Foam City
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7093735 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter Sloterdijk (Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 47-59 |
| Publication date | 2008-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Distinktion Journal of Social Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1600-910X • E-ISSN: 2159-9149 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1600910x.2008.9672955 |
| OpenAlex | W4255338594 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
| References cited | 2 |
Politics and political collectives are not merely symbolic phenomena. They are anchored physically in space and of ten supported by particular architectural representations. This article analyzes a specific example of this, namely the French Revolution and its immediate aftermath, and demonstrates how architectural designs were integral to establishing an assembly for the post-revolutionary collective. The article focuses on the Fête de la Fédération of July 14, 1790, celebrated on the first anniversary of the storming of the Bastille. The author argues that the architectural staging of this spectacle served to generate an embodiment of the nation, enhanced by affective and acoustic measures. While the article is mainly concerned with the architectural technologies of politics related to the French Revolution, it also points beyond this specific historical case and briefly indicates how 20th-century fascisms used techniques that were prefigured by 18th-century French inventions
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Architectural engineering · Art · Art history · Industrial Revolution · Linguistics · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Spectacle · Engineering · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law · Philosophy · Visual Culture and Art Theory
Immunitary Life
Organizational Atmospheres
Die Emergenz der Masse – zur Urbanität im globalen Süden
The Mobile Parliament
The spandrels of urban security
Crowds and plebiscitary representation
Revisiting the urban cosmos—an intervention into the politics of urban assemblages
The EU-Quarter as a political place
Introduction
Foam architecture
Security beyond Biopolitics
The Co-Ontological Securities of Gated Lifeworlds
Emergence of the Revolutionary Subject
Different Atmospheres
We Blame the Building! The Architecture of Distributed Responsibility
Geopolitics as Architecture
Our other Others
Splintering Spheres of Security
Crowd theory and the management of crowds
| Unique citing works | 19 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,06 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2025 (18) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 19 |