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Walter Benjamin 1892-1940
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La gloire posthume est le lot des inclassables. On n’a mesuré l’importance de Walter Benjamin qu’après sa mort. Au croisement de la biographie, de la philosophie politique et de la critique littéraire, Hannah Arendt retrace dans cet essai daté de 1971 le destin individuel et l’itinéraire spirituel d’un homme pris dans “les sombres temps”. La vie de Benjamin ne fut qu’un(...)
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La gloire posthume est le lot des inclassables. On n’a mesuré l’importance de Walter Benjamin qu’après sa mort. Au croisement de la biographie, de la philosophie politique et de la critique littéraire, Hannah Arendt retrace dans cet essai daté de 1971 le destin individuel et l’itinéraire spirituel d’un homme pris dans “les sombres temps”. La vie de Benjamin ne fut qu’un(...)
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Walter Benjamin 1892-1940
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La gloire posthume est le lot des inclassables. On n’a mesuré l’importance de Walter Benjamin qu’après sa mort. Au croisement de la biographie, de la philosophie politique et de la critique littéraire, Hannah Arendt retrace dans cet essai daté de 1971 le destin individuel et l’itinéraire spirituel d’un homme pris dans “les sombres temps”. La vie de Benjamin ne fut qu’un “entassement de débris”, placée sous le signe de la malchance. Ce mélange de faiblesse et de génie le rendait totalement incapable de faire face aux difficultés de l’existence. Arendt, fidèle aux grands thèmes qui structurent sa pensée, analyse ses rapports tourmentés avec la judéité et le marxisme, son amour de Paris et de la flânerie ainsi que ses relations complexes avec les intellectuels de son temps. Plongeant au plus intime de l’œuvre, elle décortique la façon unique en son genre qu’il avait de “penser poétiquement”. Philosophe elle-même inclassable, Hannah Arendt était la mieux à même de saisir la subtilité de la figure de Walter Benjamin. Le portrait sensible qu’elle dresse de cet homme constitue sans conteste la meilleure introduction à son œuvre.
Walter Benjamin 1892-1940
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La gloire posthume est le lot des inclassables. On n’a mesuré l’importance de Walter Benjamin qu’après sa mort. Au croisement de la biographie, de la philosophie politique et de la critique littéraire, Hannah Arendt retrace dans cet essai daté de 1971 le destin individuel et l’itinéraire spirituel d’un homme pris dans “les sombres temps”. La vie de Benjamin ne fut qu’un “entassement de débris”, placée sous le signe de la malchance. Ce mélange de faiblesse et de génie le rendait totalement incapable de faire face aux difficultés de l’existence. Arendt, fidèle aux grands thèmes qui structurent sa pensée, analyse ses rapports tourmentés avec la judéité et le marxisme, son amour de Paris et de la flânerie ainsi que ses relations complexes avec les intellectuels de son temps. Plongeant au plus intime de l’œuvre, elle décortique la façon unique en son genre qu’il avait de “penser poétiquement”. Philosophe elle-même inclassable, Hannah Arendt était la mieux à même de saisir la subtilité de la figure de Walter Benjamin. Le portrait sensible qu’elle dresse de cet homme constitue sans conteste la meilleure introduction à son œuvre.
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February 2014
February 2014
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Critical Theory
Critical Theory
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The radical youth movements of the 1960s and '70s gave rise to both militant political groups ranging from urban guerrilla groups to autonomist counterculture, as well as radical media, including radio, music, film, video, and television. This book is concerned with both of those tendencies considered as bifurcations of radical media ecologies in the 1970s. While some of(...)
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The radical youth movements of the 1960s and '70s gave rise to both militant political groups ranging from urban guerrilla groups to autonomist counterculture, as well as radical media, including radio, music, film, video, and television. This book is concerned with both of those tendencies considered as bifurcations of radical media ecologies in the 1970s. While some of(...)
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Guerrilla networks: an anarchaeology of 1970s radical media ecologies
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The radical youth movements of the 1960s and '70s gave rise to both militant political groups ranging from urban guerrilla groups to autonomist counterculture, as well as radical media, including radio, music, film, video, and television. This book is concerned with both of those tendencies considered as bifurcations of radical media ecologies in the 1970s. While some of the forms of media creativity and invention mapped here, such as militant film and video, pirate radio and guerrilla television, fit within conventional definitions of media, others, such as urban guerrilla groups and autonomous movements, do not. Nevertheless what was at stake in all these ventures was the use of available means of expression in order to produce transformative effects, and they were all in different ways responding to ideas and practices of guerrilla struggle and specifically of guerrilla media. This book examines these radical media ecologies as guerrilla networks, emphasising the proximity and inseparability of radical media and political practices.
