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Invited to exhibit at the 56th Venice Biennale, e-flux journal produced a single issue over a four-month span, publishing an article a day both online and on site from Venice. In essays, poems, short stories, and plays, artists and theorists trace the negative collective that is the subject of contemporary life, in which art, the internet, and globalization have shed(...)
Supercommunity: diabolical togetherness beyond contemporary art
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Invited to exhibit at the 56th Venice Biennale, e-flux journal produced a single issue over a four-month span, publishing an article a day both online and on site from Venice. In essays, poems, short stories, and plays, artists and theorists trace the negative collective that is the subject of contemporary life, in which art, the internet, and globalization have shed their utopian guises but persist as naked power, in the face of apocalyptic ecological disaster and against the claims of the social commons.
Art Theory
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Cette publication bilingue est le prolongement des discussions ayant eu lieu autour des différentes tables ou espaces thématiques qui composaient la Journée Sans Culture. Les animatrices et animateurs de ces tables thématiques ont tenté d’en refléter l’esprit sinon la lettre, suivant un désir de retrouver une force collective au-delà de la fatigue et de la résignation qui(...)
Troubler la fête, rallumer la joie / To spoil the party, to set our job ablaze
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Cette publication bilingue est le prolongement des discussions ayant eu lieu autour des différentes tables ou espaces thématiques qui composaient la Journée Sans Culture. Les animatrices et animateurs de ces tables thématiques ont tenté d’en refléter l’esprit sinon la lettre, suivant un désir de retrouver une force collective au-delà de la fatigue et de la résignation qui rôdent. À ces textes s’ajoutent ceux de personnes invitées par l’équipe éditoriale afin d’explorer d’autres préoccupations qui n’ont pas été abordées en profondeur lors de la Journée même.
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Floating territories
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This work consists of a box containing a series of experimental and unfolding publications reflecting upon a project of dispersed conversations between architect Yona Friedman, artists Nico Dockx, Helena Sidiropoulos, Jochem Vanden Ecker and sound collective Building Transmissions - all invited by curators Germana Jaulin and Chiara Parisi - to be part of 'Floating(...)
Floating territories
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This work consists of a box containing a series of experimental and unfolding publications reflecting upon a project of dispersed conversations between architect Yona Friedman, artists Nico Dockx, Helena Sidiropoulos, Jochem Vanden Ecker and sound collective Building Transmissions - all invited by curators Germana Jaulin and Chiara Parisi - to be part of 'Floating Territories' - a transbiennial project that took place at the Istanbul/ Athens/ and Venice biennials in 2007. The work is an architecture of thoughts and visual impressions reflecting our Floating Territories journey of experiences.
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The ethics of sightseeing
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The ethics of sightseeing identifies and overcomes common obstacles to ethical sightseeing. Through a combination of personal observation and in-depth scholarship, MacCannell ventures into specific tourist destinations and attractions: "picturesque" rural and natural landscapes, "hip" urban scenes, historic locations of tragic events, Disney theme parks, beaches, and(...)
The ethics of sightseeing
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The ethics of sightseeing identifies and overcomes common obstacles to ethical sightseeing. Through a combination of personal observation and in-depth scholarship, MacCannell ventures into specific tourist destinations and attractions: "picturesque" rural and natural landscapes, "hip" urban scenes, historic locations of tragic events, Disney theme parks, beaches, and travel poster ideals. Demonstrating each act of sightseeing as an ethical test, the book shows how tourists can realize the productive potential of their travel desires, penetrate the collective unconscious, and gain character, insight, and connection to the world.
Critical Theory
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Growth has been both an unspoken and an explicit aim of our individual and collective striving. It governs the lives of microorganisms and galaxies; it shapes the capabilities of our extraordinarily large brains and the fortunes of our economies. Growth is manifested in annual increments of continental crust, a rising gross domestic product, a child's growth chart, the(...)
Growth: from microorganisms to megacities
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Growth has been both an unspoken and an explicit aim of our individual and collective striving. It governs the lives of microorganisms and galaxies; it shapes the capabilities of our extraordinarily large brains and the fortunes of our economies. Growth is manifested in annual increments of continental crust, a rising gross domestic product, a child's growth chart, the spread of cancerous cells. In this book, Vaclav Smil offers systematic investigation of growth in nature and society, from tiny organisms to the trajectories of empires and civilizations.
