Capital/Rebel City: London 2012 and the Struggle for Hegemony â Reflections on the Spatiality of Power

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004344013_004

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This essay focuses on the subject of the spatiality of power by analysing contemporary London as a significant object and site in the struggle for and against neoliberal hegemony. The paper consists of two main parts: firstly, a semiotic analysis of the skyscraper called the Shard, completed in 2012, which is read as a spatial equivalent of the reassertion of the powers of capital after the financial crisis of 2007â08; and secondly, a discussion of two sets of âspatial practices,â conceived as interventions in a more general struggle over the âcommon senseâ of the masses: the celebrations on the occasion of the Queenâs Diamond Jubilee on the one hand and Occupy London on the other.

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London post-2010 in British Literature and Culture

Series:Â Spatial Practices, Volume: 24

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004344013

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 20 Jun 2017

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- Literature and Cultural Studies
  - Criticism & Theory
  - English & Anglophone
- Social Sciences
  - Cultural Studies
  - Global Studies

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