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The forced polarity between form and function in considerations of architecture - opposing art to social interests, ethics to poetic expression - obscures the deep connections between ethical and poetical values in architectural tradition. Architecture has been, and must continue to be, writes Alberto Pérez-Gómez, built upon love. Modernity has rightly rejected past(...)
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The forced polarity between form and function in considerations of architecture - opposing art to social interests, ethics to poetic expression - obscures the deep connections between ethical and poetical values in architectural tradition. Architecture has been, and must continue to be, writes Alberto Pérez-Gómez, built upon love. Modernity has rightly rejected past(...)
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Architectural Theory
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January 2006, Cambridge, Mass.
January 2006, Cambridge, Mass.
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Built upon love : architectural longing after ethics and aesthetics
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The forced polarity between form and function in considerations of architecture - opposing art to social interests, ethics to poetic expression - obscures the deep connections between ethical and poetical values in architectural tradition. Architecture has been, and must continue to be, writes Alberto Pérez-Gómez, built upon love. Modernity has rightly rejected past architectural excesses, but, Pérez-Gómez argues, the materialistic and technological alternatives it proposes do not answer satisfactorily the complex desire that defines humanity. True architecture is concerned with far more than fashionable form, affordable homes, and sustainable development; it responds to a desire for an eloquent place to dwell- one that lovingly provides a sense of order resonant with our dreams. In "Built upon love" Pérez-Gómez uncovers the relationship between love and architecture in order to find the points of contact between poetics and ethics - between the architect's wish to design a beautiful world and architecture's imperative to provide a better place for society. Eros, as first imagined by the early lyric poets of classical Greece, is the invisible force at the root of our capacity to create and comprehend the poetic image. Pérez-Gómez examines the nature of architectural form in the light of eros, seduction, and the tradition of the poetic image in Western architecture. He charts the ethical dimension of architecture, tracing the connections between philia - the love of friends that entails mutual responsibility among equals - and architectural program. He explores the position of architecture at the limits of language and discusses the analogical language of philia in modernist architectural theory. Finally, he uncovers connections between ethics and poetics, describing a contemporary practice of architecture under the sign of love, incorporating both eros and philia.
Built upon love : architectural longing after ethics and aesthetics
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The forced polarity between form and function in considerations of architecture - opposing art to social interests, ethics to poetic expression - obscures the deep connections between ethical and poetical values in architectural tradition. Architecture has been, and must continue to be, writes Alberto Pérez-Gómez, built upon love. Modernity has rightly rejected past architectural excesses, but, Pérez-Gómez argues, the materialistic and technological alternatives it proposes do not answer satisfactorily the complex desire that defines humanity. True architecture is concerned with far more than fashionable form, affordable homes, and sustainable development; it responds to a desire for an eloquent place to dwell- one that lovingly provides a sense of order resonant with our dreams. In "Built upon love" Pérez-Gómez uncovers the relationship between love and architecture in order to find the points of contact between poetics and ethics - between the architect's wish to design a beautiful world and architecture's imperative to provide a better place for society. Eros, as first imagined by the early lyric poets of classical Greece, is the invisible force at the root of our capacity to create and comprehend the poetic image. Pérez-Gómez examines the nature of architectural form in the light of eros, seduction, and the tradition of the poetic image in Western architecture. He charts the ethical dimension of architecture, tracing the connections between philia - the love of friends that entails mutual responsibility among equals - and architectural program. He explores the position of architecture at the limits of language and discusses the analogical language of philia in modernist architectural theory. Finally, he uncovers connections between ethics and poetics, describing a contemporary practice of architecture under the sign of love, incorporating both eros and philia.
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January 2006, Cambridge, Mass.
January 2006, Cambridge, Mass.
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Members of the Frankfurt School have had an enormous effect on Western thought, beginning soon after Max Horkheimer became the director of the Institute for Social Research at the University of Frankfurt am Main in 1930. Also known as the Horkheimer Circle, the group included such eminent intellectuals as Theodor Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, Erich Fromm, Leo Lowenthal, and(...)
