Hyperbuilding: Spectacle, Speculation, and the Hyperspace of Sovereignty

Worlding Cities: Asian Experiments and the Art of being Global

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 205-226

  Ong, Aihwa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

CCTV, Chinese Central Television, state mouthpiece controlling media, in the name of "cultural security"; Frederic Jameson's views, on urban spectacles global circulation of corporate sign values; Hyperbuilding, as worlding practice urban spectacle, neoliberal logic of maximization; Hyperbuilding, spectacle, speculation and hyperspace of sovereignty; Hyperbuilding, the hyperspace moving east state's role in building exceptional structures; Proliferation of metropolitan spectacles, in Asia new cultural regime, striking skylines; Singapore's models of science parks, biotechnology hubs spawned copycat projects, in cities; Spectacle, in a set of technologies forms of hegemony, thwarting social change; Spectacular architecture, as handiwork of corporate capital, in urban market colonization; Two kinds of hyperbuilding logic at work in Asian cities

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864054744     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444346800.ch8     Document Type: Chapter

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