Dessin / chantier
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La figure de l'architecte issue de la Renaissance repose sur la séparation du savoir et du faire, de l'artisanat et de l’art mais dans le même temps apparaissent les indices d’une rupture profonde inaugurée par le capitalisme naissant. Dépassant les catégories habituelles, "Dessin/chantier" cherche à analyser comment se produit la valeur dans un monde dominé par la(...)
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La figure de l'architecte issue de la Renaissance repose sur la séparation du savoir et du faire, de l'artisanat et de l’art mais dans le même temps apparaissent les indices d’une rupture profonde inaugurée par le capitalisme naissant. Dépassant les catégories habituelles, "Dessin/chantier" cherche à analyser comment se produit la valeur dans un monde dominé par la marchandise. Le propos tranche par son approche idéologique à l’opposé du libéralisme actuel. L’auteur est marqué par les luttes des années 60 au Brésil, par la violence faite aux ouvriers bâtissant Brasilia. Alors le voici parti à la recherche d’une autre pratique de l’architecture et de son édification, une pratique heureuse passant par un changement radical des rapports de production. Avant-propos de Vincent Michel.
Architectural Theory
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In Recollections of My Nonexistence, Rebecca Solnit describes her formation as a writer and as a feminist in 1980s San Francisco, in an atmosphere of gender violence on the street and throughout society and the exclusion of women from cultural arenas. She tells of being poor, hopeful, and adrift in the city that became her great teacher, and of the small apartment that,(...)
Recollections of my nonexistence: a memoir
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In Recollections of My Nonexistence, Rebecca Solnit describes her formation as a writer and as a feminist in 1980s San Francisco, in an atmosphere of gender violence on the street and throughout society and the exclusion of women from cultural arenas. She tells of being poor, hopeful, and adrift in the city that became her great teacher, and of the small apartment that, when she was nineteen, became the home in which she transformed herself. She explores the forces that liberated her as a person and as a writer–books themselves; the gay community that presented a new model of what else gender, family, and joy could mean; and her eventual arrival in the spacious landscapes and overlooked conflicts of the American West.
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Beyrouth dans ses ruines
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Comment, au-delà du symbole, les ruines deviennent un enjeu artistique. Depuis le début des années 1990 (fin de la guerre civile), Beyrouth connaît de profondes transformations. Instabilité politique, conflits armés, entreprises de reconstruction et spéculation foncière font de la ville un territoire en mutation permanente. Après avoir abordé la notion de patrimoine au(...)
Beyrouth dans ses ruines
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Comment, au-delà du symbole, les ruines deviennent un enjeu artistique. Depuis le début des années 1990 (fin de la guerre civile), Beyrouth connaît de profondes transformations. Instabilité politique, conflits armés, entreprises de reconstruction et spéculation foncière font de la ville un territoire en mutation permanente. Après avoir abordé la notion de patrimoine au Liban depuis 1840, l’autrice a identifié les formes d’une poétique des ruines – photographique, notamment - dont l’ambiguïté réside dans sa capacité à élever au rang de catégorie esthétique les traces d’une violence destructrice. Urbanistes, architectes, défenseurs du patrimoine, anciens propriétaires ou usagers de ces quartiers expriment attachement ou désaffection, faisant émerger des conceptions ordinaires ou savantes des objets urbains familiers comme des lieux symboliques de la ville.
Arch Southwest Asia & North Africa
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Our times of crumbling structures and decaying social bonds are often depicted as apocalyptic. This book takes the apocalypse as a metaphor to help us in the search for meaning in our everyday realities. Yes, the apocalypse is when social structures and institutions fall apart and we are terrified and suffocated by the debris raining down upon us. But 'apocalypse' also(...)
After the apocalypse: finding hope in organizing
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Our times of crumbling structures and decaying social bonds are often depicted as apocalyptic. This book takes the apocalypse as a metaphor to help us in the search for meaning in our everyday realities. Yes, the apocalypse is when social structures and institutions fall apart and we are terrified and suffocated by the debris raining down upon us. But 'apocalypse' also means 'revelation'. The very collapse reveals what dissipating institutions were constructed upon: where there ought to have been foundational common values, most often there is violence and raw power. Yet the values are there, too, and they can be found. This book is a guide to these values, showing how they can be of help to organizers and organizational dreamers.
Critical Theory
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Riots are extraordinary events that have been recurring with increasing frequency and occupy a highly controversial space in the political imagination. Despite their often negative portrayals, it is undeniable that riots have played a pivotal role in the confrontation between authority and dissent. Recently, with the deepening crises of capitalism, racial violence, and(...)
