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Shanzhai is a Chinese neologism that means "fake," originally coined to describe knock-off cell phones marketed under such names as Nokir and Samsing. These cell phones were not crude forgeries but multifunctional, stylish, and as good as or better than the originals. Shanzhai has since spread into other parts of Chinese life, with shanzhai books, shanzhai politicians,(...)
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Shanzhai is a Chinese neologism that means "fake," originally coined to describe knock-off cell phones marketed under such names as Nokir and Samsing. These cell phones were not crude forgeries but multifunctional, stylish, and as good as or better than the originals. Shanzhai has since spread into other parts of Chinese life, with shanzhai books, shanzhai politicians,(...)
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Shanzhai : deconstruction in chinese
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Shanzhai is a Chinese neologism that means "fake," originally coined to describe knock-off cell phones marketed under such names as Nokir and Samsing. These cell phones were not crude forgeries but multifunctional, stylish, and as good as or better than the originals. Shanzhai has since spread into other parts of Chinese life, with shanzhai books, shanzhai politicians, shanzhai stars. In the West, this would be seen as piracy, or even desecration, but in Chinese culture, originals are continually transformed -- deconstructed. In this volume in the Untimely Meditations series, Byung-Chul Han traces the thread of deconstruction, or "decreation," in Chinese thought, from ancient masterpieces that invite inscription and transcription to Maoism -- "a kind a shanzhai Marxism," Han writes.
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Shanzhai is a Chinese neologism that means "fake," originally coined to describe knock-off cell phones marketed under such names as Nokir and Samsing. These cell phones were not crude forgeries but multifunctional, stylish, and as good as or better than the originals. Shanzhai has since spread into other parts of Chinese life, with shanzhai books, shanzhai politicians, shanzhai stars. In the West, this would be seen as piracy, or even desecration, but in Chinese culture, originals are continually transformed -- deconstructed. In this volume in the Untimely Meditations series, Byung-Chul Han traces the thread of deconstruction, or "decreation," in Chinese thought, from ancient masterpieces that invite inscription and transcription to Maoism -- "a kind a shanzhai Marxism," Han writes.
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October 2017
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Critical Theory
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Buildings must die
Buildings must die
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Buildings, although inanimate, are often assumed to have “life.” And the architect, through the act of design, is assumed to be their conceiver and creator. But what of the “death” of buildings? What of the decay, deterioration, and destruction to which they are inevitably subject? And what might such endings mean for architecture’s sense of itself? In Buildings Must Die,(...)
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Buildings, although inanimate, are often assumed to have “life.” And the architect, through the act of design, is assumed to be their conceiver and creator. But what of the “death” of buildings? What of the decay, deterioration, and destruction to which they are inevitably subject? And what might such endings mean for architecture’s sense of itself? In Buildings Must Die,(...)
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Buildings, although inanimate, are often assumed to have “life.” And the architect, through the act of design, is assumed to be their conceiver and creator. But what of the “death” of buildings? What of the decay, deterioration, and destruction to which they are inevitably subject? And what might such endings mean for architecture’s sense of itself? In Buildings Must Die, Stephen Cairns and Jane Jacobs look awry at core architectural concerns. They examine spalling concrete and creeping rust, contemplate ruins old and new, and pick through the rubble of earthquake-shattered churches, imploded housing projects, and demolished Brutalist office buildings. Their investigation of the death of buildings reorders architectural notions of creativity, reshapes architecture’s preoccupation with good form, loosens its vanities of durability, and expands its sense of value. It does so not to kill off architecture as we know it, but to rethink its agency and its capacity to make worlds differently. Cairns and Jacobs offer an original contemplation of architecture that draws on theories of waste and value. Their richly illustrated case studies of building “deaths” include the planned and the unintended, the lamented and the celebrated. They take us from Moline to Christchurch, from London to Bangkok, from Tokyo to Paris. And they feature the work of such architects as Eero Saarinen, Carlo Scarpa, Cedric Price, Arata Isozaki, Rem Koolhaas and François Roche.
