By Jack Halberstam<\/p>\n
A revolutionary way of seeing bodies and built environment that unites radical politics and trans aesthetics.<\/p>\n
Anarchitecture, a radical aesthetic practice of unmaking the built environment, staged a vigorous confrontation with urban renewal and gentrification projects in the 1970s. In Anarchitecture After Everything: A Trans Manifesto<\/em>, Jack Halberstam identifies a powerful lexicon of transformation within anarchitecture, joining the movement\u2019s practices of cutting and splitting with the destabilising power of transness to detonate acts of formal violence in our time.<\/p>\n Anarchitecture describes the aesthetic practice of splitting and cutting, dismantling and undoing, unmaking, unbuilding, and ultimately unworlding. The trans body splits bodily coherence, dismantles the gender binary, and unbuilds bodily meaning. In these chapters, Gordon Matta-Clark\u2019s cuts, along with Alvin Baltrop\u2019s 1970s images of collapsing warehouses and Beverly Buchanan\u2019s post-demolition fragmentary sculptures, return with a vengeance through the contemporary aesthetic gestures of Yve Laris Cohen, Jesse Darling, Nicole Eisenman, Kiyan Williams, Cassils, boychild, and Every Ocean Hughes. Anarchitecture unmakes space and offers a new rhetoric for emptiness. In its conclusion, the book explores this rhetoric through Renee Gladman\u2019s anarchitectural experiments with language.<\/p>\n By reading anarchitecture through transness and transness through anarchitecture, Halberstam helps us see the trans body as a space of radical unmaking and as a portal to new lexicons for transformation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Cambridge, MA, 2026, 24 x 16 cm, 296pp. illustrated, Paperback.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":27666,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[112,130,133],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-27667","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-architecture-history-theory","product_cat-art","product_cat-cultural-theory-philosophy","first","instock","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"mb":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"mfb_rest_fields":["title","jetpack_sharing_enabled"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookshop.aaschool.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/product\/27667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookshop.aaschool.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookshop.aaschool.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookshop.aaschool.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookshop.aaschool.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookshop.aaschool.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_brand&post=27667"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookshop.aaschool.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_cat&post=27667"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookshop.aaschool.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_tag&post=27667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}