{"product_id":"the-urban-apparatus-mediapolitics-and-the-city-posthumanities-9781517901196","title":"The Urban Apparatus: Mediapolitics and the City (Posthumanities)","description":"\u003cp\u003eUrbanization is a system of power and knowledge  and todays city functions through the expansive material infrastructures of the urban order. In The Urban Apparatus  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. Blending critical philosophy  political theory  and media theory  The Urban Apparatus 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 topicsfrom 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? The Urban Apparatus serves as an urban bookend to the architectural questions explored by Martin in his earlier book Utopias Ghost  and ultimately offers readers a way to think politically about urbanization.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45666216411189,"sku":"ByrdShop_1517901197","price":41.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781517901196.jpg?v=1782423682","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-urban-apparatus-mediapolitics-and-the-city-posthumanities-9781517901196","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}