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The Utopie group was born in 1966 at Henri Lefebvre's house in the Pyrenees. The eponymous journal edited by Hubert Tonka brought together sociologists Jean Baudrillard, René Lourau, and Catherine Cot, architects Jean Aubert, Jean-Paul Jungmann, Antoine Stinco, and landscape architect Isabelle Auricoste. Over the next decade, both in theory and in practice, the group(...)
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The Utopie group was born in 1966 at Henri Lefebvre's house in the Pyrenees. The eponymous journal edited by Hubert Tonka brought together sociologists Jean Baudrillard, René Lourau, and Catherine Cot, architects Jean Aubert, Jean-Paul Jungmann, Antoine Stinco, and landscape architect Isabelle Auricoste. Over the next decade, both in theory and in practice, the group(...)
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Utopia deferred : Jean Baudrillard, writings for Utopie (1967-1978)
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The Utopie group was born in 1966 at Henri Lefebvre's house in the Pyrenees. The eponymous journal edited by Hubert Tonka brought together sociologists Jean Baudrillard, René Lourau, and Catherine Cot, architects Jean Aubert, Jean-Paul Jungmann, Antoine Stinco, and landscape architect Isabelle Auricoste. Over the next decade, both in theory and in practice, the group articulated a radical ultra-leftist critique of architecture, urbanism, and everyday life. "Utopia deferred" collects all of the essays Jean Baudrillard published in Utopie as well as recent interviews with Jean Baudrillard and Hubert Tonka. Utopie served as a workshop for Baudrillard's thought. Many of the essays he first published in Utopie were seminal for some of his books: "For a critique of the political economy of the sign", "The mirror of production", "Simulations", "Symbolic exchange and death", and "In the shadow of the silent majorities". But Utopie was also a topical journal and a political one; the topics of these essays are often torn from the headlines of the tumultuous decade following the uprisings of May 1968.
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The Utopie group was born in 1966 at Henri Lefebvre's house in the Pyrenees. The eponymous journal edited by Hubert Tonka brought together sociologists Jean Baudrillard, René Lourau, and Catherine Cot, architects Jean Aubert, Jean-Paul Jungmann, Antoine Stinco, and landscape architect Isabelle Auricoste. Over the next decade, both in theory and in practice, the group articulated a radical ultra-leftist critique of architecture, urbanism, and everyday life. "Utopia deferred" collects all of the essays Jean Baudrillard published in Utopie as well as recent interviews with Jean Baudrillard and Hubert Tonka. Utopie served as a workshop for Baudrillard's thought. Many of the essays he first published in Utopie were seminal for some of his books: "For a critique of the political economy of the sign", "The mirror of production", "Simulations", "Symbolic exchange and death", and "In the shadow of the silent majorities". But Utopie was also a topical journal and a political one; the topics of these essays are often torn from the headlines of the tumultuous decade following the uprisings of May 1968.
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October 2006, Cambridge (MA)
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Fiscal crises have cascaded across much of the developing world with devastating results, from Mexico to Indonesia, Russia and Argentina. The extreme volatility in contemporary political economic fortunes seems to mock our best efforts to understand the forces that drive development in the world economy. In this book, David Harvey shows how the disciplines of historical(...)
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Fiscal crises have cascaded across much of the developing world with devastating results, from Mexico to Indonesia, Russia and Argentina. The extreme volatility in contemporary political economic fortunes seems to mock our best efforts to understand the forces that drive development in the world economy. In this book, David Harvey shows how the disciplines of historical(...)
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Spaces of global capitalism : towards a theory of uneven geographical development
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Fiscal crises have cascaded across much of the developing world with devastating results, from Mexico to Indonesia, Russia and Argentina. The extreme volatility in contemporary political economic fortunes seems to mock our best efforts to understand the forces that drive development in the world economy. In this book, David Harvey shows how the disciplines of historical geography yield decisive new insights into the workings of global capitalism, and introduces the concept of uneven geographical development as a revelatory perspective on the forces which create economic success or failure.
