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Non-Places of immaterial labour – architecture’s dildotopia? / Andreas Rumpfhuber

01 30th, 2010

As in Beatriz Preciado’s contra-sexual manifesto, we can understand the program of architecture as a technology. We need to accept that architecture as such is political, that it organizes practices and that it judges whatever practices there are: be it public or private, be it institutional or homely, be it social or intimate. And we need to understand that the program of a specific architecture is being established through the detour of spatial and temporal limits of architecture. But it is not the open quality of the neutral container or the endless qualtity-less plane per-se that forms a potentially emancipatory aspect of architecture and of space. It is exactly the contra-productivity performed within these spaces that not only breaks up the prevailing power-structures, but also produces an empty free space for an alternative production within the system.

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