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The stirring speech given by Peter Sloterdijk in Lucerne in October 2022. From time immemorial, humanity has had to organize their "metabolism with nature." For Marx, the most important factor in this process was labor. When Prometheus, according to the myth, brought fire to earth, another crucial input was added. Fire has been used to cook food and harden tools for(...)
Prometheus's remorse: From the gift of fire to global arson
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The stirring speech given by Peter Sloterdijk in Lucerne in October 2022. From time immemorial, humanity has had to organize their "metabolism with nature." For Marx, the most important factor in this process was labor. When Prometheus, according to the myth, brought fire to earth, another crucial input was added. Fire has been used to cook food and harden tools for hundreds of thousands of years. In this sense, it can be said that all history implies the history of the uses of fire. But whereas trees could only be burnt once, labor and fire shifted with the discovery of underground deposits of coal and oil. Modern humanity, according to Peter Sloterdijk, can be considered a collective of arsonists who set fire to the underground forests and moors. If Prometheus were to return to earth today, he might regret his gift; after all, what looms is nothing less than Ekpyrosis, the demise of the world in fire. And only a new, energetic pacifism can prevent this catastrophe.
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AD: Constructing change
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Every year, nearly 100 billion tonnes of raw material globally is extracted from the earth – approximately half of it for construction purposes. The construction industry is responsible for an estimated third of global waste, while reuse of construction materials is not increasing fast enough. The same sector accounts for at least 40 per cent of global carbon-dioxide(...)
AD: Constructing change
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Every year, nearly 100 billion tonnes of raw material globally is extracted from the earth – approximately half of it for construction purposes. The construction industry is responsible for an estimated third of global waste, while reuse of construction materials is not increasing fast enough. The same sector accounts for at least 40 per cent of global carbon-dioxide emissions. There is thus an urgent need to showcase how novel approaches in digital fabrication might be able to enhance thesustainability of buildings and transform construction. Featuring specialists from architecture, engineering and materials science, this AD presents innovative research and new construction systems, approaches and trends to demonstrate how existing methods and unique concepts that utilise cutting-edge technologies can, in a short space of time, help us advance towards a culture of sustainable construction. It focuses on digital design and manufacturing, including XR technologies, and highlights unique ways to build with earth or concrete.
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Space colonies
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At the beginning of the 1970s, American physicist Gerard K. O’Neill developed the first ideas for colonizing space. Shortly thereafter, Stewart Brand, cyber-communard and editor of the Whole Earth Catalog, took up these ideas and published the book Space Colonies in 1977. Space Colonies, an edition of Brand’s CoEvolution Quarterly, funded by the proceeds of the Whole(...)
Space colonies
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At the beginning of the 1970s, American physicist Gerard K. O’Neill developed the first ideas for colonizing space. Shortly thereafter, Stewart Brand, cyber-communard and editor of the Whole Earth Catalog, took up these ideas and published the book Space Colonies in 1977. Space Colonies, an edition of Brand’s CoEvolution Quarterly, funded by the proceeds of the Whole Earth Catalog, took up the question of whether space might be colonized by the year 2000. Artist Fabian Reimann takes up Brand and O’Neill’s particular strain of techno-utopianism in Space Colonies: A Galactic Freeman’s Journal. In his photo-essay Reimann assembles historical, present-day and speculative material, combining these with fictional and factual stories to create a composite of different images of the world. With global ecological disaster an even more pressing issue than it was in 1977, and the colonization of space still touted by some as a last-ditch resort, Reimann looks back at the dreams and nightmares of the 1970s with a sophisticated visual humor.
Journeys
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In "From Counterculture to Cyberculture", Fred Turner details the previously untold story of a highly influential group of San Francisco Bay Area entrepreneurs: Stewart Brand and the Whole Earth network. Between 1968 and 1998, via such familiar venues as the National Book Award - winning "Whole Earth Catalog", the computer-conferencing system known as WELL, and,(...)
