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Totalitarian Space and the Destruction of Aura
2019,2024
Overview
We live today within a system in which state and corporate power
aim to render space flat, transparent, and uniform, for only then
can it be truly controlled. The gaze of power and the commodity
form are capable of infiltrating even the darkest of corners, and
often, we invite them into our most private spaces. We do so as a
matter of convenience, but also to placate ourselves and cope with
the alienation inherent in our everyday lives. The resulting
dominant space can best be termed totalitarian. It is space
stripped of uniqueness, deprived of the \"spatial aura\" necessary
for authentic experience. In Totalitarian Space and the
Destruction of Aura , Saladdin Ahmed sets out to help us grasp
what has been lost before no trace remains. He draws attention to
that which we might prefer not to see, but despite the bleakness of
this indictment of reality, the book also offers a message of hope.
Namely, it is only once we comprehend the magnitude of the threat
to our spatial experience and our own complicity in sustaining this
system that we can begin to resist the totalizing forces at work.
Publisher
SUNY Press,State University of New York Press
Subject
ISBN
9781438472935, 1438472935, 1438472919, 9781438472911, 9781438472928, 1438472927
