Pollerforschung

The revised new edition of Pollerforschung brings together texts by Helmut Höge from the years 1989 to 2009. In his attentive observations of the city, the subtle complexities of an object easily overlooked in everyday life come to light. With theoretical insight, Höge examines the agency of urban furniture, explores its psychogeographical significance, and traces the idiosyncratic ways in which the city’s inhabitants appropriate the bollard.
Helmut Höge’s investigation into a political economy of street bollards and other forms of urban furniture offers an insightful contribution to understanding contemporary urban development.

With afterwords by Ann Cotten, Christoph Eggersglüß, Philipp Goll, Frederic Ponten, and Georg Stanitzek.