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Buildings, although inanimate, are often assumed to have “life.” And the architect, through the act of design, is assumed to be their conceiver and creator. But what of the “death” of buildings? What of the decay, deterioration, and destruction to which they are inevitably subject? And what might such endings mean for architecture’s sense of itself? In Buildings Must Die, Stephen Cairns and Jane Jacobs look awry at core architectural concerns. They examine spalling concrete and creeping rust, contemplate ruins old and new, and pick through the rubble of earthquake-shattered churches, imploded housing projects, and demolished Brutalist office buildings. Their investigation of the death of buildings reorders architectural notions of creativity, reshapes architecture’s preoccupation with good form, loosens its vanities of durability, and expands its sense of value. It does so not to kill off architecture as we know it, but to rethink its agency and its capacity to make worlds differently. Cairns and Jacobs offer an original contemplation of architecture that draws on theories of waste and value. Their richly illustrated case studies of building “deaths” include the planned and the unintended, the lamented and the celebrated. They take us from Moline to Christchurch, from London to Bangkok, from Tokyo to Paris. And they feature the work of such architects as Eero Saarinen, Carlo Scarpa, Cedric Price, Arata Isozaki, Rem Koolhaas and François Roche.
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August 2017
August 2017
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Architectural Theory
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In "Art Can Help", the internationally acclaimed American photographer Robert Adams offers over two dozen meditations on the purpose of art and the responsibility of the artist. In particular, Adams advocates art that evokes beauty without irony or sentimentality, art that “encourages us to gratitude and engagement, and is of both personal and civic consequence.”(...)
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In "Art Can Help", the internationally acclaimed American photographer Robert Adams offers over two dozen meditations on the purpose of art and the responsibility of the artist. In particular, Adams advocates art that evokes beauty without irony or sentimentality, art that “encourages us to gratitude and engagement, and is of both personal and civic consequence.”(...)
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Art can help : new and selected essays
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In "Art Can Help", the internationally acclaimed American photographer Robert Adams offers over two dozen meditations on the purpose of art and the responsibility of the artist. In particular, Adams advocates art that evokes beauty without irony or sentimentality, art that “encourages us to gratitude and engagement, and is of both personal and civic consequence.” Following an introduction, the book begins with two short essays on the works of the American painter Edward Hopper, an artist venerated by Adams. The rest of this compilation contains texts—more than half of which have never before been published—that contemplate one or two works by an individual artist. The pictures discussed are by noted photographers such as Julia Margaret Cameron, Emmet Gowin, Dorothea Lange, Abelardo Morell, Edward Ranney, Judith Joy Ross, John Szarkowski, and Garry Winogrand. Several essays summon the words of literary figures, including Virginia Woolf and Czeslaw Milosz. Adams’s voice is at once intimate and accessible, and is imbued with the accumulated wisdom of a long career devoted to making and viewing art. This eloquent and moving book champions art that fights against disillusionment and despair.
Art can help : new and selected essays
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In "Art Can Help", the internationally acclaimed American photographer Robert Adams offers over two dozen meditations on the purpose of art and the responsibility of the artist. In particular, Adams advocates art that evokes beauty without irony or sentimentality, art that “encourages us to gratitude and engagement, and is of both personal and civic consequence.” Following an introduction, the book begins with two short essays on the works of the American painter Edward Hopper, an artist venerated by Adams. The rest of this compilation contains texts—more than half of which have never before been published—that contemplate one or two works by an individual artist. The pictures discussed are by noted photographers such as Julia Margaret Cameron, Emmet Gowin, Dorothea Lange, Abelardo Morell, Edward Ranney, Judith Joy Ross, John Szarkowski, and Garry Winogrand. Several essays summon the words of literary figures, including Virginia Woolf and Czeslaw Milosz. Adams’s voice is at once intimate and accessible, and is imbued with the accumulated wisdom of a long career devoted to making and viewing art. This eloquent and moving book champions art that fights against disillusionment and despair.
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September 2017
September 2017
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Art Theory
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One of the nation’s chief architecture critics reveals how the environments we build profoundly shape our feelings, memories, and well-being, and argues that we must harness this knowledge to construct a world better suited to human experience. Taking us on a fascinating journey through some of the world’s best and worst landscapes, buildings, and cityscapes, Sarah(...)
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One of the nation’s chief architecture critics reveals how the environments we build profoundly shape our feelings, memories, and well-being, and argues that we must harness this knowledge to construct a world better suited to human experience. Taking us on a fascinating journey through some of the world’s best and worst landscapes, buildings, and cityscapes, Sarah(...)
