Total Urban Mobilisation

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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 Jünger. 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. Front Matter ....Pages i-xiii Mobilising the Urban (Krzysztof Nawratek)....Pages 1-9 Territory, Space, Place, and Beyond (Krzysztof Nawratek)....Pages 11-21 The Spatiality of (Post-)Capitalism (Krzysztof Nawratek)....Pages 23-28 The House and the City as Capitalist/Post-Capitalist Hybrids (Krzysztof Nawratek)....Pages 29-35 Top-Down Revolutions. Negative and Positive Autonomy (Krzysztof Nawratek)....Pages 37-46 ‘The Horizon of the Whole’ (Against Totalitarianism and Reductivism) (Krzysztof Nawratek)....Pages 47-53 Borders, Interfaces and Infrastructure (Krzysztof Nawratek)....Pages 55-68 Nomadism and Partisanship (Krzysztof Nawratek)....Pages 69-78 Assemblages, Series, and Empire (Krzysztof Nawratek)....Pages 79-89 City of Agency (Krzysztof Nawratek)....Pages 91-98 Back Matter ....Pages 99-104