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De la leçon inaugurale prononcée par Bernard Desmoulin le 18 janvier 2011 à l'Ecole de Chaillot restait le souvenir d'une musique très particulière, d'une propension à la litote, mêlant au fil de phrases fluides, réflexions intellectuelles et psychologiques, sensibilité et culture. Demeurait aussi l'impression d'avoir été emmené au long d'un curieux voyage. Surtout(...)
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De la leçon inaugurale prononcée par Bernard Desmoulin le 18 janvier 2011 à l'Ecole de Chaillot restait le souvenir d'une musique très particulière, d'une propension à la litote, mêlant au fil de phrases fluides, réflexions intellectuelles et psychologiques, sensibilité et culture. Demeurait aussi l'impression d'avoir été emmené au long d'un curieux voyage. Surtout(...)
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Bernard Desmoulin : leçon inaugurale de l'école de Chaillot prononcée le 18 janvier 2011
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De la leçon inaugurale prononcée par Bernard Desmoulin le 18 janvier 2011 à l'Ecole de Chaillot restait le souvenir d'une musique très particulière, d'une propension à la litote, mêlant au fil de phrases fluides, réflexions intellectuelles et psychologiques, sensibilité et culture. Demeurait aussi l'impression d'avoir été emmené au long d'un curieux voyage. Surtout pas un grand tour forcé des projets et réalisations de l'architecte. Non, tout au contraire, d'avoir été discrètement invité à considérer avec lui, des objets, des faits, des images, des oeuvres aimées, son musée imaginaire, et chemin faisant, par petites touches, conduit à le découvrir comme à travers un miroir sans teint, voilà dévoilé par ce qu'il montrait. Ce livre revisite cette conférence, la complète par des questions du public et les réponses de l'architecte. Chemin faisiant, se devine aussi comment s'opère chez lui ce moment étrange de la cristallisation du projet, quand, à partir d'un lieu, d'une oeuvre, du frôlement de l'histoire et du patrimoine, au bout de l'accumulation des croquis et des dessins et, plus tard, des échanges avec la maîtrise d'ouvrage, il se dégage du magma, s'ébauche, puis se profile net et clair.
Bernard Desmoulin : leçon inaugurale de l'école de Chaillot prononcée le 18 janvier 2011
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De la leçon inaugurale prononcée par Bernard Desmoulin le 18 janvier 2011 à l'Ecole de Chaillot restait le souvenir d'une musique très particulière, d'une propension à la litote, mêlant au fil de phrases fluides, réflexions intellectuelles et psychologiques, sensibilité et culture. Demeurait aussi l'impression d'avoir été emmené au long d'un curieux voyage. Surtout pas un grand tour forcé des projets et réalisations de l'architecte. Non, tout au contraire, d'avoir été discrètement invité à considérer avec lui, des objets, des faits, des images, des oeuvres aimées, son musée imaginaire, et chemin faisant, par petites touches, conduit à le découvrir comme à travers un miroir sans teint, voilà dévoilé par ce qu'il montrait. Ce livre revisite cette conférence, la complète par des questions du public et les réponses de l'architecte. Chemin faisiant, se devine aussi comment s'opère chez lui ce moment étrange de la cristallisation du projet, quand, à partir d'un lieu, d'une oeuvre, du frôlement de l'histoire et du patrimoine, au bout de l'accumulation des croquis et des dessins et, plus tard, des échanges avec la maîtrise d'ouvrage, il se dégage du magma, s'ébauche, puis se profile net et clair.
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First published in German in 1913 and widely considered to be Paul Scheerbart's masterpiece, Lesabéndio is an intergalactic utopian novel that describes life on the planetoid Pallas, where rubbery suction-footed life forms with telescopic eyes smoke bubble-weed in mushroom meadows under violet skies and green stars. A cosmic ecological fable, Scheerbart's novel was(...)
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First published in German in 1913 and widely considered to be Paul Scheerbart's masterpiece, Lesabéndio is an intergalactic utopian novel that describes life on the planetoid Pallas, where rubbery suction-footed life forms with telescopic eyes smoke bubble-weed in mushroom meadows under violet skies and green stars. A cosmic ecological fable, Scheerbart's novel was(...)