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Members of the Frankfurt School have had an enormous effect on Western thought, beginning soon after Max Horkheimer became the director of the Institute for Social Research at the University of Frankfurt am Main in 1930. Also known as the Horkheimer Circle, the group included such eminent intellectuals as Theodor Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, Erich Fromm, Leo Lowenthal, and(...)
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The Frankfurt school in exile
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Members of the Frankfurt School have had an enormous effect on Western thought, beginning soon after Max Horkheimer became the director of the Institute for Social Research at the University of Frankfurt am Main in 1930. Also known as the Horkheimer Circle, the group included such eminent intellectuals as Theodor Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, Erich Fromm, Leo Lowenthal, and Friedrich Pollock. Fleeing Nazi oppression, Horkheimer moved the Institute and many of its affiliated scholars to Columbia University in 1934, where it remained until 1950. Until now, the conventional portrayal of the Institute has held that its members found refuge by relocating to Columbia but that they had little contact with, or impact on, American intellectual life. With insight and clarity, Thomas Wheatland demonstrates that the standard account is wrong. Based on deep archival research in Germany and in the United States, and on interviews conducted with luminaries such as Daniel Bell, Bernadine Dohrn, Peter Gay, Todd Gitlin, Nathan Glazer, Tom Hayden, Robert Merton, and others, Wheatland skillfully traces the profound connections between the Horkheimer Circle’s members and the intellectual life of the era. Reassessing the group’s involvement with the American New Left in the 1960s, he argues that Herbert Marcuse’s role was misunderstood in shaping the radical student movement’s agenda. More broadly, he illustrates how the Circle influenced American social thought and made an even more dramatic impression on German postwar sociology. Although much has been written about the Frankfurt School, this is the first book to closely examine the relationship between its members and their American contemporaries. The Frankfurt School in Exile uncovers an important but neglected dimension of the history of the Frankfurt School and adds immeasurably to our understanding of the contributions made by its émigrés to postwar intellectual life.
The Frankfurt school in exile
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Members of the Frankfurt School have had an enormous effect on Western thought, beginning soon after Max Horkheimer became the director of the Institute for Social Research at the University of Frankfurt am Main in 1930. Also known as the Horkheimer Circle, the group included such eminent intellectuals as Theodor Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, Erich Fromm, Leo Lowenthal, and Friedrich Pollock. Fleeing Nazi oppression, Horkheimer moved the Institute and many of its affiliated scholars to Columbia University in 1934, where it remained until 1950. Until now, the conventional portrayal of the Institute has held that its members found refuge by relocating to Columbia but that they had little contact with, or impact on, American intellectual life. With insight and clarity, Thomas Wheatland demonstrates that the standard account is wrong. Based on deep archival research in Germany and in the United States, and on interviews conducted with luminaries such as Daniel Bell, Bernadine Dohrn, Peter Gay, Todd Gitlin, Nathan Glazer, Tom Hayden, Robert Merton, and others, Wheatland skillfully traces the profound connections between the Horkheimer Circle’s members and the intellectual life of the era. Reassessing the group’s involvement with the American New Left in the 1960s, he argues that Herbert Marcuse’s role was misunderstood in shaping the radical student movement’s agenda. More broadly, he illustrates how the Circle influenced American social thought and made an even more dramatic impression on German postwar sociology. Although much has been written about the Frankfurt School, this is the first book to closely examine the relationship between its members and their American contemporaries. The Frankfurt School in Exile uncovers an important but neglected dimension of the history of the Frankfurt School and adds immeasurably to our understanding of the contributions made by its émigrés to postwar intellectual life.
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April 2009
April 2009
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Critical Theory
Critical Theory
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Humans / Mike Mills
Humans / Mike Mills
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'Humans Manifesto. No plan survives first contact with the enemy. Sometimes being dumb is the only smart alternative. Shy people are secretly egoists. Nothing is real. Everything you see is a dream you project onto the world. Children live out their parents unconscious. The only animals that suffer from anxiety are the ones that associate with humans. I don’t(...)
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'Humans Manifesto. No plan survives first contact with the enemy. Sometimes being dumb is the only smart alternative. Shy people are secretly egoists. Nothing is real. Everything you see is a dream you project onto the world. Children live out their parents unconscious. The only animals that suffer from anxiety are the ones that associate with humans. I don’t(...)