Guerrilla networks: an anarchaeology of 1970s radical media ecologies
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The radical youth movements of the 1960s and '70s gave rise to both militant political groups ranging from urban guerrilla groups to autonomist counterculture, as well as radical media, including radio, music, film, video, and television. This book is concerned with both of those tendencies considered as bifurcations of radical media ecologies in the 1970s. While some of the forms of media creativity and invention mapped here, such as militant film and video, pirate radio and guerrilla television, fit within conventional definitions of media, others, such as urban guerrilla groups and autonomous movements, do not. Nevertheless what was at stake in all these ventures was the use of available means of expression in order to produce transformative effects, and they were all in different ways responding to ideas and practices of guerrilla struggle and specifically of guerrilla media. This book examines these radical media ecologies as guerrilla networks, emphasising the proximity and inseparability of radical media and political practices.
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January 2018
January 2018
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Art Theory
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In "Cities in the Urban Age", Robert A. Beauregard considers the city as a cauldron for four haunting contradictions. First, cities are equally defined by both their wealth and their poverty. Second, cities are simultaneously environmentally destructive and yet promise sustainability. Third, cities encourage rule by political machines and oligarchies, even as they are(...)
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In "Cities in the Urban Age", Robert A. Beauregard considers the city as a cauldron for four haunting contradictions. First, cities are equally defined by both their wealth and their poverty. Second, cities are simultaneously environmentally destructive and yet promise sustainability. Third, cities encourage rule by political machines and oligarchies, even as they are(...)
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Cities in the urban age: a dissent
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In "Cities in the Urban Age", Robert A. Beauregard considers the city as a cauldron for four haunting contradictions. First, cities are equally defined by both their wealth and their poverty. Second, cities are simultaneously environmentally destructive and yet promise sustainability. Third, cities encourage rule by political machines and oligarchies, even as they are essentially democratic and at least nominally open to all. And fourth, city life promotes tolerance among disparate groups, even as the friction among them often erupts into violence. Beauregard offers no simple solutions or proposed remedies for these contradictions. Without these four tensions, cities wouldn’t be cities. Rather, Beauregard argues that only by recognizing these ambiguities and contradictions can we even begin to understand our moral obligations, as well as the clearest paths toward equality, justice, and peace in urban settings.
Cities in the urban age: a dissent
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In "Cities in the Urban Age", Robert A. Beauregard considers the city as a cauldron for four haunting contradictions. First, cities are equally defined by both their wealth and their poverty. Second, cities are simultaneously environmentally destructive and yet promise sustainability. Third, cities encourage rule by political machines and oligarchies, even as they are essentially democratic and at least nominally open to all. And fourth, city life promotes tolerance among disparate groups, even as the friction among them often erupts into violence. Beauregard offers no simple solutions or proposed remedies for these contradictions. Without these four tensions, cities wouldn’t be cities. Rather, Beauregard argues that only by recognizing these ambiguities and contradictions can we even begin to understand our moral obligations, as well as the clearest paths toward equality, justice, and peace in urban settings.
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March 2018
March 2018
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Urban Theory
Urban Theory
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"Listening to Design" leads readers into the unique world of the creative process. Drawing on his experience as a teacher, psychotherapist and architect, Andrew Levitt breaks down the creative process, from the moment an idea appears through to the final presentation of a project. Using stories, examples and insights, Levitt offers a rarely seen glimpse into the rich and(...)
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"Listening to Design" leads readers into the unique world of the creative process. Drawing on his experience as a teacher, psychotherapist and architect, Andrew Levitt breaks down the creative process, from the moment an idea appears through to the final presentation of a project. Using stories, examples and insights, Levitt offers a rarely seen glimpse into the rich and(...)
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Listening to design: a guide to the creative process
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"Listening to Design" leads readers into the unique world of the creative process. Drawing on his experience as a teacher, psychotherapist and architect, Andrew Levitt breaks down the creative process, from the moment an idea appears through to the final presentation of a project. Using stories, examples and insights, Levitt offers a rarely seen glimpse into the rich and often turbulent creative process of a working designer. He highlights the importance of active listening and the essential role of empathy in solving problems and overcoming obstacles, revealing how the process of design is a vehicle for personal growth and development.
