Anarchitecture After Everything: A Trans Manifesto

A revolutionary way of seeing bodies and built environment that unites radical politics and trans aesthetics. From...
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Author: Jack Halberstam
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Language: English
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Anarchitecture After Everything: A Trans Manifesto

$41.94

Anarchitecture After Everything: A Trans Manifesto

$41.94
Author: Jack Halberstam
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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A revolutionary way of seeing bodies and built environment that unites radical politics and trans aesthetics.

From a leading author and queer theorist known for reframing many of the most pressing questions about counter-intuitive ways of being.

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, Jack Halberstam identifies a powerful lexicon of transformation within anarchitecture, joining the movement's practices of cutting and splitting with the destabilizing power of transness to detonate acts of formal violence in our time.

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's cuts, along with Alvin Baltrop's 1970s images of collapsing warehouses and Beverly Buchanan's 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's anarchitectural experiments with language.

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.

Author: Jack Halberstam
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 08/18/2026
Pages: 280
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 9.49h x 6.43w x 0.68d
ISBN: 9780262052429

About the Author
Jack Halberstam is David Feinson Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University and the author of seven books, including Trans*: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variance, The Queer Art of Failure, and Female Masculinity. A 2024 Guggenheim fellow, he is the winner of the Arcus/Places Prize in 2018 for innovative public scholarship and was recently the subject of the film So We Moved by Adam Pendleton in 2022.
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