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Humans / Mike Mills
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'Humans Manifesto. No plan survives first contact with the enemy. Sometimes being dumb is the only smart alternative. Shy people are secretly egoists. Nothing is real. Everything you see is a dream you project onto the world. Children live out their parents unconscious. The only animals that suffer from anxiety are the ones that associate with humans. I don’t trust people who are very articulate. The only way to be sane is to embrace your insanity. When you feel guilty about being sad, remember Walt Disney was a manic depressive. Everything I said could be totally wrong.' Mills’ intent is not to make a statement but to ask questions, to make people more curious: “I hope the things I make can grow on people over time. At first it is just a drawing of cracks, then later, after living with the design you have more personal associations with it, it means more things, it becomes more emotional.” Mike Mills is widely renown as a graphic artist and filmmaker. He has been defined as one of the creative visionaries of our times, responsible for album covers and music videos for bands such as the Beastie Boys, Sonic Youth, Beck and Air. Mills has directed various commercials, music videos, and short films and his first feature film, Thumbsucker, adapted by Mills from the homonymous novel by Walter Kirn will be released this fall. As a graphic designer, Mills designed the famous X-Girl logo and shirts graphics, Kim Gordon and Daisy Von Furth’s clothing company, as well as skateboard graphics for Supreme, Stereo and Subliminal. For Marc Jacobs he designed scarves and fabrics, and other fashion related graphics for Esprit and The Gap
Humans / Mike Mills
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'Humans Manifesto. No plan survives first contact with the enemy. Sometimes being dumb is the only smart alternative. Shy people are secretly egoists. Nothing is real. Everything you see is a dream you project onto the world. Children live out their parents unconscious. The only animals that suffer from anxiety are the ones that associate with humans. I don’t trust people who are very articulate. The only way to be sane is to embrace your insanity. When you feel guilty about being sad, remember Walt Disney was a manic depressive. Everything I said could be totally wrong.' Mills’ intent is not to make a statement but to ask questions, to make people more curious: “I hope the things I make can grow on people over time. At first it is just a drawing of cracks, then later, after living with the design you have more personal associations with it, it means more things, it becomes more emotional.” Mike Mills is widely renown as a graphic artist and filmmaker. He has been defined as one of the creative visionaries of our times, responsible for album covers and music videos for bands such as the Beastie Boys, Sonic Youth, Beck and Air. Mills has directed various commercials, music videos, and short films and his first feature film, Thumbsucker, adapted by Mills from the homonymous novel by Walter Kirn will be released this fall. As a graphic designer, Mills designed the famous X-Girl logo and shirts graphics, Kim Gordon and Daisy Von Furth’s clothing company, as well as skateboard graphics for Supreme, Stereo and Subliminal. For Marc Jacobs he designed scarves and fabrics, and other fashion related graphics for Esprit and The Gap
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January 2003, Zürich
January 2003, Zürich
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Graphic Design and Typography
Graphic Design and Typography
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Depuis plusieurs années, il ne se passe guère de mois sans qu’un étudiant ou une étudiante ne vienne à la Fabrique pour nous poser des questions sur l’édition indépendante, « engagée » comme ils disent. Ils sont en fin de licence ou en maîtrise, souvent dans la filière « métiers du livre » ou bien en science politique ou en histoire. Le projet de ce livre, c’est d’elles(...)
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Depuis plusieurs années, il ne se passe guère de mois sans qu’un étudiant ou une étudiante ne vienne à la Fabrique pour nous poser des questions sur l’édition indépendante, « engagée » comme ils disent. Ils sont en fin de licence ou en maîtrise, souvent dans la filière « métiers du livre » ou bien en science politique ou en histoire. Le projet de ce livre, c’est d’elles(...)