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Fiscal crises have cascaded across much of the developing world with devastating results, from Mexico to Indonesia, Russia and Argentina. The extreme volatility in contemporary political economic fortunes seems to mock our best efforts to understand the forces that drive development in the world economy. In this book, David Harvey shows how the disciplines of historical geography yield decisive new insights into the workings of global capitalism, and introduces the concept of uneven geographical development as a revelatory perspective on the forces which create economic success or failure.
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May 2006, London, New York
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Sense and non-sense
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Originally published in french as Sens et non-sens in 1948. the essays in Sense and Non-Sense provide an excellent introduction to Merleau-Ponty's thought. They summarize his previous insights and exhibit their widest range of application-in aesthetics, ethics, politics, and the sciences of man. Each essay opens new perspectives to man's search for reason.
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Originally published in french as Sens et non-sens in 1948. the essays in Sense and Non-Sense provide an excellent introduction to Merleau-Ponty's thought. They summarize his previous insights and exhibit their widest range of application-in aesthetics, ethics, politics, and the sciences of man. Each essay opens new perspectives to man's search for reason.
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Originally published in french as Sens et non-sens in 1948. the essays in Sense and Non-Sense provide an excellent introduction to Merleau-Ponty's thought. They summarize his previous insights and exhibit their widest range of application-in aesthetics, ethics, politics, and the sciences of man. Each essay opens new perspectives to man's search for reason.
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Originally published in french as Sens et non-sens in 1948. the essays in Sense and Non-Sense provide an excellent introduction to Merleau-Ponty's thought. They summarize his previous insights and exhibit their widest range of application-in aesthetics, ethics, politics, and the sciences of man. Each essay opens new perspectives to man's search for reason.
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January 1992, Evanston
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Le système des objets
Le système des objets
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« Les objets en particulier n'épuisent pas leur sens dans leur matérialité et leur fonction pratique. Leur diffusion au gré des finalités de la production, la ventilation incohérente des besoins dans le monde des objets, leur sujétion aux consignes versatiles de la mode : tout cela, apparent, ne doit pas nous cacher que les objets tendent à se constituer en un système(...)
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« Les objets en particulier n'épuisent pas leur sens dans leur matérialité et leur fonction pratique. Leur diffusion au gré des finalités de la production, la ventilation incohérente des besoins dans le monde des objets, leur sujétion aux consignes versatiles de la mode : tout cela, apparent, ne doit pas nous cacher que les objets tendent à se constituer en un système(...)
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« Les objets en particulier n'épuisent pas leur sens dans leur matérialité et leur fonction pratique. Leur diffusion au gré des finalités de la production, la ventilation incohérente des besoins dans le monde des objets, leur sujétion aux consignes versatiles de la mode : tout cela, apparent, ne doit pas nous cacher que les objets tendent à se constituer en un système cohérent de signes, à partir duquel seulement peut s'élaborer un concept de la consommation. C'est la logique et la stratégie de ce système d'objets, où se noue une complicité profonde entre les investissements psychologiques et les impératifs sociaux de prestige, entre les mécanismes projectifs et le jeu complexe des modèles et des séries, qui sont analysées ici. » Jean Baudrillard.
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« Les objets en particulier n'épuisent pas leur sens dans leur matérialité et leur fonction pratique. Leur diffusion au gré des finalités de la production, la ventilation incohérente des besoins dans le monde des objets, leur sujétion aux consignes versatiles de la mode : tout cela, apparent, ne doit pas nous cacher que les objets tendent à se constituer en un système cohérent de signes, à partir duquel seulement peut s'élaborer un concept de la consommation. C'est la logique et la stratégie de ce système d'objets, où se noue une complicité profonde entre les investissements psychologiques et les impératifs sociaux de prestige, entre les mécanismes projectifs et le jeu complexe des modèles et des séries, qui sont analysées ici. » Jean Baudrillard.
