Non-authoritarian Authority
Authority is not a word with many positive connotations. It suggests power-hungry dictators, trigger-happy police, stifling bureaucracies, and monumental urban landscapes. In Nonauthoritarian Authority Julian Brigstocke argues that in these shattered times, anti-authoritarianism is not enough: a rad...
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| description | Authority is not a word with many positive connotations. It suggests power-hungry dictators, trigger-happy police, stifling bureaucracies, and monumental urban landscapes. In Nonauthoritarian Authority Julian Brigstocke argues that in these shattered times, anti-authoritarianism is not enough: a radical, speculative reinvention of authority is needed. He introduces the idea of nonauthoritarian authority: a form of power that pluralises marginalised and hidden voices, recognises diverse agencies, and amplifies heterogeneous demands. Engaging with key philosophical debates around materiality, experience, feeling, agency, and landscape, Nonauthoritarian Authority stages a series of experiments with thinking, reading, researching, and writing nonauthoritarian authority. Dramatising a speculative search for barely sensed, dispersed authorities, Brigstocke’s experiments in thinking explore the intrinsically spatial nature of authority, through empirical studies of violent urban borders in Rio de Janeiro, colonial material infrastructures in Hong Kong, monumental architecture in Paris, and everyday spaces of encounter in the UK. Offering an intricate and playful reflection on the relationship between authority, urban forms, and writing, each exercise in thinking links form and genre to a distinctive way of imagining authority. Each chapter simultaneously critiques a form of authoritarian authority and searches for a new, nonauthoritarian authority within the rubble of the old. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1757152026-05-04T19:31:27Z Non-authoritarian Authority Brigstocke, Julian Authority Cities Nonauthoritarian Pluralising worlds Power Speculative Urban spaces thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography::RGC Human geography Authority is not a word with many positive connotations. It suggests power-hungry dictators, trigger-happy police, stifling bureaucracies, and monumental urban landscapes. In Nonauthoritarian Authority Julian Brigstocke argues that in these shattered times, anti-authoritarianism is not enough: a radical, speculative reinvention of authority is needed. He introduces the idea of nonauthoritarian authority: a form of power that pluralises marginalised and hidden voices, recognises diverse agencies, and amplifies heterogeneous demands. Engaging with key philosophical debates around materiality, experience, feeling, agency, and landscape, Nonauthoritarian Authority stages a series of experiments with thinking, reading, researching, and writing nonauthoritarian authority. Dramatising a speculative search for barely sensed, dispersed authorities, Brigstocke’s experiments in thinking explore the intrinsically spatial nature of authority, through empirical studies of violent urban borders in Rio de Janeiro, colonial material infrastructures in Hong Kong, monumental architecture in Paris, and everyday spaces of encounter in the UK. Offering an intricate and playful reflection on the relationship between authority, urban forms, and writing, each exercise in thinking links form and genre to a distinctive way of imagining authority. Each chapter simultaneously critiques a form of authoritarian authority and searches for a new, nonauthoritarian authority within the rubble of the old. 2026-04-20T08:29:11Z 2026-04-20T08:29:11Z 2026-04-16T13:46:08Z 2026 book ONIX_20260415T184307_9781911712565_2 2996-5233 (Print) 2996-5241 (Online) https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/112600 9781911712565 9781911712558 9781911712572 9781911712589 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/175715 eng RGS-IBG Book Series open access image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/112600/1/9781911712565.pdf LSE Press LSE Press 10.31389/lsepress.noa 10.31389/lsepress.noa 74dc3a2f-c8d1-428d-b77c-3bec749428da 9781911712565 9781911712558 9781911712572 9781911712589 LSE Press 270 London, UK open access |
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