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This book offers a vision of the London Underground written in the form of a ficto-historical narrative, which combines history and fiction in the creation of a set of theoretical propositions for London's subterranean transportation network. Its amateur-scholar protagonist takes the reader on a labyrinthine journey into the world of research, with sources personified and(...)
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This book offers a vision of the London Underground written in the form of a ficto-historical narrative, which combines history and fiction in the creation of a set of theoretical propositions for London's subterranean transportation network. Its amateur-scholar protagonist takes the reader on a labyrinthine journey into the world of research, with sources personified and(...)
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A ficto-historical theory of the London Underground
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This book offers a vision of the London Underground written in the form of a ficto-historical narrative, which combines history and fiction in the creation of a set of theoretical propositions for London's subterranean transportation network. Its amateur-scholar protagonist takes the reader on a labyrinthine journey into the world of research, with sources personified and their works appropriated and subverted. The book offers a model for practising writing and research in the context of architectural history and theory.
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This book offers a vision of the London Underground written in the form of a ficto-historical narrative, which combines history and fiction in the creation of a set of theoretical propositions for London's subterranean transportation network. Its amateur-scholar protagonist takes the reader on a labyrinthine journey into the world of research, with sources personified and their works appropriated and subverted. The book offers a model for practising writing and research in the context of architectural history and theory.
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Écrits d'une insoumise
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Pionnière du féminisme américain, poétesse, musicienne, celle qui se définissait comme une « anarchiste sans qualificatif » propose une réflexion originale qui touche à un très large éventail de sujets – notamment l’économie, la libre pensée, la philosophie, la religion, la criminologie, la littérature et l’action directe non violente.
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Pionnière du féminisme américain, poétesse, musicienne, celle qui se définissait comme une « anarchiste sans qualificatif » propose une réflexion originale qui touche à un très large éventail de sujets – notamment l’économie, la libre pensée, la philosophie, la religion, la criminologie, la littérature et l’action directe non violente.
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Pionnière du féminisme américain, poétesse, musicienne, celle qui se définissait comme une « anarchiste sans qualificatif » propose une réflexion originale qui touche à un très large éventail de sujets – notamment l’économie, la libre pensée, la philosophie, la religion, la criminologie, la littérature et l’action directe non violente.
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Pionnière du féminisme américain, poétesse, musicienne, celle qui se définissait comme une « anarchiste sans qualificatif » propose une réflexion originale qui touche à un très large éventail de sujets – notamment l’économie, la libre pensée, la philosophie, la religion, la criminologie, la littérature et l’action directe non violente.
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Cannibal metaphysics
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The iconoclastic Brazilian anthropologist and theoretician Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, well known in his discipline for helping initiate its “ontological turn,” offers a vision of anthropology as “the practice of the permanent decolonization of thought.” After showing that Amazonian and other Amerindian groups inhabit a radically different conceptual universe than ours—in(...)
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The iconoclastic Brazilian anthropologist and theoretician Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, well known in his discipline for helping initiate its “ontological turn,” offers a vision of anthropology as “the practice of the permanent decolonization of thought.” After showing that Amazonian and other Amerindian groups inhabit a radically different conceptual universe than ours—in(...)
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Cannibal metaphysics
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The iconoclastic Brazilian anthropologist and theoretician Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, well known in his discipline for helping initiate its “ontological turn,” offers a vision of anthropology as “the practice of the permanent decolonization of thought.” After showing that Amazonian and other Amerindian groups inhabit a radically different conceptual universe than ours—in which nature and culture, human and nonhuman, subject and object are conceived in terms that reverse our own—he presents the case for anthropology as the study of such “other” metaphysical schemes, and as the corresponding critique of the concepts imposed on them by the human sciences.
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The iconoclastic Brazilian anthropologist and theoretician Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, well known in his discipline for helping initiate its “ontological turn,” offers a vision of anthropology as “the practice of the permanent decolonization of thought.” After showing that Amazonian and other Amerindian groups inhabit a radically different conceptual universe than ours—in which nature and culture, human and nonhuman, subject and object are conceived in terms that reverse our own—he presents the case for anthropology as the study of such “other” metaphysical schemes, and as the corresponding critique of the concepts imposed on them by the human sciences.
