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The Blob and the Block. When the Rhetoric of the Smooth and the Striated went all wrong

by Beatriz V. Toscano

pp. 200-222 Issue 7 (4,1) – January-June 2017 ISSN (online): 2539/2239 ISSN (print): 2389-8232 DOI: 1017450/170112

Abstract

This paper conforms to a view of architecture and the distribution of urban space as bio-political parameters of dominance and resistance. Using G. Deleuze & F. Guattari’s seminal essay on 1444. The Smooth and the Striated, I intend to show how Global Capitalism, by replicating the discourse of the smooth and the ungraspable, has voided Dialectics of its subversive potential.

Keywords

global capitalism, public space, biopolitics, Architectural parametricism, Deleuze & Guattari
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