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Pour aboutir à un livre : la fabrique d’une maison d’édition
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Depuis plusieurs années, il ne se passe guère de mois sans qu’un étudiant ou une étudiante ne vienne à la Fabrique pour nous poser des questions sur l’édition indépendante, « engagée » comme ils disent. Ils sont en fin de licence ou en maîtrise, souvent dans la filière « métiers du livre » ou bien en science politique ou en histoire. Le projet de ce livre, c’est d’elles et eux qu’il vient, de leur intérêt, leur questionnement et leurs doutes.– Comment fonder une maison d’édition à partir de rien – combien d’argent faut-il, dans quel local, avec quel imprimeur, quel banquier, quel distributeur ?– Ensuite, comment s’y prendre pour ébaucher un catalogue, pour le développer, quelle relation avec quels auteurs, quel travail sur les textes ?– Sans négliger les questions matérielles : établir le budget des livres, tenir un plan de trésorerie, un budget annuel… L’éditeur doit marcher sur ses deux jambes, mener de front la partie intellectuelle et la partie matérielle du métier, qui se complètent et se renforcent mutuellement.– Les livres une fois imprimés, il faut les faire connaître – à la fois aux médias, aux libraires, dont le soutien est décisif, et pour finir aux lecteurs, en utilisant les moyens les plus traditionnels (contact direct et par les représentants) et les autres (site internet, newsletters, etc.). Et puis il faut les vendre ! Ce livre est mené sous forme d’un dialogue avec Ernest Moret, étudiant en philosophie qui connaît bien la Fabrique où il a été stagiaire. Cette forme a permis de mêler des notions d’ordre général et des idées et des anecdotes tirées de l’expérience personnelle d’Eric Hazan, dans l’édition d’art puis à la Fabrique. Sans compter les suggestions et critiques issues de l’équipe même de la Fabrique – car ce qui ressort clairement de ce livre, c’est que l’édition est avant tout un travail collectif.
Pour aboutir à un livre : la fabrique d’une maison d’édition
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Depuis plusieurs années, il ne se passe guère de mois sans qu’un étudiant ou une étudiante ne vienne à la Fabrique pour nous poser des questions sur l’édition indépendante, « engagée » comme ils disent. Ils sont en fin de licence ou en maîtrise, souvent dans la filière « métiers du livre » ou bien en science politique ou en histoire. Le projet de ce livre, c’est d’elles et eux qu’il vient, de leur intérêt, leur questionnement et leurs doutes.– Comment fonder une maison d’édition à partir de rien – combien d’argent faut-il, dans quel local, avec quel imprimeur, quel banquier, quel distributeur ?– Ensuite, comment s’y prendre pour ébaucher un catalogue, pour le développer, quelle relation avec quels auteurs, quel travail sur les textes ?– Sans négliger les questions matérielles : établir le budget des livres, tenir un plan de trésorerie, un budget annuel… L’éditeur doit marcher sur ses deux jambes, mener de front la partie intellectuelle et la partie matérielle du métier, qui se complètent et se renforcent mutuellement.– Les livres une fois imprimés, il faut les faire connaître – à la fois aux médias, aux libraires, dont le soutien est décisif, et pour finir aux lecteurs, en utilisant les moyens les plus traditionnels (contact direct et par les représentants) et les autres (site internet, newsletters, etc.). Et puis il faut les vendre ! Ce livre est mené sous forme d’un dialogue avec Ernest Moret, étudiant en philosophie qui connaît bien la Fabrique où il a été stagiaire. Cette forme a permis de mêler des notions d’ordre général et des idées et des anecdotes tirées de l’expérience personnelle d’Eric Hazan, dans l’édition d’art puis à la Fabrique. Sans compter les suggestions et critiques issues de l’équipe même de la Fabrique – car ce qui ressort clairement de ce livre, c’est que l’édition est avant tout un travail collectif.
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October 2016
October 2016
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Archive, library and the digital
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"Sowing Empire" identifies the cultivation and landscaping of colonies as one of the primary ways imperial nations justified their empires. Planting and transplanting, seeding and reshaping - the landscaping practices that emerged in the eighteenth century - are inextricable from the contested terrain of empire within which they operated. From the plantations of the(...)
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"Sowing Empire" identifies the cultivation and landscaping of colonies as one of the primary ways imperial nations justified their empires. Planting and transplanting, seeding and reshaping - the landscaping practices that emerged in the eighteenth century - are inextricable from the contested terrain of empire within which they operated. From the plantations of the(...)
