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Eric Berg
reviewed Power and the State on December 25, 2015
Power and the State
Some notes on this book as I'm reading it:
Reading this has exposed me to the soft underbelly of architecture in that it has little to do with engineering or science. It's mostly subjective and in the domain of postmodern art.
The book posits a lot of stuff but it's shoddy scientific underpinning mostly negates any point that could have been made. The author makes no pretention to be objective or give a balanced view and uses quotes, philosophers and facts self-servingly. The content is somewhat outdated and overly pessimistic and the writing is obscurantist with words being made up on the spot for anything and everything.
That being said the book is far from worthless. This style of writing and mixing and matching world philosophy (or just that part of it that you have read or you find agreeable) is probably exemplary for the entire field of postmodern humanities. So it is good to be exposed to that mode of discourse.
And the problem of 'capsularization' in society is definitely a real one, though when you define capsule to be anything and everything, you're problem loses a lot of its force. Though real it may be, I don't think it is as bad or will turn out as bad as the author says it will, nor that postmodern philosophers are the right people to save us.
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