Environment and environmental theory
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Fifty years after the first exhibition by the Exhibition Design group, Michele Galluzzo recounts the first experiments of the collective in Pre design 1969: Research on plastic laminate by the Exhibition Design group. Made up of leading Italian graphic designers such as Giulio Confalonieri, Silvio Coppola, Franco Grignani, Bruno Munari and Pino Tovaglia, the ED group was(...)
Pre design 1969: plastic laminate
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Fifty years after the first exhibition by the Exhibition Design group, Michele Galluzzo recounts the first experiments of the collective in Pre design 1969: Research on plastic laminate by the Exhibition Design group. Made up of leading Italian graphic designers such as Giulio Confalonieri, Silvio Coppola, Franco Grignani, Bruno Munari and Pino Tovaglia, the ED group was formed in the late 1960s in Milan and in less than a decade gave rise to an extremely interesting experience, which until now has only been partially investigated.
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Rural Urban Framework
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This volume presents the projects of Rural Urban Framework, the non-profit collective of architects based at the University of Hong Kong and led by Joshua Bolchover and John Lin, whose work starts from a careful analysis of the recent urbanization triggered by villages and rural collectives in China to found a procedural and participatory work where architecture can never(...)
Rural Urban Framework
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This volume presents the projects of Rural Urban Framework, the non-profit collective of architects based at the University of Hong Kong and led by Joshua Bolchover and John Lin, whose work starts from a careful analysis of the recent urbanization triggered by villages and rural collectives in China to found a procedural and participatory work where architecture can never be considered a finished product (as we are often used to in the West) but a relational element open to the context in which it operates.
Architecture Monographs
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Studio Mumbai consists of a group of Indian architects and craftsmen, all resident artisans of Studio Mumbai, headed by Bijoy Jain. This book shows the development of Bijoy's personal process as well as the collective dialogue through which projects evolve. To exhibit the process of these conversations, the book gathers sketches made by both Bijoy and the carpenters, as(...)
Studio Mumbai notebook: inspiration and process in architecture
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Studio Mumbai consists of a group of Indian architects and craftsmen, all resident artisans of Studio Mumbai, headed by Bijoy Jain. This book shows the development of Bijoy's personal process as well as the collective dialogue through which projects evolve. To exhibit the process of these conversations, the book gathers sketches made by both Bijoy and the carpenters, as well photographs that the team uses as study and inspiration showcasing a critical part of their design process. Part of Moleskine's Inspiration and Process in Architecture Series.
Architecture Monographs
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Flowers have been a source of inspiration for photographers since the medium’s inception; immortalized by luminaries such as Man Ray, Robert Mapplethorpe, Irving Penn, and Julia Margaret Cameron. Today, flower photography has come into full bloom once again, with photographers capturing flowers in inspiring new ways. Featuring two hundred works, ''Flora photographica''(...)
Flora photographica: Masterworks of contemporary flower photography
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Flowers have been a source of inspiration for photographers since the medium’s inception; immortalized by luminaries such as Man Ray, Robert Mapplethorpe, Irving Penn, and Julia Margaret Cameron. Today, flower photography has come into full bloom once again, with photographers capturing flowers in inspiring new ways. Featuring two hundred works, ''Flora photographica'' links the very best of flower photography from the past twenty years with its predecessors- canonical floral images from the realms of photography, illustration, and painting that have marked the collective imagination.
Photography Collections
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Colquhounery is a commemorative volume celebrating the life and work of the architect and architectural historian Alan Colquhoun, who died in December 2012. Testimonials from friends, colleagues and students are gathered together alongside original photographs, sketches, letter transcripts, biographical and archival data tracing Colquhoun’s career as an architect, writer(...)
Colquhounery: Alan Colquhoun from bricolage to myth
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Colquhounery is a commemorative volume celebrating the life and work of the architect and architectural historian Alan Colquhoun, who died in December 2012. Testimonials from friends, colleagues and students are gathered together alongside original photographs, sketches, letter transcripts, biographical and archival data tracing Colquhoun’s career as an architect, writer and educator on both sides of the Atlantic. This anthology represents a collective effort to remember the work and the man responsible for some penetrating and clear sighted architectural criticism of the last 60 years.
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