From counterculture to cyberculture
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In "From Counterculture to Cyberculture", Fred Turner details the previously untold story of a highly influential group of San Francisco Bay Area entrepreneurs: Stewart Brand and the Whole Earth network. Between 1968 and 1998, via such familiar venues as the National Book Award - winning "Whole Earth Catalog", the computer-conferencing system known as WELL, and, ultimately, the launch of the wildly successful Wired magazine, Brand and his colleagues brokered a long-running collaboration between San Francisco flower power and the emerging technological hub of Silicon Valley. Thanks to their vision, counterculturalists and technologists alike joined together to reimagine computers as tools for personal liberation, the building of virtual and decidedly alternative communities, and the exploration of bold new social frontiers.While tracing the extraordinary transformation of how our networked culture came to be, Turner's fascinating book reminds us that the distance between the Grateful Dead and Google, between Ken Kesey and the computer itself, is not as great as we might think.
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Robin Hinsch: Wahala
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The images in Wahala depict both the places in the world where raw materials are extracted from the earth for profit, and the people who make their homes there. Photographer Robin Hinsch travelled to where the human impact on the planet was particularly visible to confront the viewer with the blunt ecological and human repercussions of the global reliance on fossil fuels.
Robin Hinsch: Wahala
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The images in Wahala depict both the places in the world where raw materials are extracted from the earth for profit, and the people who make their homes there. Photographer Robin Hinsch travelled to where the human impact on the planet was particularly visible to confront the viewer with the blunt ecological and human repercussions of the global reliance on fossil fuels.
Photography monographs
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Vol2 #9 takes on the UK's services-for-surveillance state, technological utopias, green capitalism and much more. Borders 2.0: Future, Tense – Bryan Finoki and Angela Mitropoulos explore contemporary borderlands though text and image. The Battle of All Mothers – Madame Tlank on welfare, surveillance and working class women. Falling for the Future – Iain Boal(...)
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August 2008
Mute: culture and politics after the net: vol 2, july 2008
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Vol2 #9 takes on the UK's services-for-surveillance state, technological utopias, green capitalism and much more. Borders 2.0: Future, Tense – Bryan Finoki and Angela Mitropoulos explore contemporary borderlands though text and image. The Battle of All Mothers – Madame Tlank on welfare, surveillance and working class women. Falling for the Future – Iain Boal brings modernity's futuramas back down to earth.
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Browning highlights architecture’s best in a range of styles and eras—from James Deering’s Vizcaya, his 1916 Italian Renaissance–inspired villa in Miami, to postwar marvels by Bauhaus practitioners Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (Farnsworth House) and Marcel Breuer (Hooper House II), to more recent constructions, such as Marwan Al-Sayed’s mirage-like House of Earth and Light in(...)
Living architecture: Greatest American houses of the 20th Century
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Browning highlights architecture’s best in a range of styles and eras—from James Deering’s Vizcaya, his 1916 Italian Renaissance–inspired villa in Miami, to postwar marvels by Bauhaus practitioners Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (Farnsworth House) and Marcel Breuer (Hooper House II), to more recent constructions, such as Marwan Al-Sayed’s mirage-like House of Earth and Light in the Southwest desert.
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The big book of green design
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This publication explores the specific techniques and methods that graphic designers are employing worldwide to make their business a more earth-friendly one. Mainly focusing on printed materials, but also showcasing examples of trade show environments, repurposed designs, and the new “anti-packaging” trend, the book showcases over 450 examples of marketing and(...)
The big book of green design
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This publication explores the specific techniques and methods that graphic designers are employing worldwide to make their business a more earth-friendly one. Mainly focusing on printed materials, but also showcasing examples of trade show environments, repurposed designs, and the new “anti-packaging” trend, the book showcases over 450 examples of marketing and collateral materials produced using environmentally favorable methods.
Green Architecture
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Grading is an important aspect of landscape architecture. The book explains the basics such as contour lines, land forms, earth mass calculation, and introduces the topics of slope protection systems, rainwater management, or grading for roads and parking lots. The 2nd edition is updated with new digital technologies including landscapingSMART, DTM and 3D machine control.(...)
Grading: landscapingSmart 3d machine control systems stormwater management
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Grading is an important aspect of landscape architecture. The book explains the basics such as contour lines, land forms, earth mass calculation, and introduces the topics of slope protection systems, rainwater management, or grading for roads and parking lots. The 2nd edition is updated with new digital technologies including landscapingSMART, DTM and 3D machine control. Practical examples and exercises complement the theoretical foundations.
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Radical nature : art and architecture for a changing planet, 1969-2009 / [edited by Francesco Manacorda and Ariella Yedgar].
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London : Koenig Books : Co-edition with Barbican Art Gallery, 2009.