The Anthropocene cookbook
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In the age of the Anthropocene—an era characterized by human-caused climate disaster—catastrophes and dystopias loom. ''The Anthropocene cookbook'' takes our planetary state of emergency as an opportunity to seize the moment to imagine constructive change and new ideas. How can we survive in an age of constant environmental crises? How can we thrive? ''The Anthropocene(...)
The Anthropocene cookbook
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In the age of the Anthropocene—an era characterized by human-caused climate disaster—catastrophes and dystopias loom. ''The Anthropocene cookbook'' takes our planetary state of emergency as an opportunity to seize the moment to imagine constructive change and new ideas. How can we survive in an age of constant environmental crises? How can we thrive? ''The Anthropocene cookbook'' answers these questions by presenting a series of investigative art and design projects that explore how art, food, and creative thinking can prepare us for future catastrophes. This cookbook of ideas rethinks our eating habits and traditions, challenges our food taboos, and proposes new recipes for humanity's survival.
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Philosophy of the tourist
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This philosophical study considers the tourist anew, as a subject position that enables us to redraw the map of globalized culture in an era increasingly in revolt against the liberal intellectual worldview and its call for the welcome of the "Other." Why has the tourist proved so resistant to philosophical treatment, asks Hiroki Azuma. Tracing the reasons for this(...)
Philosophy of the tourist
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This philosophical study considers the tourist anew, as a subject position that enables us to redraw the map of globalized culture in an era increasingly in revolt against the liberal intellectual worldview and its call for the welcome of the "Other." Why has the tourist proved so resistant to philosophical treatment, asks Hiroki Azuma. Tracing the reasons for this exclusion through the work of Rousseau and Voltaire, and subsequently in Kant, Carl Schmitt, Alexandre Kojève, Hannah Arendt, and Hardt and Negri, Azuma contends that the figure of the tourist has been rendered illegible by becoming ensnared in a series of misleading conceptual dichotomies and a linear model of world history.
Critical Theory
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How can we build a sustainable future in a time of climate change and dwindling resources? As our spatial needs begin to evolve more rapidly, architects are exploring ingenious ways in which to reuse and recycle existing buildings; resulting in a stunning transformation of our existing urban fabric. This volume collects the strategies of reuse together, demonstrating(...)
Building for change: The architecture of creative reuse
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How can we build a sustainable future in a time of climate change and dwindling resources? As our spatial needs begin to evolve more rapidly, architects are exploring ingenious ways in which to reuse and recycle existing buildings; resulting in a stunning transformation of our existing urban fabric. This volume collects the strategies of reuse together, demonstrating their power for change through groundbreaking projects from some of the world’s leading architects. From waste repurposed as construction materials, to buildings reworked with canny spatial interventions, and modular structures designed to be dismantled, discover how the architecture of creative reuse is helping us build a better tomorrow.
Contemporary Architecture
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Ce troisième numéro se propose d’examiner la notion complexe et trouble de la souveraineté. Les textes qui y sont recueillis sondent différentes formes de souveraineté – territoriale, corporelle, technologique, nationale – et offrent une (re)définition plurielle du terme à travers ses usages. Ils nous amènent ainsi à nous interroger sur la pertinence et l’utilité du(...)
Cigale n.3 : souverainetés/ sovereignties
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Ce troisième numéro se propose d’examiner la notion complexe et trouble de la souveraineté. Les textes qui y sont recueillis sondent différentes formes de souveraineté – territoriale, corporelle, technologique, nationale – et offrent une (re)définition plurielle du terme à travers ses usages. Ils nous amènent ainsi à nous interroger sur la pertinence et l’utilité du concept dans une perspective décoloniale. // This third issue examines the complex and troubled notion of sovereignty. The collected texts probe various forms of sovereignty– territorial, corporeal, technological, national– and offer a plural (re)definition of the term through its uses. They bring us to question the relevance and usefulness of the concept in a decolonial perspective.
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Sheung Yiu: Ground truth
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What is the relation between what we see and what is there? Follow a group of scientists as they set out to approach the boundaries of satellite imaging in the forests of Finland. Their quest: develop an improved interpretation model of satellite data for remote sensing research, allowing surface features to be distinguished beyond what is shown optically. Sheug Yiu(...)
Sheung Yiu: Ground truth
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What is the relation between what we see and what is there? Follow a group of scientists as they set out to approach the boundaries of satellite imaging in the forests of Finland. Their quest: develop an improved interpretation model of satellite data for remote sensing research, allowing surface features to be distinguished beyond what is shown optically. Sheug Yiu interweaves archival imagery, documentary photography, experimental data, and artistic work to acquaint us with the complexity of seeing in the age of algorithms. Not only does this book explore the act of seeing, it also observes the evolution of visual technology in conversation with our perception and surroundings.
