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Les infrastructures disputent à l'architecture le pouvoir politique de faire image. Elles incarnent, comme elle, la puissance d'une nation et la volonté d'en prolonger l'héritage. Cette évidence doit aujourd'hui être relativisée, tant sont vacillants les contextes dans lesquels les infrastructures sont bâties, gérées ou encore transformées. Après la crise du progrès, l'effondrement des empires coloniaux ou des totalitarismes, à l'époque de la dématérialisation des technologies et de la multiplication des risques environnementaux, la question de la durée et de la représentativité des infrastructures devient toujours plus problématique. Que dire en effet de leur résistance, de leur adaptabilité ou de leur valeur de témoignage dès lors que l'aura qu'elles étaient censées représenter s'affaiblit et que l'ancrage territorial ne constitue plus une de leurs données? En analysant des exemples d'infrastructures produites dans plusieurs contextes politiques – la dictature militaire brésilienne, le socialisme soviétique, le colonialisme d'Indochine ou encore la démocratie participative du « capitalocène » – cet ouvrage révèle combien leur rôle symbolique se renouvelle de manière imprévisible. Il en interroge également les destins potentiels, dans la cristallisation des imaginaires politiques à venir, entre actualisations de modèles anciens et fictions postapocalyptiques. Enfin, il se penche sur la résistance qu'opposent les infrastructures aux perpétuelles mutations de la ville contemporaine, et montre dans quelle mesure elles permettent d'assurer l'ajustement entre le réel et les imaginaires qui traversent l'espace urbain.
Cities and towns --- Infrastructures (Architecture) --- Political meaning. --- Politique urbaine. --- Architecture --- Architecture et politique. --- Politique publique. --- Architecture et politique --- Urban transportation policy --- Transportation --- Transports urbains --- Infrastructures de transport --- Equipment and supplies --- Politique gouvernementale --- Politique urbaine --- Infrastructure de transport --- Transport --- Bâtiment public --- Image de l'architecture
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From the color of a politician's tie, to exorbitantly costly haircuts, to the size of an American flag pin adorning a lapel, it's no secret that style has political meaning. And there was no time in history when the politics of fashion was more fraught than during the French Revolution. In the 1790s almost any article of clothing could be scrutinized for evidence of one's political affiliation. A waistcoat with seventeen buttons, for example, could be a sign of counterrevolution-a reference to Louis XVII-and earn its wearer a trip to the guillotine. In Dandyism in the Age of Revolution, Elizabeth Amann shows that in France, England, and Spain, daring dress became a way of taking a stance toward the social and political upheaval of the period. France is the centerpiece of the story, not just because of the significance of the Revolution but also because of the speed with which its politics and fashions shifted. Dandyism in France represented an attempt to recover a political center after the extremism of the Terror, while in England and Spain it offered a way to reflect upon the turmoil across the Channel and Pyrenees. From the Hair Powder Act, which required users of the product to purchase a permit, to the political implications of the feather in Yankee Doodle's hat, Amann aims to revise our understanding of the origins of modern dandyism and to recover the political context from which it emerged.
History of civilization --- anno 1700-1799 --- France --- Dandyism --- History --- Political aspects --- Social aspects. --- literary studies, literature, political meaning, politics, style, fashion, clothing, what you wear, french revolution, european countries, party affiliation, personal beliefs, waistcoat, buttons, counterrevolution, england, spain, france, history, english, spanish, upheaval, unrest, hair powder act, implications, yankee doodle, dandy, dandyism, historical research.
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From the color of a politician's tie, to exorbitantly costly haircuts, to the size of an American flag pin adorning a lapel, it's no secret that style has political meaning. And there was no time in history when the politics of fashion was more fraught than during the French Revolution. In the 1790s almost any article of clothing could be scrutinized for evidence of one's political affiliation. A waistcoat with seventeen buttons, for example, could be a sign of counterrevolution-a reference to Louis XVII-and earn its wearer a trip to the guillotine. In Dandyism in the Age of Revolution, Elizabeth Amann shows that in France, England, and Spain, daring dress became a way of taking a stance toward the social and political upheaval of the period. France is the centerpiece of the story, not just because of the significance of the Revolution but also because of the speed with which its politics and fashions shifted. Dandyism in France represented an attempt to recover a political center after the extremism of the Terror, while in England and Spain it offered a way to reflect upon the turmoil across the Channel and Pyrenees. From the Hair Powder Act, which required users of the product to purchase a permit, to the political implications of the feather in Yankee Doodle's hat, Amann aims to revise our understanding of the origins of modern dandyism and to recover the political context from which it emerged.
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