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Sowing empire : landscape and colonization
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"Sowing Empire" identifies the cultivation and landscaping of colonies as one of the primary ways imperial nations justified their empires. Planting and transplanting, seeding and reshaping - the landscaping practices that emerged in the eighteenth century - are inextricable from the contested terrain of empire within which they operated. From the plantations of the “nabobs” to the island gardens of narrative fiction, from William Beckford’s estate at Fonthill to Marie Antoinette’s ornamented farm, "Sowing Empire" considers imperial relandscaping - its patriarchal organization, heterosexual reproduction, and slavery - and how it contributed to the construction of imperial power. At the same time, the book shows how these picturesque landscapes and sugar plantations contained within them the seeds of resistance - how, for instance, slave gardens and the Afro-Caribbean practice of Vodou threatened authority and created new possibilities for once again transforming the landscape. In an ambitious work of wide-ranging literary, visual, and historical allusion, Jill H. Casid examines how landscaping functioned in an imperial mode that defined and remade the “heartlands” of nations as well as the contact zones and colonial peripheries in the West and East Indies. Revealing the colonial landscape as far more than an agricultural system - as a means of regulating national, sexual, and gender identities - Casid also traces how the circulation of plants and hybridity influenced agriculture and landscaping on European soil and how colonial contacts materially shaped what we take as “European.” Utilizing a wide range of both visual and written sources - maps, literature, and travel writing - this book is interdisciplinary in its methodology and in its scope. Sowing Empire explores how postcolonial and queer studies can alter art history and visual studies and, in turn, what close attention to the visual may offer to both postcolonial theorizing and historically and materially based colonial cultural studies.
Sowing empire : landscape and colonization
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"Sowing Empire" identifies the cultivation and landscaping of colonies as one of the primary ways imperial nations justified their empires. Planting and transplanting, seeding and reshaping - the landscaping practices that emerged in the eighteenth century - are inextricable from the contested terrain of empire within which they operated. From the plantations of the “nabobs” to the island gardens of narrative fiction, from William Beckford’s estate at Fonthill to Marie Antoinette’s ornamented farm, "Sowing Empire" considers imperial relandscaping - its patriarchal organization, heterosexual reproduction, and slavery - and how it contributed to the construction of imperial power. At the same time, the book shows how these picturesque landscapes and sugar plantations contained within them the seeds of resistance - how, for instance, slave gardens and the Afro-Caribbean practice of Vodou threatened authority and created new possibilities for once again transforming the landscape. In an ambitious work of wide-ranging literary, visual, and historical allusion, Jill H. Casid examines how landscaping functioned in an imperial mode that defined and remade the “heartlands” of nations as well as the contact zones and colonial peripheries in the West and East Indies. Revealing the colonial landscape as far more than an agricultural system - as a means of regulating national, sexual, and gender identities - Casid also traces how the circulation of plants and hybridity influenced agriculture and landscaping on European soil and how colonial contacts materially shaped what we take as “European.” Utilizing a wide range of both visual and written sources - maps, literature, and travel writing - this book is interdisciplinary in its methodology and in its scope. Sowing Empire explores how postcolonial and queer studies can alter art history and visual studies and, in turn, what close attention to the visual may offer to both postcolonial theorizing and historically and materially based colonial cultural studies.
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January 2005, Minneapolis
January 2005, Minneapolis
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Landscape Theory
Landscape Theory
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Théorie du Bloom
Théorie du Bloom
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Lettre à l'éditeur, Contre toute apparence, il ne s'agit pas d'un livre, mais d'un virus éditorial. Le Livre, en tant qu'il se tenait face à son lecteur dans la même feinte complétude, dans la même suffisance close que le Sujet classique devant ses semblables, est, non moins que la figure classique de l'"Homme", une forme morte. La fin d'une institution(...)
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Lettre à l'éditeur, Contre toute apparence, il ne s'agit pas d'un livre, mais d'un virus éditorial. Le Livre, en tant qu'il se tenait face à son lecteur dans la même feinte complétude, dans la même suffisance close que le Sujet classique devant ses semblables, est, non moins que la figure classique de l'"Homme", une forme morte. La fin d'une institution(...)
