Architectural Deleuzism: neoliberal space, control and the "univer-city"

For many thinkers of the spatiality of contemporary capitalism, the production of all social space tends to converge upon a single organisational paradigm designed to generate and service mobility, connectivity and flexibility. This spatial paradigm has been theorised through models of complexity, self-organisation and emergence. It has also been serviced by a self-styled avant-garde in contemporary architecture claiming and legitimising the emergence of this mode of spatiality as essentially progressive through its particular reading of the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari. What Ryle calls Deleuzism in architecture is identifiable in the projects and discourses of architecture practices such as Zaha Hadid Architects, Foreign Office Architects, Reiser + Umemoto and Greg Lynn. Such architectural Deleuzism, Ryle contends, has tended to read the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari with a marked bias towards Bergsonian and Spinozan registers.