{"product_id":"the-urban-apparatus-mediapolitics-and-the-city-9781517901196","title":"The Urban Apparatus: Mediapolitics and the City","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Reinhold Martin\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Criticism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUrbanization is a system of power and knowledge, and today's city functions through the expansive material infrastructures of the urban order. In \u003ci\u003eThe Urban Apparatus\u003c\/i\u003e, Reinhold Martin analyzes urbanization and the contemporary city in aesthetic, socioeconomic, and mediapolitical terms. He argues that understanding the city as infrastructure reveals urbanization to be a way of imparting functional, aesthetic, and cognitive order to a contradictory, doubly bound neoliberal regime.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlending critical philosophy, political theory, and media theory, \u003ci\u003eThe Urban Apparatus\u003c\/i\u003e explores how the aesthetics of cities and their political economies overlap. In a series of ten essays, with a detailed theoretical introduction, Martin explores questions related to urban life, drawn from a wide range of global topics--from the fiscal crisis in Detroit to speculative development in Mumbai to the landscape of Mars, from discussions of race and the environment to housing and economic inequality. Each essay proposes a particular \"mediator\" (or a material complex) that is shaped by imaginative practices, each answering the question \"What is a city, today?\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Urban Apparatus\u003c\/i\u003e serves as an \"urban\" bookend to the architectural questions explored by Martin in his earlier book \u003ci\u003eUtopia's Ghost, \u003c\/i\u003e and ultimately offers readers a way to think politically about urbanization.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47890287919255,"sku":"9781517901196","price":3248.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781517901196.webp?v=1781179393","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-urban-apparatus-mediapolitics-and-the-city-9781517901196","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}