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Lesabénio : an asteroid novel
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First published in German in 1913 and widely considered to be Paul Scheerbart's masterpiece, Lesabéndio is an intergalactic utopian novel that describes life on the planetoid Pallas, where rubbery suction-footed life forms with telescopic eyes smoke bubble-weed in mushroom meadows under violet skies and green stars. A cosmic ecological fable, Scheerbart's novel was admired by such architects as Bruno Taut and Walter Gropius, and such thinkers as Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem
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First published in German in 1913 and widely considered to be Paul Scheerbart's masterpiece, Lesabéndio is an intergalactic utopian novel that describes life on the planetoid Pallas, where rubbery suction-footed life forms with telescopic eyes smoke bubble-weed in mushroom meadows under violet skies and green stars. A cosmic ecological fable, Scheerbart's novel was admired by such architects as Bruno Taut and Walter Gropius, and such thinkers as Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem
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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(...)
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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(...)
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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.
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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.
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Architecture and the imaginary
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The Soviet Union was founded on a fairytale. It was built on 20th-century magic called 'the planned economy', which was going to gush forth an abundance of good things that the penny-pinching lands of capitalism could never match. And just for a little while, in the heady years of the late 1950s, the magic seemed to be working. "Red Plenty" is about that moment in(...)
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The Soviet Union was founded on a fairytale. It was built on 20th-century magic called 'the planned economy', which was going to gush forth an abundance of good things that the penny-pinching lands of capitalism could never match. And just for a little while, in the heady years of the late 1950s, the magic seemed to be working. "Red Plenty" is about that moment in(...)
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Red plenty: inside the fifties' soviet dream
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The Soviet Union was founded on a fairytale. It was built on 20th-century magic called 'the planned economy', which was going to gush forth an abundance of good things that the penny-pinching lands of capitalism could never match. And just for a little while, in the heady years of the late 1950s, the magic seemed to be working. "Red Plenty" is about that moment in history, and how it came, and how it went away; about the brief era when, under the rash leadership of Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet Union looked forward to a future of rich communists and envious capitalists, when Moscow would out-glitter Manhattan, every Lada would be better engineered than a Porsche and sputniks would lead the way to the stars. And it's about the scientists who did their genuinely brilliant best to make the dream come true, to give the tyranny its happy ending.
Red plenty: inside the fifties' soviet dream
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The Soviet Union was founded on a fairytale. It was built on 20th-century magic called 'the planned economy', which was going to gush forth an abundance of good things that the penny-pinching lands of capitalism could never match. And just for a little while, in the heady years of the late 1950s, the magic seemed to be working. "Red Plenty" is about that moment in history, and how it came, and how it went away; about the brief era when, under the rash leadership of Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet Union looked forward to a future of rich communists and envious capitalists, when Moscow would out-glitter Manhattan, every Lada would be better engineered than a Porsche and sputniks would lead the way to the stars. And it's about the scientists who did their genuinely brilliant best to make the dream come true, to give the tyranny its happy ending.
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August 2011
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Architecture and the imaginary
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Poètemoins, anthologie
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L'anthologie du fondateur de la Poésie Concrète au Brésil, auteur d'une œuvre radicale aussi influente dans le champ littéraire qu'artistique. L'anthologie bilingue Poètemoins d'Augusto de Campos regroupe un choix de poèmes à partir de ses trois recueils Viva Vaia (Viva Vivant), Despoesia (Dépoésie) et Nao Poemas (Non Poèmes), des mythiques Poetamenos de 1953 à ses(...)
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L'anthologie du fondateur de la Poésie Concrète au Brésil, auteur d'une œuvre radicale aussi influente dans le champ littéraire qu'artistique. L'anthologie bilingue Poètemoins d'Augusto de Campos regroupe un choix de poèmes à partir de ses trois recueils Viva Vaia (Viva Vivant), Despoesia (Dépoésie) et Nao Poemas (Non Poèmes), des mythiques Poetamenos de 1953 à ses(...)
