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Longtemps ignoré en France, l’écoféminisme occupe aujourd’hui une place importante dans les mouvements féministes. Après deux décennies de réactivation, ses idées semblent désormais largement reprises dans le champ politique au point d’être investies par des projets de société que tout oppose — y compris des idéologies réactionnaires et fascistes. Que tirer de cet(...)
Écoféminismes : Savoirs contre-nature
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Longtemps ignoré en France, l’écoféminisme occupe aujourd’hui une place importante dans les mouvements féministes. Après deux décennies de réactivation, ses idées semblent désormais largement reprises dans le champ politique au point d’être investies par des projets de société que tout oppose — y compris des idéologies réactionnaires et fascistes. Que tirer de cet héritage ambigu?? Écoféminismes propose un pas de côté : partir des enjeux soulevés par l’écoféminisme et y répondre par une repolitisation et une réappropriation de la production des savoirs. Dénaturaliser les sciences pour désassujettir les corps, refuser d’abandonner des espaces de lutte.
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What is architecture when computers redefine it? Two books explore the nature and potential of architecture in the age of artificial intelligence. Inspired by architect Fritz Haller (1924-2012), a virtual persona asks him about the architecture of the future. The first book uses artificial intelligence to network the Internet of Things into a new architecture. The second(...)
Jointing things... on Fritz Haller volume 1 & 2
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What is architecture when computers redefine it? Two books explore the nature and potential of architecture in the age of artificial intelligence. Inspired by architect Fritz Haller (1924-2012), a virtual persona asks him about the architecture of the future. The first book uses artificial intelligence to network the Internet of Things into a new architecture. The second presents six works by Fritz Haller in the multidisciplinary light of the 2020s and shows them like icons that already contain what was only thought of later. The two volumes are neither historical nor analytical - they are visionary and projective and, in some respects, represent an experiment in themselves. They show an architecture that does rethink and does not evaluate.
Architectural Theory
The right to be lazy
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"In capitalist society work is the cause of all intellectual degeneracy, of all organic deformity." Paul Lafargue's "The right to be lazy" spells out with unrivalled clarity the damage inflicted by the myth that endless work is morally virtuous. Presenting an inspiring vision of social equality and of individual human fulfilment, Lafargue's text remains one of the most(...)
The right to be lazy
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"In capitalist society work is the cause of all intellectual degeneracy, of all organic deformity." Paul Lafargue's "The right to be lazy" spells out with unrivalled clarity the damage inflicted by the myth that endless work is morally virtuous. Presenting an inspiring vision of social equality and of individual human fulfilment, Lafargue's text remains one of the most powerful denunciations of "economic prejudices" ever written.
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What is fear?
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Ranging from ancient philosophy to pandemic politics, Agamben’s profound and disquieting essay dismantles the logic that turns emergencies into permanent rule, reason into impotence, and safety into domination. Against the will to fear, he posits an act of memory. Not of facts, but of worldhood itself.
What is fear?
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Ranging from ancient philosophy to pandemic politics, Agamben’s profound and disquieting essay dismantles the logic that turns emergencies into permanent rule, reason into impotence, and safety into domination. Against the will to fear, he posits an act of memory. Not of facts, but of worldhood itself.
Critical Theory
Whose body?
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With philosophical nerve and unforgettable thought experiments, Judith Jarvis Thomson’s "A defense of abortion" transformed the moral debate on reproductive rights. First published in 1971, it became a cornerstone of modern moral philosophy, widely taught, fiercely debated, and endlessly cited. Few essays have so deeply shaped public discourse—or made abstract reasoning(...)
Whose body?
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With philosophical nerve and unforgettable thought experiments, Judith Jarvis Thomson’s "A defense of abortion" transformed the moral debate on reproductive rights. First published in 1971, it became a cornerstone of modern moral philosophy, widely taught, fiercely debated, and endlessly cited. Few essays have so deeply shaped public discourse—or made abstract reasoning feel so urgently and disarmingly human.
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S'appuyant sur la littérature, la philosophie, la psychanalyse et l'histoire, Homi K. Bhabha nous invite à repenser les questions d'identité et d'appartenance nationales ; à dépasser, grâce au concept d'hybridité culturelle, la vision d'un monde dominé par l'opposition entre soi et l'autre ; à saisir comment, par le biais de l'imitation et de l'ambivalence, les colonisés(...)