Listening to design: a guide to the creative process
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"Listening to Design" leads readers into the unique world of the creative process. Drawing on his experience as a teacher, psychotherapist and architect, Andrew Levitt breaks down the creative process, from the moment an idea appears through to the final presentation of a project. Using stories, examples and insights, Levitt offers a rarely seen glimpse into the rich and often turbulent creative process of a working designer. He highlights the importance of active listening and the essential role of empathy in solving problems and overcoming obstacles, revealing how the process of design is a vehicle for personal growth and development.
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March 2018
March 2018
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Design Theory
Design Theory
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Mirages have long astonished travellers and beguiled thirsty desert voyagers. Chinese and Japanese poetry and images depicted mirages as the exhalations of clam-monsters. Indian sources related them to the ‘thirst of gazelles’, a metaphor for the futility of desire. From the late eighteenth century to the present, mirages became a symbol of ‘Oriental despotism’, a malign,(...)
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Mirages have long astonished travellers and beguiled thirsty desert voyagers. Chinese and Japanese poetry and images depicted mirages as the exhalations of clam-monsters. Indian sources related them to the ‘thirst of gazelles’, a metaphor for the futility of desire. From the late eighteenth century to the present, mirages became a symbol of ‘Oriental despotism’, a malign,(...)
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The waterless sea: a curious history of mirages
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Mirages have long astonished travellers and beguiled thirsty desert voyagers. Chinese and Japanese poetry and images depicted mirages as the exhalations of clam-monsters. Indian sources related them to the ‘thirst of gazelles’, a metaphor for the futility of desire. From the late eighteenth century to the present, mirages became a symbol of ‘Oriental despotism’, a malign, but also enchanted, emblem. But the mirage motif is rarely simply condemnatory. More commonly it conveys a sense of escape, of fascination, of a desire to be deceived. "The Waterless Sea" is the first book devoted to the theories and history of mirages. Christopher Pinney navigates a sinuous pathway through a mysterious and evanescent terrain, showing how mirages have impacted politics, culture, science, and religion, and how we can continue to learn from their sublimity.
The waterless sea: a curious history of mirages
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Mirages have long astonished travellers and beguiled thirsty desert voyagers. Chinese and Japanese poetry and images depicted mirages as the exhalations of clam-monsters. Indian sources related them to the ‘thirst of gazelles’, a metaphor for the futility of desire. From the late eighteenth century to the present, mirages became a symbol of ‘Oriental despotism’, a malign, but also enchanted, emblem. But the mirage motif is rarely simply condemnatory. More commonly it conveys a sense of escape, of fascination, of a desire to be deceived. "The Waterless Sea" is the first book devoted to the theories and history of mirages. Christopher Pinney navigates a sinuous pathway through a mysterious and evanescent terrain, showing how mirages have impacted politics, culture, science, and religion, and how we can continue to learn from their sublimity.
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May 2018
May 2018
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Art Theory
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Released as a companion to an eponymous exhibition at MAAT, Lisbon, this book features previously unpublished essays on the ongoing transition from the notion of utopia towards its opposite image of dystopia. It acts as a reader for the curatorial project in which each author reflects on the unsurprising demise of utopian ideals. Yet, as humans, we need positive and(...)
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Released as a companion to an eponymous exhibition at MAAT, Lisbon, this book features previously unpublished essays on the ongoing transition from the notion of utopia towards its opposite image of dystopia. It acts as a reader for the curatorial project in which each author reflects on the unsurprising demise of utopian ideals. Yet, as humans, we need positive and(...)
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Architectural Theory
Architectural Theory
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August 2017
August 2017
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Utopia / Dystopia: a paradigm shift in art and architecture
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Released as a companion to an eponymous exhibition at MAAT, Lisbon, this book features previously unpublished essays on the ongoing transition from the notion of utopia towards its opposite image of dystopia. It acts as a reader for the curatorial project in which each author reflects on the unsurprising demise of utopian ideals. Yet, as humans, we need positive and idealistic impulses that help us overcome feelings of permanent crisis and disbelief. The dystopia that has come to be accepted and absorbed in human existence can only be combated with a “utopian impulse”. With contributions by Pedro Gadanho, Susana Ventura, Keller Easterling, Franco Berardi, and more.