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In "Atmospheric Things" Derek P. McCormack explores how atmospheres are imagined, understood, and experienced through experiments with a deceptively simple object: the balloon. Since the invention of balloon flight in the late eighteenth century, balloons have drawn crowds at fairs and expositions, inspired the visions of artists and writers, and driven technological(...)
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In "Atmospheric Things" Derek P. McCormack explores how atmospheres are imagined, understood, and experienced through experiments with a deceptively simple object: the balloon. Since the invention of balloon flight in the late eighteenth century, balloons have drawn crowds at fairs and expositions, inspired the visions of artists and writers, and driven technological(...)
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Atmospheric things: on the allure of elemental envelopment
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In "Atmospheric Things" Derek P. McCormack explores how atmospheres are imagined, understood, and experienced through experiments with a deceptively simple object: the balloon. Since the invention of balloon flight in the late eighteenth century, balloons have drawn crowds at fairs and expositions, inspired the visions of artists and writers, and driven technological development from meteorology to military surveillance. By foregrounding the distinctive properties of the balloon, McCormack reveals its remarkable capacity to disclose the affective and meteorological dimensions of atmospheres. Drawing together different senses of the object, the elements, and experience, McCormack uses the balloon to show how practices and technologies of envelopment allow atmospheres to be generated, made meaningful, and modified.
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In "Atmospheric Things" Derek P. McCormack explores how atmospheres are imagined, understood, and experienced through experiments with a deceptively simple object: the balloon. Since the invention of balloon flight in the late eighteenth century, balloons have drawn crowds at fairs and expositions, inspired the visions of artists and writers, and driven technological development from meteorology to military surveillance. By foregrounding the distinctive properties of the balloon, McCormack reveals its remarkable capacity to disclose the affective and meteorological dimensions of atmospheres. Drawing together different senses of the object, the elements, and experience, McCormack uses the balloon to show how practices and technologies of envelopment allow atmospheres to be generated, made meaningful, and modified.
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La personne et le sacré
La personne et le sacré
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Rédigé quelques mois avant son décès, cet essai de Simone Weil est le condensé des réflexions d’une vie, l’aboutissement d’une pensée extraordinairement lucide. Se penchant sur la part de sacré qui réside en tout un chacun, Simone Weil remet en question le concept même de personne. Nul n’est sacré. Le sacré est à chercher en l’homme, dans l’impersonnel. À l’heure où la(...)
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Rédigé quelques mois avant son décès, cet essai de Simone Weil est le condensé des réflexions d’une vie, l’aboutissement d’une pensée extraordinairement lucide. Se penchant sur la part de sacré qui réside en tout un chacun, Simone Weil remet en question le concept même de personne. Nul n’est sacré. Le sacré est à chercher en l’homme, dans l’impersonnel. À l’heure où la(...)
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Rédigé quelques mois avant son décès, cet essai de Simone Weil est le condensé des réflexions d’une vie, l’aboutissement d’une pensée extraordinairement lucide. Se penchant sur la part de sacré qui réside en tout un chacun, Simone Weil remet en question le concept même de personne. Nul n’est sacré. Le sacré est à chercher en l’homme, dans l’impersonnel. À l’heure où la notion de personne est au centre des discours politiques, des campagnes de marketing et des questions morales, cet essai opère un renversement de perspective salvateur. Il en découle la recherche de principes, au-delà des libertés démocratiques et des institutions, capables de limiter et d’orienter ces dernières. Il est urgent, selon elle, d’inventer des institutions qui ne se limiteraient pas à protéger nos droits mais qui seraient capables d’abolir ce qui écrase les hommes et entraîne l’injustice.