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January 1900
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Many definitions of postmodernism focus on its nature as the aftermath of the modern industrial age when technology developed. This book extends that analysis to postmodernism by looking at the status of science, technology, and the arts, the significance of technocracy, and the way the flow of information is controlled in the Western world. This book was originally(...)
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Many definitions of postmodernism focus on its nature as the aftermath of the modern industrial age when technology developed. This book extends that analysis to postmodernism by looking at the status of science, technology, and the arts, the significance of technocracy, and the way the flow of information is controlled in the Western world. This book was originally(...)
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January 1984, Minneapolis, London
January 1984, Minneapolis, London
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The postmodern condition: a report on knowledge
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Many definitions of postmodernism focus on its nature as the aftermath of the modern industrial age when technology developed. This book extends that analysis to postmodernism by looking at the status of science, technology, and the arts, the significance of technocracy, and the way the flow of information is controlled in the Western world. This book was originally published in France as La condition postmoderne: rapport sur le savoir, 1979.
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Many definitions of postmodernism focus on its nature as the aftermath of the modern industrial age when technology developed. This book extends that analysis to postmodernism by looking at the status of science, technology, and the arts, the significance of technocracy, and the way the flow of information is controlled in the Western world. This book was originally published in France as La condition postmoderne: rapport sur le savoir, 1979.
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January 1984, Minneapolis, London
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The primacy of perception
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"The primacy of perception" brings together a number of important studies by Maurice Merleau-Ponty that appeared in various publications from 1947 to 1961. The title essay, which is in essence a presentation of the underlying thesis of his "Phenomenology of perception", is followed by two courses given by Merleau-Ponty at the Sorbonne on phenomenological psychology. "Eye(...)
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"The primacy of perception" brings together a number of important studies by Maurice Merleau-Ponty that appeared in various publications from 1947 to 1961. The title essay, which is in essence a presentation of the underlying thesis of his "Phenomenology of perception", is followed by two courses given by Merleau-Ponty at the Sorbonne on phenomenological psychology. "Eye(...)
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"The primacy of perception" brings together a number of important studies by Maurice Merleau-Ponty that appeared in various publications from 1947 to 1961. The title essay, which is in essence a presentation of the underlying thesis of his "Phenomenology of perception", is followed by two courses given by Merleau-Ponty at the Sorbonne on phenomenological psychology. "Eye and mind" and the concluding chapters present applications of Merleau-Ponty's ideas to the realms of art, philosophy of history, and politics. Taken together, the studies in this volume provide a systematic introduction to the major themes of Merleau-Ponty's philosophy.
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"The primacy of perception" brings together a number of important studies by Maurice Merleau-Ponty that appeared in various publications from 1947 to 1961. The title essay, which is in essence a presentation of the underlying thesis of his "Phenomenology of perception", is followed by two courses given by Merleau-Ponty at the Sorbonne on phenomenological psychology. "Eye and mind" and the concluding chapters present applications of Merleau-Ponty's ideas to the realms of art, philosophy of history, and politics. Taken together, the studies in this volume provide a systematic introduction to the major themes of Merleau-Ponty's philosophy.
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January 1964, Evanston
January 1964, Evanston
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La Raison technicienne croit savoir comment organiser au mieux les choses et les gens, assignant à chacun une place, un rôle, des produits à consommer. Mais l'homme ordinaire se soustrait en silence à cette conformation. Il invente le quotidien grâce aux arts de faire, ruses subtiles, tactiques de résistance par lesquelles il détourne les objets et les codes, se(...)
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La Raison technicienne croit savoir comment organiser au mieux les choses et les gens, assignant à chacun une place, un rôle, des produits à consommer. Mais l'homme ordinaire se soustrait en silence à cette conformation. Il invente le quotidien grâce aux arts de faire, ruses subtiles, tactiques de résistance par lesquelles il détourne les objets et les codes, se(...)
