The Human Condition.
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...urban age, Gleeson’s take is closer to that of Brenner and Schmid’s with a powerful critique of the glib optimism of the ‘urbanologists’ and their environmental determinism and technoscientific solutions. He confidently pulls apart the triumphant conceptualisations of sustainable/compact/smart city solutions and shows they’re based on spatial fetishism and ecological fallacy. A Marxist analysis of urbanism’s ‘reactionary potential of professional conception and aspiration’ concludes that anyway ecological fixes don’t work, and that planning in particular ‘has set the horizons of its ambitions too far from its ground of influence’ (Gleeson 2014, 78). Gleeson’s object is to consider prospects for a new urban dispensation and ‘plot the way to new shores, to a safer, more resilient city that provides for human flourishing’ (n.p.). We’re hanging on his every word. But first he must take us through troubled waters. Unlike Harvey (2000, 259) for whom the world order is ‘unhinged’ by a stock market crash, and Merrifield (2014) whose revolution is precipitated by many global insurrections, Gleeson’s (2014, 111) catalyst for ‘a terminal crisis of capitalist modernity’ arrives through climate change....
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...Gleeson’s recent book draws on Brenner and Theodore’s (2005) ‘Neoliberalism and the Urban Condition’ and Arendt’s (1958) The Human Condition to define the contemporary urban condition as perilously over-consuming....
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...…scholarship thus also intertwines “scientific” and “emancipatory” knowledge motives (Habermas, 1972), emphasizing the importance of knowledge to action, not only in the sense of being “applied,” but in the sense of a vita activa or a socially reflective, politically active life (Arendt, 1958)....
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...Self-consciously critical scholarship thus also intertwines “scientific” and “emancipatory” knowledge motives (Habermas, 1972), emphasizing the importance of knowledge to action, not only in the sense of being “applied,” but in the sense of a vita activa or a socially reflective, politically active life (Arendt, 1958)....
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