Luditas y maquinólatras.Notas sobre el libro La Ley del Reloj

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This book investigates the architecture of modernity and its relationship to the machine. It does so not through specific case studies, but through the research of some of the prevailing ideas in the discourse of the most important modern architectures between the mid-eighteenth century and the end of the twentieth. In fact, a reader interested in fully detailed analyzes of buildings will not find them here, although this kind of reader should go through this book to understand the role of machine-ideology in the development of modern architecture and the contemporary corollaries. One of the goals of the book is precisely to stress the enormous importance of this discourse on the machine in order to avoid being dazzled by the metaphors that have burdened, until relatively recently, the canonical readings of modern architecture. Such metaphors were systematically propagated by the architects themselves, by the most influential historians, and by some theoreticians linked to what has been called the modern project. The abuse of the metaphor in the architectural discourse remains completely current, and this book is a good tool to take a critical stance, judgement and agency against the excesses of rhetorics.