Abstract:

A reading of Gayatri Spivak’s 1995 “City, Country, Agency,” this article offers a framework for constructing a responsibility-based agency for architecture and urbanism in service of decolonization. Weaving together deconstructive readings of select verses from the Mahābhārata and other Sanskrit texts, it posits an alternate ecologist understanding of history and society as dhāranā, as a kind of holding otherness, that architects must pre-comprehend to responsibly and more impactfully situate their agency in the world. Architectural thinking, or the practices of design, are offered as situational imperativist agencies that are accessible to dhāranā.The article also points toward the ethics of an alternate preservationist practice, that neither fetishizes the object nor sidelines its agency, but invests in and investigates a future oriented praxis that is neither prescriptive nor reactive, but is propelled by desire as inflected via dhāranā.

摘要：

通过阅读Gayatri Spivak 1995年的“城市，国家，机构”，本文提供了一个框架，可以为建筑和城市主义构建基于责任的机构，以服务于非殖民化。结合了Mahābhārata和其他梵文文本中某些经文的解构性读物，它提出了另一种生态学家对历史和社会的理解，即dhāranā，这是一种持有性，建筑师必须预先理解，以负责任的方式更有效地将其代理机构定位在世界。建筑思想或设计实践是作为情境主义主义者提供的，可供dhāranā使用文章还指出了另一种保存主义实践的伦理，即既不迷恋客体，也不在意其代理，而是投资并研究了既不是规范性的也不是反应性的，而是由dhāranā影响的欲望推动的，面向未来的实践。