Architecture Post Mortem surveys architecture’s encounter with death; decline; and ruination following late capitalism. As the world moves closer to an economic abyss that many perceive to be the death of capital; contraction and crisis are no longer mere phases of normal market fluctuations; but rather the irruption of the unconscious of ideology itself. Post mortem is that historical moment wherein architecture’s symbolic contract with capital is put on stage; naked to all. Architecture is not irrelevant to fiscal and political contagion as is commonly believed; it is the victim and penetrating analytical agent of the current crisis. As the very apparatus for modernity’s guilt and unfulfilled drives-modernity’s debt-architecture is that ideological element that functions as a master signifier of its own destruction; ordering all other signifiers and modes of signification beneath it. It is under these conditions that architecture theory has retreated to an Alamo of history; a final desert outpost where history has been asked to transcend itself. For architecture’s hoped-for utopia always involves an apocalypse. This timely collection of essays reformulates architecture’s relation to modernity via the operational death-drive: architecture is but a passage between life and death.This collection includes essays by Kazi K. Ashraf; David Bertolini; Simone Brott; Peggy Deamer; Didem Ekici; Paul Emmons; Donald Kunze; Todd McGowan; Gevork Hartoonian; Nadir Lahiji; Erika Naginski; and Dennis Maher.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Churchills Finest WorkBy ZaabalawiI believe The Skriker is Churchills finest play; and Ive read them all and seen a number of them. She has woven many of her recurring themes and motifs in this play to dazzling effect: magic and myth; time and timelessness; gender and womanhood; mothering; and the power of the theatre to transform. The play is witty and somber; reassuring and threatening; and brilliantly unpredictable throughout.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Good readBy Jessica DavisonI think any theatre major needs to read this play. Its like modern Jacobean theatre; dark and twisty but highly poetic.0 of 1 people found the following review helpful. not what I thought it would beBy brent rouleauthe play is a very weird piece which is fine but there are certain challenges to mounting it such as language and locations