Total Urban Mobilisation

In this book Krzysztof Nawratek explores the possibility of a post-capitalist city, and in so doing, reclaims and develops the idea of total mobilisation as originally formulated by Ernst Junger. Nawratek formulates the idea of 'accumulation of agency' the ability to act, to replace the logic of capital accumulation as a main driver of urban development. He argues that this 'accumulation of agency' operates already in contemporary cities, and should not be seen as essential element of capitalism, but as a conceptual gateway to a post-capitalist world.

Defines the conditions required to discuss post-capitalism and post-capitalist city models beyond a Marxist intellectual framework An innovative approach within urban theory examining the idea ('project') of a post-capitalist city from a non-Marxist perspective Explains how the logic of accumulation of agency, which operates in contemporary cities, should not be seen as essential element of capitalism, but as a conceptual gateway to a post-capitalist world Valuable resource for academics and postgraduate students within disciplines connected to urban issues, in particular human geography, urban planning, architecture and urban design

Autorentext
Dr Krzysztof Nawratek is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Sheffield. He published City as a Political Idea (2011), Holes in the Whole: Introduction to the Urban Revolutions (2012), Radical Inclusivity: Architecture and Urbanism (2015), Urban Re-Industrialization (2017) as well as several papers and chapters in edited volumes.

Inhalt
Preface.- Acknowledgements.- 1. Mobilising the Urban.- 2. Territory, Space, Place, and Beyond.- 3. The Spatiality of (Post-)Capitalism.- 4. The House and the City as Capitalist/Post-Capitalist Hybrids.- 5. Top-Down Revolutions. Negative and Positive Autonomy.- 6. 'The Horizon of the Whole' (Against Totalitarianism and Reductivism).- 7. Borders, Interfaces and Infrastructure.- 8. Nomadism and Partisanship.- 9. Assemblages, Series, and Empire.- 10. City of Agency.