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Welcome to your world: how the built environment shapes our lives
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One of the nation’s chief architecture critics reveals how the environments we build profoundly shape our feelings, memories, and well-being, and argues that we must harness this knowledge to construct a world better suited to human experience. Taking us on a fascinating journey through some of the world’s best and worst landscapes, buildings, and cityscapes, Sarah Williams Goldhagen draws from recent research in cognitive neuroscience and psychology to demonstrate how people’s experiences of the places they build are central to their well-being, their physical health, their communal and social lives, and even their very sense of themselves. From this foundation, Goldhagen presents a powerful case that societies must use this knowledge to rethink what and how they
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One of the nation’s chief architecture critics reveals how the environments we build profoundly shape our feelings, memories, and well-being, and argues that we must harness this knowledge to construct a world better suited to human experience. Taking us on a fascinating journey through some of the world’s best and worst landscapes, buildings, and cityscapes, Sarah Williams Goldhagen draws from recent research in cognitive neuroscience and psychology to demonstrate how people’s experiences of the places they build are central to their well-being, their physical health, their communal and social lives, and even their very sense of themselves. From this foundation, Goldhagen presents a powerful case that societies must use this knowledge to rethink what and how they
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April 2017
April 2017
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Urban Theory
Urban Theory
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The long, long life of trees
The long, long life of trees
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Since the beginnings of history trees have served humankind in countless useful ways, but our relationship with trees has many dimensions beyond mere practicality. Trees are so entwined with human experience that diverse species have inspired their own stories, myths, songs, poems, paintings, and spiritual meanings. Some have achieved status as religious, cultural, or(...)
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Since the beginnings of history trees have served humankind in countless useful ways, but our relationship with trees has many dimensions beyond mere practicality. Trees are so entwined with human experience that diverse species have inspired their own stories, myths, songs, poems, paintings, and spiritual meanings. Some have achieved status as religious, cultural, or(...)
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The long, long life of trees
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Since the beginnings of history trees have served humankind in countless useful ways, but our relationship with trees has many dimensions beyond mere practicality. Trees are so entwined with human experience that diverse species have inspired their own stories, myths, songs, poems, paintings, and spiritual meanings. Some have achieved status as religious, cultural, or national symbols. In this beautifully illustrated volume Fiona Stafford offers intimate, detailed explorations of seventeen common trees, from ash and apple to pine, oak, cypress, and willow. The author also pays homage to particular trees, such as the fabled Ankerwyke Yew, under which Henry VIII courted Anne Boleyn, and the spectacular cherry trees of Washington, D.C. Stafford discusses practical uses of wood past and present, tree diseases and environmental threats, and trees’ potential contributions toward slowing global climate change. Brimming with unusual topics and intriguing facts, this book celebrates trees and their long, long lives as our inspiring and beloved natural companions.
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Since the beginnings of history trees have served humankind in countless useful ways, but our relationship with trees has many dimensions beyond mere practicality. Trees are so entwined with human experience that diverse species have inspired their own stories, myths, songs, poems, paintings, and spiritual meanings. Some have achieved status as religious, cultural, or national symbols. In this beautifully illustrated volume Fiona Stafford offers intimate, detailed explorations of seventeen common trees, from ash and apple to pine, oak, cypress, and willow. The author also pays homage to particular trees, such as the fabled Ankerwyke Yew, under which Henry VIII courted Anne Boleyn, and the spectacular cherry trees of Washington, D.C. Stafford discusses practical uses of wood past and present, tree diseases and environmental threats, and trees’ potential contributions toward slowing global climate change. Brimming with unusual topics and intriguing facts, this book celebrates trees and their long, long lives as our inspiring and beloved natural companions.
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April 2017
April 2017
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Landscape Theory
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Traditional cities of the global north are Wasted Cities: urban settlements where it is difficult to develop circular systems on a mainstream basis. The truly Circular City is utopian, an idealized vision for cities where nothing is wasted. The urgency and ambition to create such sustainable urban futures is stronger than ever before. 'Beyond the Wasted City' offers tools(...)
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Traditional cities of the global north are Wasted Cities: urban settlements where it is difficult to develop circular systems on a mainstream basis. The truly Circular City is utopian, an idealized vision for cities where nothing is wasted. The urgency and ambition to create such sustainable urban futures is stronger than ever before. 'Beyond the Wasted City' offers tools(...)