Nights of the dispossessed: riots unbound
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Riots are extraordinary events that have been recurring with increasing frequency and occupy a highly controversial space in the political imagination. Despite their often negative portrayals, it is undeniable that riots have played a pivotal role in the confrontation between authority and dissent. Recently, with the deepening crises of capitalism, racial violence, and communal tension, an 'age of riots' has powerfully begun. As master fictions of the sovereign nation-state implode, and the hegemonic silencing of the dispossessed reveals the cracks in governability, 'Nights of the Dispossessed: Riots Unbound' brings together artistic works, political texts, critical urban analyses, and research projects from across the world in an endeavor to 'sense,' chronicle, and think through recent riots and uprisings - evoking a phenomenology of the multitude and surplus population.
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Jerusalem : to the last path
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A la fin des années 1990, David Sauveur est un photojournaliste habitué aux chaos de l'histoire, reconnu internationalement. Lorsqu'il découvre Jérusalem, c'est pour d'autres raisons : non plus dénoncer la violence des hommes, mais sentir vibrer leur besoin de beauté. Pendant cinq ans, par une immersion méditative dans l'épaisseur de la cité millénaire, il recueille au(...)
Jerusalem : to the last path
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A la fin des années 1990, David Sauveur est un photojournaliste habitué aux chaos de l'histoire, reconnu internationalement. Lorsqu'il découvre Jérusalem, c'est pour d'autres raisons : non plus dénoncer la violence des hommes, mais sentir vibrer leur besoin de beauté. Pendant cinq ans, par une immersion méditative dans l'épaisseur de la cité millénaire, il recueille au Polaroid la matière de "To The Last Path" ('Vers le dernier chemin'). Naît une série de photographies subtiles, tout en lenteur et délicatesse, portées par une rare intelligence de la pluralité et des contradictions de la ville aux trois religions. Ce livre, accompagné d'un texte de l'historien Vincent Lemire, présente pour la première fois l'oeuvre de David Sauveur, dont une agression en août 2011 a interrompu la carrière.
Photography monographs
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Now in a new edition with updated statistics, texts and other materials, ''Handbook of tyranny'' portrays the routine cruelties of the 21st century through a series of detailed nonfictional graphic illustrations. None of these cruelties represent extraordinary violence?they reflect day-to-day implementation of laws and regulations around the globe. Every page of the book(...)
Theo Deutinger: Handbook of tyranny
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Now in a new edition with updated statistics, texts and other materials, ''Handbook of tyranny'' portrays the routine cruelties of the 21st century through a series of detailed nonfictional graphic illustrations. None of these cruelties represent extraordinary violence?they reflect day-to-day implementation of laws and regulations around the globe. Every page of the book questions our current world of walls and fences, police tactics and prison cells, crowd control and refugee camps. The dry and factual style of storytelling through technical drawings is the graphic equivalent of bureaucratic rigidity, just as the detailed illustrations mirror the repressive efforts of global authorities. The 21st century shows a general striving for an ever-more-regulated and protected society. ''Handbook of tyranny'' gives a profound insight into the relationship between political power, territoriality and systematic cruelties.
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Anselm Kiefer's Die Argonauten series was inspired by a casual dinner with friends. At the end of a meal, the artist noted the table's resemblance to a battlefield, and this quickly led him to delve into the Greek myth of Jason and the Argonauts. Despite the unlikely informality of the original prompt, Kiefer's choice to reinterpret the hero Jason's quest for the golden(...)
Anselm Kiefer: Die Argonauten
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Anselm Kiefer's Die Argonauten series was inspired by a casual dinner with friends. At the end of a meal, the artist noted the table's resemblance to a battlefield, and this quickly led him to delve into the Greek myth of Jason and the Argonauts. Despite the unlikely informality of the original prompt, Kiefer's choice to reinterpret the hero Jason's quest for the golden fleece continues central motifs in his work of violence, chauvinism and systems of power--derived, as ever, from the artist's assiduous study of poetry, mythology and cultural history. The project evolved into an installation composed of various totemic objects and weathered remnants, left over, so it appears, from Jason's quest. Die Argonauten reproduces this ambitious series for the first time, along with a text by the artist.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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In the 1970s, Manhattan’s west side waterfront was a forgotten zone of abandoned warehouses and piers. Though many saw only blight, the derelict neighborhood was alive with queer people forging new intimacies through cruising. Alongside the piers’ sexual and social worlds, artists produced work attesting to the radical transformations taking place in New York. In(...)
Cruising the dead river: David Wojnarowicz and New York's ruined waterfront
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In the 1970s, Manhattan’s west side waterfront was a forgotten zone of abandoned warehouses and piers. Though many saw only blight, the derelict neighborhood was alive with queer people forging new intimacies through cruising. Alongside the piers’ sexual and social worlds, artists produced work attesting to the radical transformations taking place in New York. In 'Cruising the Dead River', Fiona Anderson draws on Wojnarowicz’s work to explore the key role the abandoned landscape played in this explosion of queer culture. Anderson examines how the riverfront’s ruined buildings assumed a powerful erotic role and gave the area a distinct identity. By telling the story of the piers as gentrification swept New York and before the AIDS crisis, Anderson unearths the buried histories of violence, regeneration, and LGBTQ activism that developed in and around the cruising scene.
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(...)
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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