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L'invention du quotidien 1. arts de faire
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La Raison technicienne croit savoir comment organiser au mieux les choses et les gens, assignant à chacun une place, un rôle, des produits à consommer. Mais l'homme ordinaire se soustrait en silence à cette conformation. Il invente le quotidien grâce aux arts de faire, ruses subtiles, tactiques de résistance par lesquelles il détourne les objets et les codes, se réapproprie l'espace et l'usage à sa façon. Tours et traverses, manières de faire des coups, astuces de chasseurs, mobilités, mises en récit et trouvailles de mots, mille pratiques inventives prouvent, à qui sait les voir, que la foule sans qualité n'est pas obéissante et passive, mais pratique l'écart dans l'usage des produits imposés, dans une liberté buissonnière par laquelle chacun tâche de vivre au mieux l'ordre social et la violence des choses. Michel de Certeau, le premier, restitua les ruses anonymes des arts de faire, cet art de vivre la société de consommation. Vite devenues classiques, ses analyses pionnières ont inspiré historiens, philosophes et sociologues.
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La Raison technicienne croit savoir comment organiser au mieux les choses et les gens, assignant à chacun une place, un rôle, des produits à consommer. Mais l'homme ordinaire se soustrait en silence à cette conformation. Il invente le quotidien grâce aux arts de faire, ruses subtiles, tactiques de résistance par lesquelles il détourne les objets et les codes, se réapproprie l'espace et l'usage à sa façon. Tours et traverses, manières de faire des coups, astuces de chasseurs, mobilités, mises en récit et trouvailles de mots, mille pratiques inventives prouvent, à qui sait les voir, que la foule sans qualité n'est pas obéissante et passive, mais pratique l'écart dans l'usage des produits imposés, dans une liberté buissonnière par laquelle chacun tâche de vivre au mieux l'ordre social et la violence des choses. Michel de Certeau, le premier, restitua les ruses anonymes des arts de faire, cet art de vivre la société de consommation. Vite devenues classiques, ses analyses pionnières ont inspiré historiens, philosophes et sociologues.
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January 2002, Paris
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Mythologies
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"Mythologies" illustrates the beautiful generosity of Barthes's progressive interest in the meaning (his word is signification) of practically everything around him, not only the books and paintings of high art, but also the slogans, trivia, toys, food, and popular rituals (cruises, striptease, eating, wrestling matches) of contemporary life . . . For Barthes, words and(...)
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"Mythologies" illustrates the beautiful generosity of Barthes's progressive interest in the meaning (his word is signification) of practically everything around him, not only the books and paintings of high art, but also the slogans, trivia, toys, food, and popular rituals (cruises, striptease, eating, wrestling matches) of contemporary life . . . For Barthes, words and(...)
