Architecture of Neoliberalism : how contemporary architecture became an instrument of control and compliance / Douglas Spencer

Introduction: Architecture, Neoliberalism and the Game of Truth-- 1. The Art of Neoliberal Governmentality-- 2. The Spatial Constitution of the Neoliberal Subject-- 3. Architecture Theory: From May '68 to the 'Real' of the Market-- 4. Labour Theory: Architecture, Work and Neoliberalism-- 5. Festivals of Circulation: Neoliberal Architectures of Culture, Commerce and Eduction-- 6. Neoliberalism and Effect: Architecture and the Patterning of Experience--Conclusion: The Necessity of Critique--Bibliography.

Neoliberalism is a project to remake us, and our world, according to a purely economic rationality. In societies where the logic of the market reigns unopposed we must fashion our lives as entrepreneurial endeavors. We must be networked, in constant circulation, opportunistic. The Architecture of Neoliberalism pursues an uncompromising critique of architecture's part in this neoliberal turn. This book reveals how a self-styled parametric, post-critical and projection architecture serves mechanisms of control and compliance while promoting itself as progressive.