Boano, C;
(2020)
Forms of (Collective) Life: The Ontoethics of Inhabitation.
Architecture and Culture
, 8
(3-4)
pp. 549-563.
10.1080/20507828.2020.1802199.
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Abstract
Is there space for an ontological urban design? Or better still, following the words of Elisabeth Grosz, is there space for an “ontoethics” of the urban? While contributing to the reflection on the role of ethics as a relational practice, this paper is digging back into the notion of forms-of-life in Giorgio Agamben’s political reflections, aiming to foreground a possible ethics of the city. This aims to highlight the implications that ontology and ethics have in constructing a politics of life as they bring differences in how we live, act, what we value and how we produce and design. Particularly, to substantiate such ethics, three key characteristics of an affirmative life are put forward: the capacity to care and to connect; the capacity to repair, endure and hold together; as well as to imagine and experiment alternative life-forces to oppose politics of oppression and capitalist extraction of values.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Forms of (Collective) Life: The Ontoethics of Inhabitation |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/20507828.2020.1802199 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/20507828.2020.1802199 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | forms-of-life, ontology, collective life, ethics |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > Development Planning Unit |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10104943 |
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