Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-228) and index.

Aesthetics, politics, and architecture. Metropolitics, or, architecture and the contemporary left / David Cunningham -- Modern democracy and aesthetic revolution in the work of Ranci�ere: reflections on historical causality / Gabriel Rockhill -- Unfaithful reflections: re-actualizing Benjamin's aestheticism thesis / Libero Andreotti -- Political subjectification and the architectural dispositif / Nadir Lahiji -- The political and the critique of architecture. Capitalism and the politics of autonomy / Gevork Hartoonian -- Architecture as such: notes on generic(ness) and labor sans phrase / Francesco Marullo -- Thoughts on agency, utopia and property in contemporary architectural and urban theory / George Baird -- Metalepsis of the site of exception / Donald Kunze -- The post-political and contemporary urbanism. The architecture of managerialism: OMA, CCTV, and the post-political / Douglas Spencer -- Zero points: urban space and the political subject / Uta Gelbke -- To fill the earth: architecture in a spaceless universe / Ross Exo Adams -- From post-political to agonistic: Warsaw urban space since 1989 / Lidia Klein.