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"Mythologies" illustrates the beautiful generosity of Barthes's progressive interest in the meaning (his word is signification) of practically everything around him, not only the books and paintings of high art, but also the slogans, trivia, toys, food, and popular rituals (cruises, striptease, eating, wrestling matches) of contemporary life . . . For Barthes, words and objects have in common the organized capacity to say something; at the same time, since they are signs, words and objects have the bad faith always to appear natural to their consumer, as if what they say is eternal, true, necessary, instead of arbitrary, made, contingent. Mythologies finds Barthes revealing the fashioned systems of ideas that make it possible, for example, for 'Einstein's brain' to stand for, be the myth of, 'a genius so lacking in magic that one speaks about his thought as a functional labor analogous to the mechanical making of sausages.' Each of the little essays in this book wrenches a definition out of a common but constructed object, making the object speak its hidden, but ever-so-present, reservoir of manufactured sense." -Edward W. Said
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"Mythologies" illustrates the beautiful generosity of Barthes's progressive interest in the meaning (his word is signification) of practically everything around him, not only the books and paintings of high art, but also the slogans, trivia, toys, food, and popular rituals (cruises, striptease, eating, wrestling matches) of contemporary life . . . For Barthes, words and objects have in common the organized capacity to say something; at the same time, since they are signs, words and objects have the bad faith always to appear natural to their consumer, as if what they say is eternal, true, necessary, instead of arbitrary, made, contingent. Mythologies finds Barthes revealing the fashioned systems of ideas that make it possible, for example, for 'Einstein's brain' to stand for, be the myth of, 'a genius so lacking in magic that one speaks about his thought as a functional labor analogous to the mechanical making of sausages.' Each of the little essays in this book wrenches a definition out of a common but constructed object, making the object speak its hidden, but ever-so-present, reservoir of manufactured sense." -Edward W. Said
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January 1993, New York
January 1993, New York
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Originally published as Mille Plateaux, volume 2 of Capitalisme et Schizophrénie, 1980. A Thousand Plateaus continues the work Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari began in Anti-Oedipus and has now become established as one of the classic studies of the development of critical theory in the late twentieth century. It occupies an important place at the center of the debate(...)
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Originally published as Mille Plateaux, volume 2 of Capitalisme et Schizophrénie, 1980. A Thousand Plateaus continues the work Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari began in Anti-Oedipus and has now become established as one of the classic studies of the development of critical theory in the late twentieth century. It occupies an important place at the center of the debate(...)
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December 1987, London, Minneapolis
December 1987, London, Minneapolis
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A thousand plateaus capitalism and schizophrenia
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Originally published as Mille Plateaux, volume 2 of Capitalisme et Schizophrénie, 1980. A Thousand Plateaus continues the work Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari began in Anti-Oedipus and has now become established as one of the classic studies of the development of critical theory in the late twentieth century. It occupies an important place at the center of the debate reassessing the works of Freud and Marx, advancing an approach that is neither Freudian nor Marxist but which learns from both to find an entirely new and radical path. It presents an attempt to pioneer a variety of social and psychological analyses free of the philosophical encumbrances criticized by postmodern writers. A Thousand Plateaus is an essential text for feminists, literary theorists, social scientists, philosophers, and others interested in the problems of contemporary Western culture.
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Originally published as Mille Plateaux, volume 2 of Capitalisme et Schizophrénie, 1980. A Thousand Plateaus continues the work Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari began in Anti-Oedipus and has now become established as one of the classic studies of the development of critical theory in the late twentieth century. It occupies an important place at the center of the debate reassessing the works of Freud and Marx, advancing an approach that is neither Freudian nor Marxist but which learns from both to find an entirely new and radical path. It presents an attempt to pioneer a variety of social and psychological analyses free of the philosophical encumbrances criticized by postmodern writers. A Thousand Plateaus is an essential text for feminists, literary theorists, social scientists, philosophers, and others interested in the problems of contemporary Western culture.
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December 1987, London, Minneapolis
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Deepening and extending his earlier work, Paul Virilio explores the growing danger of what he calls a "generalized accident," provoked by the breakdown of our collective and individual relation to time, space and movement in the contex of global electronic media. Translated by Julie Rose.
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Deepening and extending his earlier work, Paul Virilio explores the growing danger of what he calls a "generalized accident," provoked by the breakdown of our collective and individual relation to time, space and movement in the contex of global electronic media. Translated by Julie Rose.
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Deepening and extending his earlier work, Paul Virilio explores the growing danger of what he calls a "generalized accident," provoked by the breakdown of our collective and individual relation to time, space and movement in the contex of global electronic media. Translated by Julie Rose.
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Deepening and extending his earlier work, Paul Virilio explores the growing danger of what he calls a "generalized accident," provoked by the breakdown of our collective and individual relation to time, space and movement in the contex of global electronic media. Translated by Julie Rose.
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July 1997, London / New York
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