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Fontaine Wallace, colonne Morris, station Vélib', lampadaires et autres bancs, le mobilier urbain qui nous est si familier et dont la visibilité diffuse ne fait presque jamais question, a pourtant une histoire, celle des villes, une physionomie, celle du regard et une philosophie, celle de la perception. Agnès Levitte les convoque dans une nouvelle approche. Sa(...)
Regard sur le design urbain: intrigues de piétons ordinaires
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Fontaine Wallace, colonne Morris, station Vélib', lampadaires et autres bancs, le mobilier urbain qui nous est si familier et dont la visibilité diffuse ne fait presque jamais question, a pourtant une histoire, celle des villes, une physionomie, celle du regard et une philosophie, celle de la perception. Agnès Levitte les convoque dans une nouvelle approche. Sa sensibilité de piétonne heureuse se promenant dans les rues le dispute à une théoricienne à la curiosité érudite sachant classer les concepts qui permettent de définir ce qui, au départ, relève de la flânerie. Ainsi ce livre donne à voir le quotidien urbain dans toutes les dimensions du savoir, du sensible et du plaisir.
Design Theory
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Frédéric Léonhardt propose une réflexion sur le devenir de la ville et ses enjeux en définissant 101 notions qui ont trait à la rénovation urbaine-politique.
Les 101 mots de la rénovation urbaine à l''usage de tous
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Frédéric Léonhardt propose une réflexion sur le devenir de la ville et ses enjeux en définissant 101 notions qui ont trait à la rénovation urbaine-politique.
Urban Theory
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Comment s’opère une révolution symbolique et comment réussit-elle à s’imposer ? À travers le cas exemplaire d’Édouard Manet, c’est à cette question que s’est confronté Pierre Bourdieu dès les années 1980 et à laquelle il a consacré les dernières années de son enseignement au Collège de France. Ce deuxième volume des cours inédits du sociologue, accompagnés d’un livre(...)
Manet, une révolution symbolique : cours au Collège de France, 1998-2000, suivi d'un manuscrit inachevé de Pierre et Marie-Claire Bourdieu
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Comment s’opère une révolution symbolique et comment réussit-elle à s’imposer ? À travers le cas exemplaire d’Édouard Manet, c’est à cette question que s’est confronté Pierre Bourdieu dès les années 1980 et à laquelle il a consacré les dernières années de son enseignement au Collège de France. Ce deuxième volume des cours inédits du sociologue, accompagnés d’un livre resté inachevé, marque ainsi l’aboutissement d’une réflexion centrale dans son oeuvre.
Art Theory
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Though scientific knowledge corresponds to only one of the many possible modes of existence Latour describes, an unrealistic vision of science has become the arbiter of reality and truth, seducing us into judging all values by a single standard. Latour implores us to recover other modes of existence in order to do justice to the plurality of truth conditions that Moderns(...)
An inquiry into modes of existence: an anthropology of the moderns
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Though scientific knowledge corresponds to only one of the many possible modes of existence Latour describes, an unrealistic vision of science has become the arbiter of reality and truth, seducing us into judging all values by a single standard. Latour implores us to recover other modes of existence in order to do justice to the plurality of truth conditions that Moderns have discovered throughout their history. This systematic effort of building a new philosophical anthropology presents a completely different view of what Moderns have been, and provides a new basis for opening diplomatic encounters with other societies at a time when all societies are coping with ecological crisis.
Critical Theory
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What makes the city of the future? How do you heal a divided city? In Radical Cities, Justin McGuirk travels across Latin America in search of the activist architects, maverick politicians and alternative communities already answering these questions. From Brazil to Venezuela, and from Mexico to Argentina, McGuirk discovers the people and ideas shaping the way cities are evolving.
Radical cities: across latin America in search of a new architecture
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What makes the city of the future? How do you heal a divided city? In Radical Cities, Justin McGuirk travels across Latin America in search of the activist architects, maverick politicians and alternative communities already answering these questions. From Brazil to Venezuela, and from Mexico to Argentina, McGuirk discovers the people and ideas shaping the way cities are evolving.