Utopia / Dystopia: a paradigm shift in art and architecture
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Released as a companion to an eponymous exhibition at MAAT, Lisbon, this book features previously unpublished essays on the ongoing transition from the notion of utopia towards its opposite image of dystopia. It acts as a reader for the curatorial project in which each author reflects on the unsurprising demise of utopian ideals. Yet, as humans, we need positive and idealistic impulses that help us overcome feelings of permanent crisis and disbelief. The dystopia that has come to be accepted and absorbed in human existence can only be combated with a “utopian impulse”. With contributions by Pedro Gadanho, Susana Ventura, Keller Easterling, Franco Berardi, and more.
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Architectural Theory
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Rather than conceiving of bodies as constantly rendered docile within the spaces of the post-industrial nation state, "Radical Space" reveals how activists and artists have deployed these theoretical tools to examine and contest spatial practice.. Bringing together contributions from academics across the humanities and social sciences together with creative artists this(...)
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Rather than conceiving of bodies as constantly rendered docile within the spaces of the post-industrial nation state, "Radical Space" reveals how activists and artists have deployed these theoretical tools to examine and contest spatial practice.. Bringing together contributions from academics across the humanities and social sciences together with creative artists this(...)
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Radical space: exploring politics and practice
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Rather than conceiving of bodies as constantly rendered docile within the spaces of the post-industrial nation state, "Radical Space" reveals how activists and artists have deployed these theoretical tools to examine and contest spatial practice.. Bringing together contributions from academics across the humanities and social sciences together with creative artists this dynamically multidisciplinary collection demonstrates this radicalization of space through explorations of environmental camps, new explorations of psychogeography, creative interventions in city space and mapping the extra-terrestrial onto the mundane spaces of everyday existence.
Radical space: exploring politics and practice
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Rather than conceiving of bodies as constantly rendered docile within the spaces of the post-industrial nation state, "Radical Space" reveals how activists and artists have deployed these theoretical tools to examine and contest spatial practice.. Bringing together contributions from academics across the humanities and social sciences together with creative artists this dynamically multidisciplinary collection demonstrates this radicalization of space through explorations of environmental camps, new explorations of psychogeography, creative interventions in city space and mapping the extra-terrestrial onto the mundane spaces of everyday existence.
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March 2016
March 2016
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Critical Theory
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Les écrits d'une figure essentielle et incontournable du design italien contemporain, architecte, designer, rédacteur en chef, essayiste, poète et théoricien, permettent de suivre l'évolution de sa pensée et le développement de son œuvre, avec un appareil critique complet et des introductions historiques et théoriques pour saisir le contexte italien et international qui(...)
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Les écrits d'une figure essentielle et incontournable du design italien contemporain, architecte, designer, rédacteur en chef, essayiste, poète et théoricien, permettent de suivre l'évolution de sa pensée et le développement de son œuvre, avec un appareil critique complet et des introductions historiques et théoriques pour saisir le contexte italien et international qui(...)
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Alessandro Mendini, Écrits : architecture, design et projet
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Les écrits d'une figure essentielle et incontournable du design italien contemporain, architecte, designer, rédacteur en chef, essayiste, poète et théoricien, permettent de suivre l'évolution de sa pensée et le développement de son œuvre, avec un appareil critique complet et des introductions historiques et théoriques pour saisir le contexte italien et international qui préside à leur écriture.
Alessandro Mendini, Écrits : architecture, design et projet
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Les écrits d'une figure essentielle et incontournable du design italien contemporain, architecte, designer, rédacteur en chef, essayiste, poète et théoricien, permettent de suivre l'évolution de sa pensée et le développement de son œuvre, avec un appareil critique complet et des introductions historiques et théoriques pour saisir le contexte italien et international qui préside à leur écriture.
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September 2014
September 2014
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Design Theory
Design Theory
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L'archipel des savants: histoire des anciennes villes d'élite du complexe scientifique soviétique
L'archipel des savants: histoire des anciennes villes d'élite du complexe scientifique soviétique
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Révélé par Soljenitsyne en 1973, le Goulag n’était pas le seul archipel créé par le pouvoir soviétique. Un autre système d’îlots urbains s’est développé dès les années 1950, afin de produire les instruments de la puissance soviétique. Longtemps « invisibles », ces villes fermées, voire non cartographiées, ont produit durant la guerre froide le nec plus ultra scientifique(...)