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Rédigé quelques mois avant son décès, cet essai de Simone Weil est le condensé des réflexions d’une vie, l’aboutissement d’une pensée extraordinairement lucide. Se penchant sur la part de sacré qui réside en tout un chacun, Simone Weil remet en question le concept même de personne. Nul n’est sacré. Le sacré est à chercher en l’homme, dans l’impersonnel. À l’heure où la notion de personne est au centre des discours politiques, des campagnes de marketing et des questions morales, cet essai opère un renversement de perspective salvateur. Il en découle la recherche de principes, au-delà des libertés démocratiques et des institutions, capables de limiter et d’orienter ces dernières. Il est urgent, selon elle, d’inventer des institutions qui ne se limiteraient pas à protéger nos droits mais qui seraient capables d’abolir ce qui écrase les hommes et entraîne l’injustice.
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Walter Benjamin : avertissement d'incendie, une lecture des thèses « Sur le concept d'histoire »
Walter Benjamin : avertissement d'incendie, une lecture des thèses « Sur le concept d'histoire »
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Les Thèses « Sur le concept d'histoire » de 1940 sont le dernier écrit de Walter Benjamin et constituent peut-être le document le plus significatif dans la pensée critique du XXe siècle. Texte allusif, sybillin, dont l'hermétisme est constellé d'images et d'allégories, semé de paradoxes, traversé d'intuitions. Ce livre en propose une étude au mot à mot. Là où d'autres ne(...)
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Les Thèses « Sur le concept d'histoire » de 1940 sont le dernier écrit de Walter Benjamin et constituent peut-être le document le plus significatif dans la pensée critique du XXe siècle. Texte allusif, sybillin, dont l'hermétisme est constellé d'images et d'allégories, semé de paradoxes, traversé d'intuitions. Ce livre en propose une étude au mot à mot. Là où d'autres ne(...)
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Walter Benjamin : avertissement d'incendie, une lecture des thèses « Sur le concept d'histoire »
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Les Thèses « Sur le concept d'histoire » de 1940 sont le dernier écrit de Walter Benjamin et constituent peut-être le document le plus significatif dans la pensée critique du XXe siècle. Texte allusif, sybillin, dont l'hermétisme est constellé d'images et d'allégories, semé de paradoxes, traversé d'intuitions. Ce livre en propose une étude au mot à mot. Là où d'autres ne voient que contradiction ou ambiguïté, il met en évidence une cohérence fondamentale, dont la clé est constituée par la fusion de trois discours hétérogènes: le romantisme allemand, le messianisme juif, le marxisme révolutionnaire.
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Les Thèses « Sur le concept d'histoire » de 1940 sont le dernier écrit de Walter Benjamin et constituent peut-être le document le plus significatif dans la pensée critique du XXe siècle. Texte allusif, sybillin, dont l'hermétisme est constellé d'images et d'allégories, semé de paradoxes, traversé d'intuitions. Ce livre en propose une étude au mot à mot. Là où d'autres ne voient que contradiction ou ambiguïté, il met en évidence une cohérence fondamentale, dont la clé est constituée par la fusion de trois discours hétérogènes: le romantisme allemand, le messianisme juif, le marxisme révolutionnaire.
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A fresh interpretation of Jeremy Bentham, finding that his “radical foolery” embodied a social ethics that was revolutionary for its time. Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832) is best remembered today as the founder of utilitarianism (a philosophy infamously abused by the Victorians) and the conceiver of the Panopticon, the circular prison house in which all prisoners could be(...)
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A fresh interpretation of Jeremy Bentham, finding that his “radical foolery” embodied a social ethics that was revolutionary for its time. Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832) is best remembered today as the founder of utilitarianism (a philosophy infamously abused by the Victorians) and the conceiver of the Panopticon, the circular prison house in which all prisoners could be(...)