Urban Theory
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At the beginning of the twentieth century, two avant-garde movements emerged that sought to change the world: Expressionism and Constructivism. Utopia 1900-1940 documents the two schools and the work they produced. The leaders of these movements--Franz Marc, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, El Lissitzky, Vladimir Tatlin, Theo van Doesburg and others--believed they were standing at(...)
Utopia 1900-1940: visions on a new world
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At the beginning of the twentieth century, two avant-garde movements emerged that sought to change the world: Expressionism and Constructivism. Utopia 1900-1940 documents the two schools and the work they produced. The leaders of these movements--Franz Marc, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, El Lissitzky, Vladimir Tatlin, Theo van Doesburg and others--believed they were standing at the threshold of a new era, and they sought to shape its reality in a radical way.
Urban Theory
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This Very Short Introduction demonstrates that there are a number of common misunderstandings about what objectivity is, and explores the theoretical and practical problems of objectivity by assessing the basic questions raised by it. As well as considering the core philosophical issues, Gaukroger also deals with the way in which particular understandings of objectivity(...)
Objectivity: a very short introduction
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This Very Short Introduction demonstrates that there are a number of common misunderstandings about what objectivity is, and explores the theoretical and practical problems of objectivity by assessing the basic questions raised by it. As well as considering the core philosophical issues, Gaukroger also deals with the way in which particular understandings of objectivity impinge on social research, science, and art.
Critical Theory
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Compelling and accessible, this Very Short Introduction challenges the perception of borders as passive lines on a map, revealing them instead to be integral forces in the economic, social, political, and environmental processes that shape our lives. Highlighting the historical development and continued relevance of borders, Alexander C. Diener and Joshua Hagen offer a(...)
Borders: a very short introduction
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Compelling and accessible, this Very Short Introduction challenges the perception of borders as passive lines on a map, revealing them instead to be integral forces in the economic, social, political, and environmental processes that shape our lives. Highlighting the historical development and continued relevance of borders, Alexander C. Diener and Joshua Hagen offer a powerful counterpoint to the idea of an imminent borderless world, underscoring the impact borders have on a range of issues, such as economic development, inter- and intra-state conflict, global terrorism, migration, nationalism, international law, environmental sustainability, and natural resource management. Diener and Hagen demonstrate how and why borders have been, are currently, and will undoubtedly remain hot topics across the social sciences and in the global headlines for years to come.
Critical Theory
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"The avant-garde" is perhaps the most important and influential concept in the history of modern culture. For over a hundred years it has governed critical and historical assessment of the quality and significance of an artist or a work of art, in any medium-if these have been judged to be 'avant-garde', then they have been worthy of consideration. If not, then by and(...)
The Avant-Garde: a very short introduction
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"The avant-garde" is perhaps the most important and influential concept in the history of modern culture. For over a hundred years it has governed critical and historical assessment of the quality and significance of an artist or a work of art, in any medium-if these have been judged to be 'avant-garde', then they have been worthy of consideration. If not, then by and large they have not, and neither critics nor historians have paid them much attention. In short, modern art is and has been whatever the 'avant-garde' has made, or has said it is. In this Very Short Introduction, David Cottington explores the concept of the 'avant-garde' and examines its wider context through the development of western modernity, capitalist culture, and the global impact of both.
Critical Theory
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Beginning with questions about what thought is and what distinguishes it from other kinds of mental states, Tim Bayne goes on to examine various interpretations of thought from philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, and anthropology. By exploring the logical structures of thought and the relationship between thought and other mental phenomena, as well as the mechanisms(...)
Thought: a very short introduction
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Beginning with questions about what thought is and what distinguishes it from other kinds of mental states, Tim Bayne goes on to examine various interpretations of thought from philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, and anthropology. By exploring the logical structures of thought and the relationship between thought and other mental phenomena, as well as the mechanisms that make thought possible and the cultural variations that may exist in our thought processes, Bayne looks at what we know - and don't know - about our great capacity for thought.
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