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L'anthologie du fondateur de la Poésie Concrète au Brésil, auteur d'une œuvre radicale aussi influente dans le champ littéraire qu'artistique. L'anthologie bilingue Poètemoins d'Augusto de Campos regroupe un choix de poèmes à partir de ses trois recueils Viva Vaia (Viva Vivant), Despoesia (Dépoésie) et Nao Poemas (Non Poèmes), des mythiques Poetamenos de 1953 à ses dernières créations. L'ouvrage commence (couverture) par un hommage à Mallarmé, l'hologramme Poema Bomba, à partir d'une phrase citée par Sartre : «Il n'y a pas d'autre bombe qu'un poème» et se termine par une phrase de Mallarmé mise en page typographiquement à la manière concrétiste : «Des contemporains ne savent pas lire», en réponse à un reproche d'obscurité qu'on lui faisait. Cette traduction des principaux poèmes d'Augusto de Campos, le poète de São Paulo à l'origine en 1953, avec le poète suisse Eugen Gomringer, du mouvement international de la Poésie Concrète, a été réalisée à partir notamment des derniers recueils parus au Brésil, dont Não, Non. Les derniers poèmes (notamment présentés dans le cadre de la 11e Biennale de Lyon) sont en fait des fichiers informatiques conçus comme des œuvres. La question posée est celle de la modernité en écriture. Augusto de Campos nous renvoie à cette modernité initiée en France par le Coup de Dés de Mallarmé ou les Idéogrammes lyriques d'Apollinaire. Un poème pose la question de la post avant-garde : Pós-tudo, Post-tout. Avec le mot «MUDO», à la fois «je change» et «muet». L'usage de l'ordinateur comme médium ouvre de nouvelles possibilités à cette avant-garde. Ce qui n'empêche pas le livre, comme en témoigne cet objet, impossible à réaliser sans l'ordinateur. Préface et traductions : Jacques Donguy.
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L'anthologie du fondateur de la Poésie Concrète au Brésil, auteur d'une œuvre radicale aussi influente dans le champ littéraire qu'artistique. L'anthologie bilingue Poètemoins d'Augusto de Campos regroupe un choix de poèmes à partir de ses trois recueils Viva Vaia (Viva Vivant), Despoesia (Dépoésie) et Nao Poemas (Non Poèmes), des mythiques Poetamenos de 1953 à ses dernières créations. L'ouvrage commence (couverture) par un hommage à Mallarmé, l'hologramme Poema Bomba, à partir d'une phrase citée par Sartre : «Il n'y a pas d'autre bombe qu'un poème» et se termine par une phrase de Mallarmé mise en page typographiquement à la manière concrétiste : «Des contemporains ne savent pas lire», en réponse à un reproche d'obscurité qu'on lui faisait. Cette traduction des principaux poèmes d'Augusto de Campos, le poète de São Paulo à l'origine en 1953, avec le poète suisse Eugen Gomringer, du mouvement international de la Poésie Concrète, a été réalisée à partir notamment des derniers recueils parus au Brésil, dont Não, Non. Les derniers poèmes (notamment présentés dans le cadre de la 11e Biennale de Lyon) sont en fait des fichiers informatiques conçus comme des œuvres. La question posée est celle de la modernité en écriture. Augusto de Campos nous renvoie à cette modernité initiée en France par le Coup de Dés de Mallarmé ou les Idéogrammes lyriques d'Apollinaire. Un poème pose la question de la post avant-garde : Pós-tudo, Post-tout. Avec le mot «MUDO», à la fois «je change» et «muet». L'usage de l'ordinateur comme médium ouvre de nouvelles possibilités à cette avant-garde. Ce qui n'empêche pas le livre, comme en témoigne cet objet, impossible à réaliser sans l'ordinateur. Préface et traductions : Jacques Donguy.
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Contemporary short stories enacting giddy, witty revenge on the documents that define and dominate our lives.
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October 2012
October 2012
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Fakes : an anthology of pseudo-interviews, faux-lectures, quasi-letters,
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2001: a space odyssey
2001: a space odyssey
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Written when landing on the moon was still a dream, made into one of the most influential films of our century, brilliant, compulsive, prophetic, 2001: A Space Odyssey tackles the enduring theme of man's place in the universe. Including a new Foreword by the author and a fascinating new introduction by Stephen Baxter, this special edition is an essential addition to every(...)
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Written when landing on the moon was still a dream, made into one of the most influential films of our century, brilliant, compulsive, prophetic, 2001: A Space Odyssey tackles the enduring theme of man's place in the universe. Including a new Foreword by the author and a fascinating new introduction by Stephen Baxter, this special edition is an essential addition to every(...)
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Written when landing on the moon was still a dream, made into one of the most influential films of our century, brilliant, compulsive, prophetic, 2001: A Space Odyssey tackles the enduring theme of man's place in the universe. Including a new Foreword by the author and a fascinating new introduction by Stephen Baxter, this special edition is an essential addition to every SF reader's collection. On the moon an enigma is uncovered. So great are the implications that, for the first time, men are sent out deep into the solar system. But, before they can reach their destination, things begin to go wrong. Horribly wrong.