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The radical fool of capitalism: on Jeremy Bentham, the Panopticon, and the auto-icon
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A fresh interpretation of Jeremy Bentham, finding that his “radical foolery” embodied a social ethics that was revolutionary for its time. Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832) is best remembered today as the founder of utilitarianism (a philosophy infamously abused by the Victorians) and the conceiver of the Panopticon, the circular prison house in which all prisoners could be seen by an unseen observer—later seized upon by Michel Foucault as the apotheosis of the neoliberal control society. In this volume in the Untimely Meditation series, Christian Welzbacher offers a new interpretation of Bentham, arguing that his “radical foolery” (paraphrasing Goethe's characterization of Bentham) actually embodied a social ethics that was new for its time and demands proper historical contextualization rather than retroactive analysis from the vantage point of late capitalism. Welzbacher provides just such an analysis, offering an account of the two great utilitarian projects that occupied Bentham all his life: the Panopticon and the Auto-Icon.
The radical fool of capitalism: on Jeremy Bentham, the Panopticon, and the auto-icon
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A fresh interpretation of Jeremy Bentham, finding that his “radical foolery” embodied a social ethics that was revolutionary for its time. Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832) is best remembered today as the founder of utilitarianism (a philosophy infamously abused by the Victorians) and the conceiver of the Panopticon, the circular prison house in which all prisoners could be seen by an unseen observer—later seized upon by Michel Foucault as the apotheosis of the neoliberal control society. In this volume in the Untimely Meditation series, Christian Welzbacher offers a new interpretation of Bentham, arguing that his “radical foolery” (paraphrasing Goethe's characterization of Bentham) actually embodied a social ethics that was new for its time and demands proper historical contextualization rather than retroactive analysis from the vantage point of late capitalism. Welzbacher provides just such an analysis, offering an account of the two great utilitarian projects that occupied Bentham all his life: the Panopticon and the Auto-Icon.
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In this new book, Bruno Latour offers answers to questions raised in "We Have Never Been Modern", a work that interrogated the connections between nature and culture. If not modern, he asked, what have we been, and what values should we inherit? Over the last twenty-five years, Latour has developed a research protocol different from the actor-network theory with which his(...)
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In this new book, Bruno Latour offers answers to questions raised in "We Have Never Been Modern", a work that interrogated the connections between nature and culture. If not modern, he asked, what have we been, and what values should we inherit? Over the last twenty-five years, Latour has developed a research protocol different from the actor-network theory with which his(...)
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An inquiry into modes of existence: an anthropology of the moderns
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In this new book, Bruno Latour offers answers to questions raised in "We Have Never Been Modern", a work that interrogated the connections between nature and culture. If not modern, he asked, what have we been, and what values should we inherit? Over the last twenty-five years, Latour has developed a research protocol different from the actor-network theory with which his name is now associated—a research protocol that follows the different types of connectors that provide specific truth conditions. These are the connectors that prompt a climate scientist challenged by a captain of industry to appeal to the "institution" of science, with its army of researchers and mountains of data, rather than to “capital-S Science” as a higher authority. Such modes of extension—or modes of existence, Latour argues here—account for the many differences between law, science, politics, and other domains of knowledge.
An inquiry into modes of existence: an anthropology of the moderns
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In this new book, Bruno Latour offers answers to questions raised in "We Have Never Been Modern", a work that interrogated the connections between nature and culture. If not modern, he asked, what have we been, and what values should we inherit? Over the last twenty-five years, Latour has developed a research protocol different from the actor-network theory with which his name is now associated—a research protocol that follows the different types of connectors that provide specific truth conditions. These are the connectors that prompt a climate scientist challenged by a captain of industry to appeal to the "institution" of science, with its army of researchers and mountains of data, rather than to “capital-S Science” as a higher authority. Such modes of extension—or modes of existence, Latour argues here—account for the many differences between law, science, politics, and other domains of knowledge.
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The adventure
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An ancient legend identifies Demon, Chance, Love, and Necessity as the four gods who preside over the birth of every human being. We must all pay tribute to these deities and should not try to elude or dupe them. To accept them, Giorgio Agamben suggests, is to live one’s life as an adventure—not in the trivial sense of the term, with lightness and disenchantment, but with(...)
