VI PER announces the publication of a new book Against an Architecture of Neoliberal Technocracy: Lessons from (the Dissolution of) the Architecture of the Welfare State in Britain by Eleni Axioti.
As another history of the present, Against an Architecture of Neoliberal Technocracy: Lessons from (the Dissolution of) the Architecture of the Welfare State in Britain problematises the contemporary disappearance of the architectures of social welfare. It addresses the dismantling of the welfare state in Britain and the transition to a state of neoliberal technocracy. The book argues that it was through the proliferation of specific technocratic operations in the production of the built environment that these changes became possible and the deployment of neoliberal forms of governance were facilitated as actions at a distance that direct our behaviours. It aims to be a critique, and a call, to re-define the role of architecture as a mechanism of social governance where the use value of architecture is prioritised against its subjective exchange value.
Eleni Axioti is Lecturer and Year Co-ordinator in History and Theory Studies at the Architectural Association School of Architecture and Lecturer at University of the Arts London (CSM & LCC). She has been trained and worked as an engineer (MEng. AUTh), while she holds a PhD and an MA in Histories and Theories of Architecture from the AA. Her research focuses on architectural history in regard to issues of political economy, social policy and government.
Author: Eleni Axioti
Proofreading: Dena Ziari
Graphic design: Anežka Hrubá Ciglerová, publikum.design
Published by VI PER Gallery, Prague, 2024
120 pages
Language: English
First edition
ISBN 978-80-908433-6-3
This book is published as an output of VI PER Gallery’s writing grant within the LINA platform.
Supported by the Ministry of Culture Czech Republic, City of Prague and State Fund of Culture of the Czech Republic.