Photography monographs
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Happiness is an everyday term in our lives, and most of us strive to be happy. But defining happiness can be difficult. In this "Very Short Introduction", Dan Haybron considers the true nature of happiness. By examining what it is, assessing its subjective values, its importance in our lives, and how we can (and should) pursue it, he considers the current thinking on(...)
Happiness: a very short introduction
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Happiness is an everyday term in our lives, and most of us strive to be happy. But defining happiness can be difficult. In this "Very Short Introduction", Dan Haybron considers the true nature of happiness. By examining what it is, assessing its subjective values, its importance in our lives, and how we can (and should) pursue it, he considers the current thinking on happiness, from psychology to philosophy. Illustrating the diverse routes to happiness, Haybron reflects on the growing influence of secular Western ideas in the contemporary pursuit of a good life, and considers the influence of social context on our satisfaction and well-being.
Current Exhibitions
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On September 29, 2018, before a live audience at Navy Pier in Chicago, international curator Hans Ulrich Obrist conducted his first US Marathon interview session as part of Art Design Chicago, a yearlong celebration of Chicago’s art and design legacy initiated by the Terra Foundation for American Art. Obrist, who has undertaken a life-long project of interviewing cultural(...)
Creative Chicago: an interview marathon
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On September 29, 2018, before a live audience at Navy Pier in Chicago, international curator Hans Ulrich Obrist conducted his first US Marathon interview session as part of Art Design Chicago, a yearlong celebration of Chicago’s art and design legacy initiated by the Terra Foundation for American Art. Obrist, who has undertaken a life-long project of interviewing cultural figures, spoke with more than twenty of Chicago’s most innovative and influential artists, designers, architects, writers, and other creatives. In their interviews, this diverse group of creatives provided insights into their artistic processes, influences, and ideas about and hopes for their shared city of Chicago.
Art Theory
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This publication is a book of stories, depictions of vanished ways of life told from the point of view of a contemporary observer. The stories tell how people lived in Japan some two hundred years ago, during the late Edo Period, when traditional technology and culture were at the peak of development and realization, just before the country opened itself to the West and(...)
Just enough: lessons in living green from traditional Japan
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This publication is a book of stories, depictions of vanished ways of life told from the point of view of a contemporary observer. The stories tell how people lived in Japan some two hundred years ago, during the late Edo Period, when traditional technology and culture were at the peak of development and realization, just before the country opened itself to the West and joined the ranks of the industrialized nations. They tell of people overcoming many of the identical problems that confront us today--issues of energy, water, materials, food and population--and forging a society that was conservation-minded, waste-free, well-housed, well-fed and economically robust.
History until 1900, Asia
Gerhard Richter: landscapes
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No genre has fascinated Gerhard Richter so consistently throughout his career as that of landscape. Ever since his softly overpainted Views of Corsica series of 1968-69, the artist has revisited and reprised its possibilities, creating black-and-white townscapes based on newspaper picture and amateur photographs, mountain and park scenes with heavy impasto, illusionistic(...)
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Gerhard Richter: landscapes
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No genre has fascinated Gerhard Richter so consistently throughout his career as that of landscape. Ever since his softly overpainted Views of Corsica series of 1968-69, the artist has revisited and reprised its possibilities, creating black-and-white townscapes based on newspaper picture and amateur photographs, mountain and park scenes with heavy impasto, illusionistic seascapes in subtly gradated tones and paintings worked with abstract overpainting. Frequently these paintings interrupt or quietly sabotage the transcendent horizon of the Romantic landscape, but the image presented is not exactly ironized as in other paintings of Richter's. This new edition brings us up to date with Richter's enduring fondness for this subject.
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A paradigm shift is roiling the environmental world. For decades people have unquestioningly accepted the idea that our goal is to preserve nature in its pristine, pre-human state. But many scientists have come to see this as an outdated dream that thwarts bold new plans to save the environment and prevents us from having a fuller relationship with nature. Humans have(...)
Rambunctious garden: saving nature in a post-wild world
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A paradigm shift is roiling the environmental world. For decades people have unquestioningly accepted the idea that our goal is to preserve nature in its pristine, pre-human state. But many scientists have come to see this as an outdated dream that thwarts bold new plans to save the environment and prevents us from having a fuller relationship with nature. Humans have changed the landscapes they inhabit since prehistory, and climate change means even the remotest places now bear the fingerprints of humanity. In this publication, Emma Marris argues convincingly that it is time to look forward and create the "rambunctious garden," a hybrid of wild nature and human management.
Urban Landscapes