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The wasted city: approaches to circular city making
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Traditional cities of the global north are Wasted Cities: urban settlements where it is difficult to develop circular systems on a mainstream basis. The truly Circular City is utopian, an idealized vision for cities where nothing is wasted. The urgency and ambition to create such sustainable urban futures is stronger than ever before. 'Beyond the Wasted City' offers tools and strategies helping urban professionals, academics, students and citizens bring the discourse and practice of circular city making forward.
The wasted city: approaches to circular city making
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Traditional cities of the global north are Wasted Cities: urban settlements where it is difficult to develop circular systems on a mainstream basis. The truly Circular City is utopian, an idealized vision for cities where nothing is wasted. The urgency and ambition to create such sustainable urban futures is stronger than ever before. 'Beyond the Wasted City' offers tools and strategies helping urban professionals, academics, students and citizens bring the discourse and practice of circular city making forward.
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August 2017
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Urban Theory
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'Go field and towers' is the result of the conversations that occurred in studios taught by Guillaume Othenin-Girard and Nigel Peake between 2012-2014 as part of the first-year course in architectural design directed by the Atelier de la Conception de l’Espace (ALICE) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). By the nature of tutorials, their(...)
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'Go field and towers' is the result of the conversations that occurred in studios taught by Guillaume Othenin-Girard and Nigel Peake between 2012-2014 as part of the first-year course in architectural design directed by the Atelier de la Conception de l’Espace (ALICE) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). By the nature of tutorials, their(...)
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Go field and towers: Guillaume Othenin-Girard, Nigel Peake
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'Go field and towers' is the result of the conversations that occurred in studios taught by Guillaume Othenin-Girard and Nigel Peake between 2012-2014 as part of the first-year course in architectural design directed by the Atelier de la Conception de l’Espace (ALICE) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). By the nature of tutorials, their conversation would often stray to other fields – academic and artistic and in-between. As they worked on this book, they invited guests to make contributions, some of which appear as short essays, others as notes from a conversation.
Go field and towers: Guillaume Othenin-Girard, Nigel Peake
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'Go field and towers' is the result of the conversations that occurred in studios taught by Guillaume Othenin-Girard and Nigel Peake between 2012-2014 as part of the first-year course in architectural design directed by the Atelier de la Conception de l’Espace (ALICE) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). By the nature of tutorials, their conversation would often stray to other fields – academic and artistic and in-between. As they worked on this book, they invited guests to make contributions, some of which appear as short essays, others as notes from a conversation.
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August 2017
August 2017
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Architectural Theory
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Power / architecture
Power / architecture
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Power and architecture are fundamental to the question of how contemporary society and architecture work together. Since power lacks a comprehensive logic, coherence and instrumentalization capability, the question refers both to the autonomous powers of the architectural forms and to a set of external powers represented through architecture. Through eight essays by(...)
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Power and architecture are fundamental to the question of how contemporary society and architecture work together. Since power lacks a comprehensive logic, coherence and instrumentalization capability, the question refers both to the autonomous powers of the architectural forms and to a set of external powers represented through architecture. Through eight essays by(...)
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Architectural Theory
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March 2018
March 2018
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Power / architecture
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Power and architecture are fundamental to the question of how contemporary society and architecture work together. Since power lacks a comprehensive logic, coherence and instrumentalization capability, the question refers both to the autonomous powers of the architectural forms and to a set of external powers represented through architecture. Through eight essays by contributors, along with images, drawings and documents, the book renders visible a set of entities, informal conventions, stakeholders and means involved in the creation of architecture; that is, the dynamics of the collective that ceaselessly tests the architectural composition of the common world. With selected projects by Herzog & de Meuron, Rem Koolhaas, Eduardo Souto de Moura and many more.
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Power and architecture are fundamental to the question of how contemporary society and architecture work together. Since power lacks a comprehensive logic, coherence and instrumentalization capability, the question refers both to the autonomous powers of the architectural forms and to a set of external powers represented through architecture. Through eight essays by contributors, along with images, drawings and documents, the book renders visible a set of entities, informal conventions, stakeholders and means involved in the creation of architecture; that is, the dynamics of the collective that ceaselessly tests the architectural composition of the common world. With selected projects by Herzog & de Meuron, Rem Koolhaas, Eduardo Souto de Moura and many more.
