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Pioneer Works Broadcast is the official magazine of Pioneer Works, devoted to joining art and science. The third issue features a conversation with Miranda July; explorations of undersea cartography and baby-making on Mars; new essays by Catherine Lacey and Marcus J. Moore; fiction by Chris Kraus; drawings from Daniel Johnston; poetry by Eileen Myles, Brandon Kilbourne,(...)
Pioneers Works Broadcast, issue 3
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Pioneer Works Broadcast is the official magazine of Pioneer Works, devoted to joining art and science. The third issue features a conversation with Miranda July; explorations of undersea cartography and baby-making on Mars; new essays by Catherine Lacey and Marcus J. Moore; fiction by Chris Kraus; drawings from Daniel Johnston; poetry by Eileen Myles, Brandon Kilbourne, and Ariana Reines, and more.
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Greg Lynn : form
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Greg Lynn has defined how designers and architects use computers as a medium, operating in an expanded field that fuses cutting-edge technology, contemporary art, and science fiction aesthetics with architectural form. With contributions by : J. G. Ballard, Chris Bangle, Rene Daalder, Sonia Eram, Imaginary Forces, Brian C. Goodwin, Jeffrey Kipnis, Sylvia Lavin, Ross(...)
Architecture Monographs
November 2008, New York
Greg Lynn : form
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Greg Lynn has defined how designers and architects use computers as a medium, operating in an expanded field that fuses cutting-edge technology, contemporary art, and science fiction aesthetics with architectural form. With contributions by : J. G. Ballard, Chris Bangle, Rene Daalder, Sonia Eram, Imaginary Forces, Brian C. Goodwin, Jeffrey Kipnis, Sylvia Lavin, Ross Lovegrove, Ari Marcopoulos, Peter Schroder, and Bruce Sterling.
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Cities from zero
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The contributors in this book, architects, critics and documenters, have responded to the invitation to prise the fact from the fiction, with particular focus on both the gulf emirate of Dubai and the rapid urbanisation of China. Are cities from zero universal blueprints of a better world for all of us, or doomed, out-dated models of already extinct ideologies?
Cities from zero
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The contributors in this book, architects, critics and documenters, have responded to the invitation to prise the fact from the fiction, with particular focus on both the gulf emirate of Dubai and the rapid urbanisation of China. Are cities from zero universal blueprints of a better world for all of us, or doomed, out-dated models of already extinct ideologies?
Urban Theory
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Il en a jailli une œuvre singulière, au croisement de la fiction et de l’histoire, en 24 tableaux finement liés entre eux, qui donnent à voir autant de perspectives sur Champlain et son époque, sur les personnes qu’il a connues, les lieux qu’il a explorés et où il a vécu, mais aussi, sur le choc de la rencontre entre Français et Premiers Peuples.
Sur les traces de Champlain: voyage extraordinaire en 24 tableaux
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Il en a jailli une œuvre singulière, au croisement de la fiction et de l’histoire, en 24 tableaux finement liés entre eux, qui donnent à voir autant de perspectives sur Champlain et son époque, sur les personnes qu’il a connues, les lieux qu’il a explorés et où il a vécu, mais aussi, sur le choc de la rencontre entre Français et Premiers Peuples.
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'Wapke' – « demain » en langue atikamekw – est le premier recueil de nouvelles d'anticipation autochtone publié au Québec. Quatorze auteurs de nations et d'horizons multiples se projettent dans l'avenir par le biais de la fiction, abordant des thèmes sociaux, politiques et environnementaux d'actualité. Sous la direction de Michel Jean, 'Wapke' offre un commentaire social(...)
Wapke
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'Wapke' – « demain » en langue atikamekw – est le premier recueil de nouvelles d'anticipation autochtone publié au Québec. Quatorze auteurs de nations et d'horizons multiples se projettent dans l'avenir par le biais de la fiction, abordant des thèmes sociaux, politiques et environnementaux d'actualité. Sous la direction de Michel Jean, 'Wapke' offre un commentaire social souvent saisissant où se dessine l'espoir d'un changement.
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May 2021
Literature and poetry
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Two years after his "Vampyroteuthis Infernalis", Vilém Flusser engaged in another thought experiment: a collection of twenty-two “scenarios for the future.” This publication offers insight into the radical futures of a slipstream Anthropocene that have much to do with speculative fiction, and serves as both a warning and a nudge to imagine what we may yet become and be.
What if? Twenty-two scenarios in search of images
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Two years after his "Vampyroteuthis Infernalis", Vilém Flusser engaged in another thought experiment: a collection of twenty-two “scenarios for the future.” This publication offers insight into the radical futures of a slipstream Anthropocene that have much to do with speculative fiction, and serves as both a warning and a nudge to imagine what we may yet become and be.
Critical Theory
Habitante no. 2
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De la fiction à la théorie critique, de l'arbre au territoire, de la maison à la mégastructure, « Habitante » raconte les espaces où l'on vit, et la manière dont on les pense. Au sommaire du numéro 2 : Loger ensemble par Yves Dreier et Oscar Gential; La condition automobile par Fanny Taillandier; Du bois pourri par Jane Hutton; Géopolitique du brouillard par Jakuta(...)
Habitante no. 2
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De la fiction à la théorie critique, de l'arbre au territoire, de la maison à la mégastructure, « Habitante » raconte les espaces où l'on vit, et la manière dont on les pense. Au sommaire du numéro 2 : Loger ensemble par Yves Dreier et Oscar Gential; La condition automobile par Fanny Taillandier; Du bois pourri par Jane Hutton; Géopolitique du brouillard par Jakuta Alikavazovic.
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This book illuminates the cultural dynamics of three decades of radical urban development in China. Interpreting fiction, cinema, visual art, architecture, and urban design, the author analyzes how the aesthetics of the urban environment have shaped the emotions and behavior of individuals and cultures, and how individual and collective images of and practices in the city(...)
Cities surround the countryside: urban aesthetics in postsocialist China
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This book illuminates the cultural dynamics of three decades of radical urban development in China. Interpreting fiction, cinema, visual art, architecture, and urban design, the author analyzes how the aesthetics of the urban environment have shaped the emotions and behavior of individuals and cultures, and how individual and collective images of and practices in the city have produced urban aesthetics.
Arch Middle East
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Searching for Utopia surveys the influence of the idea of utopia on history, literature, art, architecture, and religious and political thought. Central to his exploration of ideal worlds are creation myths; archetypes of heaven and the afterlife; new worlds and voyages of discovery; ages of revolution and technological progress; model communities and kibbutzim; political(...)
Searching for utopia: The history of an idea
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Searching for Utopia surveys the influence of the idea of utopia on history, literature, art, architecture, and religious and political thought. Central to his exploration of ideal worlds are creation myths; archetypes of heaven and the afterlife; new worlds and voyages of discovery; ages of revolution and technological progress; model communities and kibbutzim; political and ecological dystopias; space travel and science fiction.
Architecture and the imaginary
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433 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
New York, NY : Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, [2021], [New York] : Columbia University Press
Nights of the dispossessed : riots unbound / edited by Natasha Ginwala, Gal Kirn and Niloufar Tajeri.
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New York, NY : Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, [2021], [New York] : Columbia University Press