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Written when landing on the moon was still a dream, made into one of the most influential films of our century, brilliant, compulsive, prophetic, 2001: A Space Odyssey tackles the enduring theme of man's place in the universe. Including a new Foreword by the author and a fascinating new introduction by Stephen Baxter, this special edition is an essential addition to every SF reader's collection. On the moon an enigma is uncovered. So great are the implications that, for the first time, men are sent out deep into the solar system. But, before they can reach their destination, things begin to go wrong. Horribly wrong.
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November 1993
November 1993
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Architecture and the imaginary
Architecture and the imaginary
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The novel explores themes such as the transformation of human psychology by modern technology, and consumer culture's fascination with celebrities and technological commodities. When our narrator smashes his car into another and watches a man die in front of him, his sense of sexual possibilities in the world around him becomes detached. As he begins an affair with the(...)
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The novel explores themes such as the transformation of human psychology by modern technology, and consumer culture's fascination with celebrities and technological commodities. When our narrator smashes his car into another and watches a man die in front of him, his sense of sexual possibilities in the world around him becomes detached. As he begins an affair with the(...)
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The novel explores themes such as the transformation of human psychology by modern technology, and consumer culture's fascination with celebrities and technological commodities. When our narrator smashes his car into another and watches a man die in front of him, his sense of sexual possibilities in the world around him becomes detached. As he begins an affair with the dead mans wife, he finds himself drawn with increasing intensity to the mangled impacts of car crashes.
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The novel explores themes such as the transformation of human psychology by modern technology, and consumer culture's fascination with celebrities and technological commodities. When our narrator smashes his car into another and watches a man die in front of him, his sense of sexual possibilities in the world around him becomes detached. As he begins an affair with the dead mans wife, he finds himself drawn with increasing intensity to the mangled impacts of car crashes.
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November 2009
November 2009
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A rising star in the Russian literary firmament Pelevin, winner of the 1993 Russian Booker Prize for short stories, has written a parody of life under Communism refracted through the prism of the Soviet space program. This clever parable about a young cosmonaut ordered to make the ultimate sacrifice? Killing himself after secretly piloting a supposedly unmanned lunar(...)
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A rising star in the Russian literary firmament Pelevin, winner of the 1993 Russian Booker Prize for short stories, has written a parody of life under Communism refracted through the prism of the Soviet space program. This clever parable about a young cosmonaut ordered to make the ultimate sacrifice? Killing himself after secretly piloting a supposedly unmanned lunar(...)
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Omon Ra
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A rising star in the Russian literary firmament Pelevin, winner of the 1993 Russian Booker Prize for short stories, has written a parody of life under Communism refracted through the prism of the Soviet space program. This clever parable about a young cosmonaut ordered to make the ultimate sacrifice? Killing himself after secretly piloting a supposedly unmanned lunar expedition? is sprinkled with throwaway gags, absurdist humor and wickedly ironic touches, as well as with the eerie beauty of space exploration. Obsessed with space travel since early childhood, Omon Krivomazov identifies with Ra, the ancient Egyptian falcon-headed sun god, a fixation that reflects his desire to escape the gray conformity of Soviet life and his yearning for a soul. Omon learns that more than 100 of his fellow cosmonauts have already been sacrificed as guinea pigs after taking part in supposedly automated, manless launches. Pelevin portrays the Russian space program as a vast propaganda enterprise, a distraction to paper over the tawdriness and fear of everyday life. Many allusions will be lost on American readers. And, in light of the truth-is-stranger-than-fiction state of contemporary Russian society, some of the Soviet-era satire seems oddly tame.
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A rising star in the Russian literary firmament Pelevin, winner of the 1993 Russian Booker Prize for short stories, has written a parody of life under Communism refracted through the prism of the Soviet space program. This clever parable about a young cosmonaut ordered to make the ultimate sacrifice? Killing himself after secretly piloting a supposedly unmanned lunar expedition? is sprinkled with throwaway gags, absurdist humor and wickedly ironic touches, as well as with the eerie beauty of space exploration. Obsessed with space travel since early childhood, Omon Krivomazov identifies with Ra, the ancient Egyptian falcon-headed sun god, a fixation that reflects his desire to escape the gray conformity of Soviet life and his yearning for a soul. Omon learns that more than 100 of his fellow cosmonauts have already been sacrificed as guinea pigs after taking part in supposedly automated, manless launches. Pelevin portrays the Russian space program as a vast propaganda enterprise, a distraction to paper over the tawdriness and fear of everyday life. Many allusions will be lost on American readers. And, in light of the truth-is-stranger-than-fiction state of contemporary Russian society, some of the Soviet-era satire seems oddly tame.
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February 1998
February 1998
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