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This chapter develops further case studies to better understand the actual process of producing objectified social relations, examining how architectural discourse depoliticizes urban production, focusing on London’s housing crisis. It deconstructs urban science narratives that frame ideological viewpoints and enable expropriation practices. Using Space Syntax as a case study, the text exposes how supposedly neutral methodologies reinforce economic and spatial inequalities, legitimizing political discourse, displacement, and privatization. It also analyses how London’s housing policies since 2009 illustrate this process, where bureaucratic rhetoric fetishizes private-sector solutions while masking dispossession as public interest, resulting in an unprecedented housing crisis. Based on these contradictions, this chapter regressively analyses the historical role of ‘genius’ figures in creative labour, showing how they shape narratives that capture collective labour. It traces the association of disciplinary forces with mystification, from priestly origins to contemporary entrepreneur stars. The chapter further interrogates the fetishization of urban design production, calling for a critical reassessment of acritical subjectivities sustaining power structures through spatial production.

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Fetish as it Happens: Depoliticization of Revolt and London’s Housing Crisis

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    2025年

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  • Camilo Vladimir De Lima Amaral

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This chapter develops further case studies to better understand the actual process of producing objectified social relations, examining how architectural discourse depoliticizes urban production, focusing on London’s housing crisis. It deconstructs urban science narratives that frame ideological viewpoints and enable expropriation practices. Using Space Syntax as a case study, the text exposes how supposedly neutral methodologies reinforce economic and spatial inequalities, legitimizing political discourse, displacement, and privatization. It also analyses how London’s housing policies since 2009 illustrate this process, where bureaucratic rhetoric fetishizes private-sector solutions while masking dispossession as public interest, resulting in an unprecedented housing crisis. Based on these contradictions, this chapter regressively analyses the historical role of ‘genius’ figures in creative labour, showing how they shape narratives that capture collective labour. It traces the association of disciplinary forces with mystification, from priestly origins to contemporary entrepreneur stars. The chapter further interrogates the fetishization of urban design production, calling for a critical reassessment of acritical subjectivities sustaining power structures through spatial production.