Elliott, Brian

Bio Sketch

Brian Elliott is a philosopher (Portland State University) whose work spans political philosophy, phenomenology, and critical urban theory, including the situationist legacy and the politics of urban life.

Key Works

• "Debord, Constant, and the Politics of Situationist Urbanism" (2009) — unitary urbanism, the dérive, New Babylon, and formal vs. material utopianism.

Key Concepts

Concepts associated with this author that have pages in this wiki:

• Unitary Urbanism
• Dérive
• New Babylon
• Play

Relevance to Geoffrey's Research

Elliott matters to Geoffrey's situationist urbanism area: his defense of Constant's New Babylon against the SI's post-1960 "retreat to purity," and his framing of the formal/material utopianism split, refine the debate Geoffrey works through on the dérive, unitary urbanism, and the play-city.

Source Support

Source notes in this wiki drawn from this author's work:

• Debord, Constant, and the Politics of Situationist Urbanism
• Benjamin for Architects (Elliott 2011) — presents Benjamin as a decisive thinker on architecture and the urban condition, tracing the shift from bourgeois dwelling to modernist housing.