{"product_id":"nonauthoritarian-authority-julian-brigstocke-9781911712558","title":"Nonauthoritarian Authority: Cities, Materiality, and the Aesthetics of Power","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthority is not a word with many positive connotations. It suggests power-hungry dictators, trigger-happy police, stifling bureaucracies, and monumental urban landscapes. In \u003cem\u003eNonauthoritarian Authority\u003c\/em\u003e 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 nonauthoritarian authority: a form of power that pluralises marginalised and hidden voices, recognises diverse agencies, and amplifies heterogeneous demands. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEngaging with key philosophical debates around materiality, experience, feeling, agency, and landscape, \u003cem\u003eNonauthoritarian Authority\u003c\/em\u003e stages a series of experiments with thinking, reading, researching, and writing nonauthoritarian 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOffering 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Julian Brigstocke\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1911712551\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781911712558\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Lse Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/26\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 270\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.57d","brand":"Julian Brigstocke","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48520289681663,"sku":"9781911712558","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_488b2d7e-6ded-4c01-93c3-03d7151780cd.jpg?v=1778741871","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/nonauthoritarian-authority-julian-brigstocke-9781911712558","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}