seminar 24th April

Next week we'll have a seminar, exactly where will be decided on Monday.

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Everyone re-reads the previous texts and books:

David Harvey: A Brief History of Neoliberalism (2005)
Slavoj Zizek: First as tragedy, then as farce (2009)
Markus Wolf: Unfettered finance is fast reshaping the global economy, from Financial Times, June 18th 2007
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Then we have 7 new texts: books and excerpts

1. Owen Hatherley: A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain (2010) – Chapters: Introduction + Southampton
An inventory and critical analysis of recent projects in UK by the critic Owen Hatherley. These reports have been published previously as Urban Trawl in the British magazine Building Design.

2. Mike Davis (ed.): Evil Paradises: Dreamworlds of Neoliberalism (2008) – Chapters: Introduction + Chapter 3: Sand, Fear, and Money in Dubai (Mike Davis) + Capital of Chaos (Anthony Fotenot + Ajmal Maiwandi)
Mike Davis, perhaps most known for his description of Los Angeles in City of Quartz, has edited a collection of urban phenomena and casestudies worldwide created by a neoliberal logic.

3. Carmen M. Reinhart & Kenneth S. Rogoff: This Time is Different (2009) – pp. x-xlv +1-20
A survey of eight centuries of financial follies, at times a bit technical but the best overview and survey on the subject.

4. David Graeber: Debt, The First 5000 Years (2011) – pp. 361–
Graeber is an anthropologist and activist in the Occupy-movement who wrote this survey on concept of debt. Compare with the French historian Jacques Le Goff’s account of the early development of lending of money.

5. Roemer van Toorn: Fresh Conservatism (1997)
An essay by Dutch architectural theorist Toorn amidst the boom of Dutch architecture in the 90-s when MVRDV, OMA et al started a global media career.

6. Sam Jacobs: The Ruins of the Future (2008)
Jacobs is part of FAT (Fashion Architecture Taste), a London based office, but also a writer and journalist, the short essay is a reflection on the state of things in 2008.

7. David Harvey: The Right to the City (2008)
Marxist geographer and the author to Brief History of Neoliberalism, on the city.
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We'll be in two groups. Everyone reads two texts and browse at least the rest of the texts. If you need  to change, please let me know.

10:00
Owen Hatherley + Sam Jacobs: Bergis Louis, Westman Rasmus
Mike Davis + Roemer van Toorn: Pajares de la Peña Jorge, Lane Jordan
Reinhart + Rogoff + Sam Jacobs: Alan Devrim, Elizalde Adrian,
Graeber + Harvey: Delibas Döne, Vila Reyes Marina

13:00
Owen Hatherley + Sam Jacobs:Hennessey Clive, Bokor Jacqueline,
Mike Davis + Roemer van Toorn: Reimer Valentina, Räsänen Iida Maria
Reinhart + Rogoff + Sam Jacobs: Owczarczyk Grzegorz, Chrysovergis Stavros
Graeber + Harvey: Vila Reyes Marina