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March 2018
March 2018
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Architectural Theory
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Chaos sublime
Chaos sublime
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« Il faut accepter d’emblée la logique du désordre urbain. D’où le chaos. Un chaos sublime ». Ce livre est l’histoire d’une amitié, puisqu’il est issu de vingt ans de conversations avec Paolo Conti, écrivain et journaliste italien. Il est né aussi du besoin de comprendre les processus de création contemporains, en tenant compte des passions politiques et sociales de notre(...)
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« Il faut accepter d’emblée la logique du désordre urbain. D’où le chaos. Un chaos sublime ». Ce livre est l’histoire d’une amitié, puisqu’il est issu de vingt ans de conversations avec Paolo Conti, écrivain et journaliste italien. Il est né aussi du besoin de comprendre les processus de création contemporains, en tenant compte des passions politiques et sociales de notre(...)
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Chaos sublime
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« Il faut accepter d’emblée la logique du désordre urbain. D’où le chaos. Un chaos sublime ». Ce livre est l’histoire d’une amitié, puisqu’il est issu de vingt ans de conversations avec Paolo Conti, écrivain et journaliste italien. Il est né aussi du besoin de comprendre les processus de création contemporains, en tenant compte des passions politiques et sociales de notre temps qui ont bouleversé et bouleverseront notre façon d’habiter la ville. C’est à travers cette vision de l’architecture que sont abordés tous les grands thèmes contemporains des croissances des villes, des banlieues, des œuvres d’art comme des faillites de l’architecture.
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« Il faut accepter d’emblée la logique du désordre urbain. D’où le chaos. Un chaos sublime ». Ce livre est l’histoire d’une amitié, puisqu’il est issu de vingt ans de conversations avec Paolo Conti, écrivain et journaliste italien. Il est né aussi du besoin de comprendre les processus de création contemporains, en tenant compte des passions politiques et sociales de notre temps qui ont bouleversé et bouleverseront notre façon d’habiter la ville. C’est à travers cette vision de l’architecture que sont abordés tous les grands thèmes contemporains des croissances des villes, des banlieues, des œuvres d’art comme des faillites de l’architecture.
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August 2017
August 2017
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Architectural Theory
Architectural Theory
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The postconceptual condition
The postconceptual condition
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If, as Walter Benjamin claimed, "it is the function of artistic form […] to make historical content into a philosophical truth” then it is the function of criticism to recover and to complete that truth. Contemporary art makes this work more difficult than ever. Today’s art is a point of condensation for a vast array of social and historical forces, economic and political(...)
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If, as Walter Benjamin claimed, "it is the function of artistic form […] to make historical content into a philosophical truth” then it is the function of criticism to recover and to complete that truth. Contemporary art makes this work more difficult than ever. Today’s art is a point of condensation for a vast array of social and historical forces, economic and political(...)
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The postconceptual condition
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If, as Walter Benjamin claimed, "it is the function of artistic form […] to make historical content into a philosophical truth” then it is the function of criticism to recover and to complete that truth. Contemporary art makes this work more difficult than ever. Today’s art is a point of condensation for a vast array of social and historical forces, economic and political forms, and technologies of image production. Contemporary art, Osborne maintains, expresses this condition through its distinctively postconceptual form. These essays—extending the scope and arguments of Osborne’s Anywhere or Not At All: Philosophy of Contemporary Art—move from a philosophical consideration of the changing temporal conditions of capitalist modernity, via problems of formalism, the politics of art and the changing shape of art institutions, to interpretation and analysis of particular works by Akram Zaatari, Xavier Le Roy and Ilya Kabakov, and the postconceptual situation of a crisis-ridden New Music.
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If, as Walter Benjamin claimed, "it is the function of artistic form […] to make historical content into a philosophical truth” then it is the function of criticism to recover and to complete that truth. Contemporary art makes this work more difficult than ever. Today’s art is a point of condensation for a vast array of social and historical forces, economic and political forms, and technologies of image production. Contemporary art, Osborne maintains, expresses this condition through its distinctively postconceptual form. These essays—extending the scope and arguments of Osborne’s Anywhere or Not At All: Philosophy of Contemporary Art—move from a philosophical consideration of the changing temporal conditions of capitalist modernity, via problems of formalism, the politics of art and the changing shape of art institutions, to interpretation and analysis of particular works by Akram Zaatari, Xavier Le Roy and Ilya Kabakov, and the postconceptual situation of a crisis-ridden New Music.
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January 2018
January 2018
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Art Theory
Art Theory