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Révélé par Soljenitsyne en 1973, le Goulag n’était pas le seul archipel créé par le pouvoir soviétique. Un autre système d’îlots urbains s’est développé dès les années 1950, afin de produire les instruments de la puissance soviétique. Longtemps « invisibles », ces villes fermées, voire non cartographiées, ont produit durant la guerre froide le nec plus ultra scientifique(...)
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L'archipel des savants: histoire des anciennes villes d'élite du complexe scientifique soviétique
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Révélé par Soljenitsyne en 1973, le Goulag n’était pas le seul archipel créé par le pouvoir soviétique. Un autre système d’îlots urbains s’est développé dès les années 1950, afin de produire les instruments de la puissance soviétique. Longtemps « invisibles », ces villes fermées, voire non cartographiées, ont produit durant la guerre froide le nec plus ultra scientifique et militaire nécessaire à la compétition technologique est-ouest : essais atomiques, réacteurs nucléaires, accélérateurs de particules, ordinateurs, modules spatiaux. Un siècle après la Révolution d'Octobre 1917, l'essai de Kevin Limonier s'applique à décrire les mutations de Baïkonour, Obninsk, Doubna ou Akademgorodok, depuis l’URSS de Khrouchtchev jusqu’à la Russie de Vladimir Poutine.
L'archipel des savants: histoire des anciennes villes d'élite du complexe scientifique soviétique
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Révélé par Soljenitsyne en 1973, le Goulag n’était pas le seul archipel créé par le pouvoir soviétique. Un autre système d’îlots urbains s’est développé dès les années 1950, afin de produire les instruments de la puissance soviétique. Longtemps « invisibles », ces villes fermées, voire non cartographiées, ont produit durant la guerre froide le nec plus ultra scientifique et militaire nécessaire à la compétition technologique est-ouest : essais atomiques, réacteurs nucléaires, accélérateurs de particules, ordinateurs, modules spatiaux. Un siècle après la Révolution d'Octobre 1917, l'essai de Kevin Limonier s'applique à décrire les mutations de Baïkonour, Obninsk, Doubna ou Akademgorodok, depuis l’URSS de Khrouchtchev jusqu’à la Russie de Vladimir Poutine.
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February 2018
February 2018
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Architectural Theory
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"Botanical Drift" explores the hermeneutics, historicization, semiotics, and symbiosis of plant diversification, species cultivation, and destruction—past and present, extant and extinct—around the globe. Plant histories are explored as commodities and colonial as well as decolonial devices by significant and diverse feminist, art-historical, and anthropological(...)
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"Botanical Drift" explores the hermeneutics, historicization, semiotics, and symbiosis of plant diversification, species cultivation, and destruction—past and present, extant and extinct—around the globe. Plant histories are explored as commodities and colonial as well as decolonial devices by significant and diverse feminist, art-historical, and anthropological(...)
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Botanical Drift: protagonists of the invasive herbarium
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"Botanical Drift" explores the hermeneutics, historicization, semiotics, and symbiosis of plant diversification, species cultivation, and destruction—past and present, extant and extinct—around the globe. Plant histories are explored as commodities and colonial as well as decolonial devices by significant and diverse feminist, art-historical, and anthropological voices—from Germaine Greer to herman de vries—bringing new perspectives through photo-essays, fiction, performance, and interventions in ecological, film, and translation archives. Reflecting on experimental ecology—the undiscovered, underestimated, and undesired non-European flora and fauna—it challenges perception and inspires potentialities to bring new understandings of the undergrowth of the Kew Gardens botany collection.
Botanical Drift: protagonists of the invasive herbarium
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"Botanical Drift" explores the hermeneutics, historicization, semiotics, and symbiosis of plant diversification, species cultivation, and destruction—past and present, extant and extinct—around the globe. Plant histories are explored as commodities and colonial as well as decolonial devices by significant and diverse feminist, art-historical, and anthropological voices—from Germaine Greer to herman de vries—bringing new perspectives through photo-essays, fiction, performance, and interventions in ecological, film, and translation archives. Reflecting on experimental ecology—the undiscovered, underestimated, and undesired non-European flora and fauna—it challenges perception and inspires potentialities to bring new understandings of the undergrowth of the Kew Gardens botany collection.
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January 2018
January 2018
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Landscape Theory
Landscape Theory
