Brutalism Local Interest the lives and deaths bound

the lives and deaths bound up in it feel all the more real

An intimate

with their faces turned up to the midday sun

and recipient of the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguish Contribution to American Letters

why Stalin's cook taught Gorbachev's cook to sing to his dough

Brutalism Local Interest the lives and deaths boundTitle: Brutalism Author: Achille Mbembe ISBN: 9781478025580 Publisher: Duke University Press Books Published: 2024 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition Note: New from the publisher Publisher Description: In Brutalism, eminent social and critical theorist Achille Mbembe invokes the architectural aesthetic of brutalism to describe our moment, caught up in the pathos of demolition and production on a planetary scale. Just as brutalist