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urn:uuid:20c896aa-772c-4d01-8df6-d33476a9a1d8 03 15 9781911712572 00 EB E101 10 10 02 29965241 01 02 RGS-IBG book series 01 01 Nonauthoritarian Authority Cities, Materiality, and the Aesthetics of Power 1 A01 Julian Brigstocke <p>Julian Brigstocke is a Reader in Human Geography at Cardiff University, UK. He is a social theorist with expertise in Geohumanities, cultural, social and historical geography, and philosophy of geography. His research focuses on both historical and contemporary studies of spaces and politics of aesthetics, authority, borders, and bodies in Bristol, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, and Hong Kong.</p> 01 eng 23 Authority 23 Geography 04 GN 10 SOC015000 10 POL062000 23 Speculative 23 Nonauthoritarian 23 Power 23 Pluralising worlds 23 Urban spaces 23 Cities 01 06 03 00 <p>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 non-authoritarian authority: a form of power that pluralises marginalised and hidden voices, recognises diverse agencies, and amplifies heterogeneous demands. </p><p>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 non-authoritarian 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. </p><p>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.</p> 04 00 1. Authority and modernity 2. Attuning to emergent, everyday, ordinary authorities 3. Spaces and aesthetics of authority 4. Four speculative figures of authority: attention, care, birth, attunement 5. Lectio divina – reading Arendt’s ‘What is authority?’ 6. Authority, authorship, form, and genre: a horoscope for the neurotic and paranoid 7. Atmospheric authority and emotional borderwork in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro 8. Landscapes of thinking, or, where am I when I think? 9. Granular authority, bureaucracy, and the aesthetics of sand in colonial Hong Kong 10. Authority, modernity, and the factory of emotions 11. Speculative provocations for a nonauthoritarian authority LSE Press 01 LSE Press 04 01 20260326 02 WORLD 06 15 9781911712558 06 15 9781911712565 06 15 9781911712572 06 15 9781911712589 WORLD 09 LSE Press 20 01