La conspiración de la arquitectura: notas sobre la ansiedad moderna

China  Miéville; Gemma  Barricarte

doi:10.5209/revi.106182

La conspiración de la arquitectura: notas sobre la ansiedad moderna

China Miéville
Gemma Barricarte

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/revi.106182

Keywords: Marxism, Modernity, Anxiety, Modernist Architecture, Otherness, Commodity fetichism, Cultural Studies, House-creature, Lefebvre, Bachelard

Abstract

We, the residents of modernity, live in an unquiet house. This essay examines the relationship between human subjects and their built environment, but it does so less by focusing on architecture than on what one might call “architecture once removed'. It is less concerned with the built environment itself than with a prevalent image of that environment in “high” and “popular” culture, in literature, in film and painting. It is my contention that a particular unsettling image of buildings has gained increasing currency in the modern epoch. I will attempt to show that such an image — and a concomitant anxiety — exists, and to offer an explanation for its provenance.

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2025-12-18

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Miéville C. . y Barricarte G. . (2025). La conspiración de la arquitectura: notas sobre la ansiedad moderna. Re-visiones, 15(2), e106182. https://doi.org/10.5209/revi.106182