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Théorie du Bloom
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Lettre à l'éditeur, Contre toute apparence, il ne s'agit pas d'un livre, mais d'un virus éditorial. Le Livre, en tant qu'il se tenait face à son lecteur dans la même feinte complétude, dans la même suffisance close que le Sujet classique devant ses semblables, est, non moins que la figure classique de l'"Homme", une forme morte. La fin d'une institution s'éprouve toujours dans la fin d'une illusion. Et c'est aussi bien le contenu de vérité en vertu duquel cette chose passée est déterminée comme mensonge qui apparaît alors. Que, par delà leur caractère de clôture, les grands livres n'aient jamais cessé d'être ceux qui parvenaient à créer une communauté; qu'en d'autres termes, le Livre ait toujours eu son existence hors de soi, voilà qui ne fut admis qu'à une date somme toute assez récente. Il paraît même que camperait encore quelque part sur la rive gauche de la Seine une certaine tribu, une communauté du Livre, qui trouve dans cette doctrine tous les éléments d'une hérésie. Tu es bien placé pour constater que la fin du Livre ne signifie pas sa brutale disparition de la circulation sociale, mais au contraire son absolue prolifération. Le foisonnemenrt quantitatif du Livre n'est qu'un aspect de sa présente vocation au néant, tout comme sa consommation balnéaire et le pilon, qui en sont deux autres. Dans cette phase, il y a donc certes encore des livres, mais ils ne sont plus là que pour abriter l'action corrosive de VIRUS éDITORIAUX. Le virus éditorial expose le principe d'incomplétude, l'insuffisance fondamentale qui est à la base de l'objet publié. Il se cale par les mentions les plus explicites, par les indications les plus grossièrementr pratiques -adresse, contact, etc-, dans la perspective de réaliser la communauté qui lui manque, la communauté encore virtuelle de ses lecteurs véritables. Il se place en un coup, le lecteur dans une position telle que son portrait ne soit plus tenable, telle du moins que son retrait ne peut plus être neutre. C'est dans ce sens-là que nous efflanquerons, aiguiserons, préciseront la Théorie du Bloom.
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Lettre à l'éditeur, Contre toute apparence, il ne s'agit pas d'un livre, mais d'un virus éditorial. Le Livre, en tant qu'il se tenait face à son lecteur dans la même feinte complétude, dans la même suffisance close que le Sujet classique devant ses semblables, est, non moins que la figure classique de l'"Homme", une forme morte. La fin d'une institution s'éprouve toujours dans la fin d'une illusion. Et c'est aussi bien le contenu de vérité en vertu duquel cette chose passée est déterminée comme mensonge qui apparaît alors. Que, par delà leur caractère de clôture, les grands livres n'aient jamais cessé d'être ceux qui parvenaient à créer une communauté; qu'en d'autres termes, le Livre ait toujours eu son existence hors de soi, voilà qui ne fut admis qu'à une date somme toute assez récente. Il paraît même que camperait encore quelque part sur la rive gauche de la Seine une certaine tribu, une communauté du Livre, qui trouve dans cette doctrine tous les éléments d'une hérésie. Tu es bien placé pour constater que la fin du Livre ne signifie pas sa brutale disparition de la circulation sociale, mais au contraire son absolue prolifération. Le foisonnemenrt quantitatif du Livre n'est qu'un aspect de sa présente vocation au néant, tout comme sa consommation balnéaire et le pilon, qui en sont deux autres. Dans cette phase, il y a donc certes encore des livres, mais ils ne sont plus là que pour abriter l'action corrosive de VIRUS éDITORIAUX. Le virus éditorial expose le principe d'incomplétude, l'insuffisance fondamentale qui est à la base de l'objet publié. Il se cale par les mentions les plus explicites, par les indications les plus grossièrementr pratiques -adresse, contact, etc-, dans la perspective de réaliser la communauté qui lui manque, la communauté encore virtuelle de ses lecteurs véritables. Il se place en un coup, le lecteur dans une position telle que son portrait ne soit plus tenable, telle du moins que son retrait ne peut plus être neutre. C'est dans ce sens-là que nous efflanquerons, aiguiserons, préciseront la Théorie du Bloom.
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January 2013
January 2013
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Critical Theory
Critical Theory