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An ancient legend identifies Demon, Chance, Love, and Necessity as the four gods who preside over the birth of every human being. We must all pay tribute to these deities and should not try to elude or dupe them. To accept them, Giorgio Agamben suggests, is to live one’s life as an adventure—not in the trivial sense of the term, with lightness and disenchantment, but with(...)
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An ancient legend identifies Demon, Chance, Love, and Necessity as the four gods who preside over the birth of every human being. We must all pay tribute to these deities and should not try to elude or dupe them. To accept them, Giorgio Agamben suggests, is to live one’s life as an adventure—not in the trivial sense of the term, with lightness and disenchantment, but with the understanding that adventure, as a specific way of being, is the most profound experience in our human existence. In this pithy, poetic, and compelling book, Agamben maps a journey from poems of chivalry to philosophy, from Yvain to Hegel, from Beatrice to Heidegger. The four gods of legend are joined at the end by a goddess, the most elusive and mysterious of all: Elpis, Hope. In Greek mythology, Hope remains in Pandora's box, not because it postpones its fulfillment to an invisible beyond but because somehow it has always been already satisfied. Here, Agamben presents Hope as the ultimate gift of the human adventure on Earth.
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An ancient legend identifies Demon, Chance, Love, and Necessity as the four gods who preside over the birth of every human being. We must all pay tribute to these deities and should not try to elude or dupe them. To accept them, Giorgio Agamben suggests, is to live one’s life as an adventure—not in the trivial sense of the term, with lightness and disenchantment, but with the understanding that adventure, as a specific way of being, is the most profound experience in our human existence. In this pithy, poetic, and compelling book, Agamben maps a journey from poems of chivalry to philosophy, from Yvain to Hegel, from Beatrice to Heidegger. The four gods of legend are joined at the end by a goddess, the most elusive and mysterious of all: Elpis, Hope. In Greek mythology, Hope remains in Pandora's box, not because it postpones its fulfillment to an invisible beyond but because somehow it has always been already satisfied. Here, Agamben presents Hope as the ultimate gift of the human adventure on Earth.
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Topology of violence
Topology of violence
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One of today's most widely read philosophers considers the shift in violence from visible to invisible, from negativity to excess of positivity. Some things never disappear—violence, for example. Violence is ubiquitous and incessant but protean, varying its outward form according to the social constellation at hand. In Topology of Violence, the philosopher Byung-Chul(...)
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One of today's most widely read philosophers considers the shift in violence from visible to invisible, from negativity to excess of positivity. Some things never disappear—violence, for example. Violence is ubiquitous and incessant but protean, varying its outward form according to the social constellation at hand. In Topology of Violence, the philosopher Byung-Chul(...)
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One of today's most widely read philosophers considers the shift in violence from visible to invisible, from negativity to excess of positivity. Some things never disappear—violence, for example. Violence is ubiquitous and incessant but protean, varying its outward form according to the social constellation at hand. In Topology of Violence, the philosopher Byung-Chul Han considers the shift in violence from the visible to the invisible, from the frontal to the viral to the self-inflicted, from brute force to mediated force, from the real to the virtual. Violence, Han tells us, has gone from the negative—explosive, massive, and martial—to the positive, wielded without enmity or domination. This, he says, creates the false impression that violence has disappeared. Anonymized, desubjectified, systemic, violence conceals itself because it has become one with society.
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One of today's most widely read philosophers considers the shift in violence from visible to invisible, from negativity to excess of positivity. Some things never disappear—violence, for example. Violence is ubiquitous and incessant but protean, varying its outward form according to the social constellation at hand. In Topology of Violence, the philosopher Byung-Chul Han considers the shift in violence from the visible to the invisible, from the frontal to the viral to the self-inflicted, from brute force to mediated force, from the real to the virtual. Violence, Han tells us, has gone from the negative—explosive, massive, and martial—to the positive, wielded without enmity or domination. This, he says, creates the false impression that violence has disappeared. Anonymized, desubjectified, systemic, violence conceals itself because it has become one with society.
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