Les lieux de la culture : Une théorie postcoloniale
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S'appuyant sur la littérature, la philosophie, la psychanalyse et l'histoire, Homi K. Bhabha nous invite à repenser les questions d'identité et d'appartenance nationales ; à dépasser, grâce au concept d'hybridité culturelle, la vision d'un monde dominé par l'opposition entre soi et l'autre ; à saisir comment, par le biais de l'imitation et de l'ambivalence, les colonisés introduisent chez leurs colonisateurs un sentiment d'angoisse qui les affaiblit considérablement ; ou encore, plus largement, à comprendre les liens qui existent entre colonialisme et globalisation.
Critical Theory
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This is a conceptual journey through Joep van Lieshout’s radical thought experiments. The art and design produced by the artist’s studio go beyond aesthetic objects, becoming functional tools for an alternative way of life. The book is like an architectural blueprint for an imaginary house. Readers can wander from one room to another, where each space has specific,(...)
Atelier Van Lieshout: Bad ideas for good living
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This is a conceptual journey through Joep van Lieshout’s radical thought experiments. The art and design produced by the artist’s studio go beyond aesthetic objects, becoming functional tools for an alternative way of life. The book is like an architectural blueprint for an imaginary house. Readers can wander from one room to another, where each space has specific, logical, aesthetical, surprising, and also sometimes unsettling elements. In this way the works are a test – an invitation to look past the initial shock the viewer might experience. This imaginary house does not tell us how to live, but teaches that we must consciously think about the way we organise our lives.
Design Monographs
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Leboncoin. A studio about strange transformations, selective frugality, building engineering poetry, and eventually finding other ways to inhabit what’s already there. Leboncoin is a book featuring the work of second-year B.arch students at ENSA-Versailles. Re-edition of the book originally published in 2020.
Leboncoin
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Leboncoin. A studio about strange transformations, selective frugality, building engineering poetry, and eventually finding other ways to inhabit what’s already there. Leboncoin is a book featuring the work of second-year B.arch students at ENSA-Versailles. Re-edition of the book originally published in 2020.
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Contemporary Architecture
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"Perfection blocks any form of participation and also causes an excessive consumption of resources." In "Form Follows Love," Anna Heringer describes her understanding of architecture. For her new book, she traveled to Bangladesh with Iwan Baan to visit the buildings created there as well as her women's empowerment project, Dipdii Textiles. Dutch photographer Iwan Baan is(...)
Architecture is a tool to improve lives
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"Perfection blocks any form of participation and also causes an excessive consumption of resources." In "Form Follows Love," Anna Heringer describes her understanding of architecture. For her new book, she traveled to Bangladesh with Iwan Baan to visit the buildings created there as well as her women's empowerment project, Dipdii Textiles. Dutch photographer Iwan Baan is best known for his images that show life and interactions in architecture. In Bangladesh, he created intense and sensual images that, between documentation and art, bear witness to what architecture can achieve when it is not about representation but about social benefit.
Architecture Monographs
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Encampments occupied by unhoused and precariously sheltered people have proliferated in recent years in cities and towns across Canada. While right-to-housing legislation and other rights protections exist on paper, their minimal legal force has left municipalities mostly free to use policing and bylaw enforcement to remove encampments from public spaces. The result is(...)
The bylaw state: Encampment evictions and the struggle for public space
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Encampments occupied by unhoused and precariously sheltered people have proliferated in recent years in cities and towns across Canada. While right-to-housing legislation and other rights protections exist on paper, their minimal legal force has left municipalities mostly free to use policing and bylaw enforcement to remove encampments from public spaces. The result is unnoticed but devastating violence against highly vulnerable people who have no choice but to survive in public spaces. Anti-encampment bylaws raise the question of what legal and moral rights unhoused people have to live in public space. ''The Bylaw State'' shows that bylaws are powerful municipal instruments. Far from being innocuous laws enforced by municipal workers, bylaws have quietly emerged over the last two decades as the method of governing homelessness in Canada. Case studies in Prince George and Vancouver demonstrate the extraordinary expansion of municipal bylaws and the place of courts in defending the legal rights of homeless people to take up public space. Legal scholar Alexandra Flynn and sociologist Joe Hermer explain how municipalities create an exclusionary ideal of public space through evictions and banishment, and they make a powerful case for a more inclusive approach that protects people not just spaces.
Humans and cities