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As New York came to a halt with COVID, Michael Kimmelman composed an email to a group of architects, historians, writers, and friends, inviting them to take a walk. What began with a lighthearted trip to explore Broadway’s shuttered theater district and a stroll along Museum Mile when the museums were closed soon took on a much larger meaning and ambition. These intimate,(...)
The intimate city: Walking New York
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As New York came to a halt with COVID, Michael Kimmelman composed an email to a group of architects, historians, writers, and friends, inviting them to take a walk. What began with a lighthearted trip to explore Broadway’s shuttered theater district and a stroll along Museum Mile when the museums were closed soon took on a much larger meaning and ambition. These intimate, funny, richly detailed conversations between Kimmelman and his companions became anchors for millions of Times readers during the pandemic. The walks unpacked the essence of urban life and its social fabric—the history, plans, laws, feats of structural engineering, architectural highlights, and everyday realities that make up the city. Filled with stunning photographs documenting the city during the era of COVID, this book is the ultimate insider’s guide. A kaleidoscopic portrait of an enduring metropolis, it reveals why New York continues to inspire and to mean so much to those who call it home and to countless others.
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Depuis les années 60, différents courants se sont succédés pour explorer la ville, ses envers, ses limites, invitant à tout un imaginaire insolite, alternatif, brut. Dans ce livre, l'auteur cherche à analyser ces différents courants, à les comparer pour mieux situer sa propre pratique avec le groupe du Grand Lustucru établit dans l'agglomération de Clermont-Ferrand. (...)
Explorations urbaines : analyse et récits du Grang Lustucru
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Depuis les années 60, différents courants se sont succédés pour explorer la ville, ses envers, ses limites, invitant à tout un imaginaire insolite, alternatif, brut. Dans ce livre, l'auteur cherche à analyser ces différents courants, à les comparer pour mieux situer sa propre pratique avec le groupe du Grand Lustucru établit dans l'agglomération de Clermont-Ferrand. Le livre est divisé en deux grandes parties, la première est un essai, une analyse comparative qui emmène le lecteur de Londres à Rome, de Paris à Marseille en passant par New York puis Clermont-Ferrand. La deuxième partie du livre réunit des récits des explorations du Grand Lustucru. À la manière de l'exploration urbaine, le lecteur peut ici trouver différents passages et chemins de traverse pour se balader dans le livre et se laisser porter par l'expérience et la pratique de l'auteur.
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Philosophy for passengers
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While there are entire bookstore sections—and even entire bookstores—devoted to travel, there have been few books on the universal experience of being a passenger. With this book, philosopher Michael Marder fills the gap, offering a philosophical guide to passengerhood. He takes readers from ticketing and preboarding (preface and introduction) through a series of stops(...)
Philosophy for passengers
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While there are entire bookstore sections—and even entire bookstores—devoted to travel, there have been few books on the universal experience of being a passenger. With this book, philosopher Michael Marder fills the gap, offering a philosophical guide to passengerhood. He takes readers from ticketing and preboarding (preface and introduction) through a series of stops and detours (reflections on topics including time, space, existence, boredom, our sense of self, and our sense of the senses), to destination and disembarking (conclusion).
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What would be of contemporary culture if we did not recognize the impact of migration in cultural and socio-economic crossings? This book explores human migration in different times, contexts, and geographies surrounding the Aegean Sea. Through an assemblage of voices, lived experiences, historical documents, urban and rural dislocations, this publication examines(...)
(Forced) movement: Across the Aegean Archipelago
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What would be of contemporary culture if we did not recognize the impact of migration in cultural and socio-economic crossings? This book explores human migration in different times, contexts, and geographies surrounding the Aegean Sea. Through an assemblage of voices, lived experiences, historical documents, urban and rural dislocations, this publication examines responses to mobility of the ones on the move, and of the ones living in the destinations the former are heading to. It speaks of the sacrifices one is forced to make en route and at its antipode; the implications of voluntary migration to a place, steered by investment in real estate.
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"Zickzack" is the German word for "zigzag": hopping around, moving back and forth, never following a straight line, avoiding the monotony of one thing following another. This book is William Firebrace's zigzagging exploration of six places on the edges of the German-speaking world. Deploying essays, narration, conversations, descriptions, and lists, Firebrace celebrates(...)
Zickzack
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"Zickzack" is the German word for "zigzag": hopping around, moving back and forth, never following a straight line, avoiding the monotony of one thing following another. This book is William Firebrace's zigzagging exploration of six places on the edges of the German-speaking world. Deploying essays, narration, conversations, descriptions, and lists, Firebrace celebrates locations on defined and undefined borders, where cultures, languages, and histories mix. In his nonlinear wandering, he touches on ethnicity, topography, history, film, literature, myth, languages, and gastronomy.
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Marseille mix
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There are many Marseilles, or at least many versions of Marseille: seaside village, haven of gangsters, gateway to the East, city of immigrants and outcasts. It is by turns the dull bourgeois provincial town where nothing ever happens and the mysterious unknowable city of the Mediterranean. In this book, William Firebrace explores the many Marseilles, the invented and the(...)
Marseille mix
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There are many Marseilles, or at least many versions of Marseille: seaside village, haven of gangsters, gateway to the East, city of immigrants and outcasts. It is by turns the dull bourgeois provincial town where nothing ever happens and the mysterious unknowable city of the Mediterranean. In this book, William Firebrace explores the many Marseilles, the invented and the actual. Leading readers down narrow streets, through undulating terrain that seems at once, or serially, Italian, Greek, Levantine, and North African, Firebrace traces the history and culture of Marseille through landscapes, buildings, food, films, literature, and criminology.
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Memo for Nemo
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In this book, William Firebrace investigates human inhabitation of the undersea, both fictional and real. Beginning with Jules Verne's Captain Nemo—an undersea Renaissance man with a library of 12,000 volumes on his submarine—and proceeding through aquariums, undersea photography, artificial seas on land, nuclear-powered submarines, undersea film epics, giant squid, and(...)
Memo for Nemo
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In this book, William Firebrace investigates human inhabitation of the undersea, both fictional and real. Beginning with Jules Verne's Captain Nemo—an undersea Renaissance man with a library of 12,000 volumes on his submarine—and proceeding through aquariums, undersea photography, artificial seas on land, nuclear-powered submarines, undersea film epics, giant squid, and NASA satellites, Firebrace examines the undersea as a zone created by exploration and invention. Throughout, the history of undersea life is accompanied by an imagined undersea, envisioned by cultural figures ranging from Verne and Herman Melville to Orson Welles and Jimi Hendrix.
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Sur le chemin des glaces
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A l'automne 1974, le cinéaste allemand Werner Herzog apprend que son amie Lotte Eisner, critique et historienne du cinéma, est très malade. Depuis Munich, il décide de se rendre auprès d'elle à Paris, avec la certitude qu'elle survivra s'il voyage à pied. Tenu du 23 novembre au 14 décembre, ce journal de marche est le témoignage d'un homme qui nous fait partager tour(...)
Sur le chemin des glaces
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A l'automne 1974, le cinéaste allemand Werner Herzog apprend que son amie Lotte Eisner, critique et historienne du cinéma, est très malade. Depuis Munich, il décide de se rendre auprès d'elle à Paris, avec la certitude qu'elle survivra s'il voyage à pied. Tenu du 23 novembre au 14 décembre, ce journal de marche est le témoignage d'un homme qui nous fait partager tour à tour ses moments d'exaltation, d'épuisement, de plénitude.
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The Art of Walking: a field guide is one extensive survey of walking in contemporary art. Combining short texts on the subject with a variety of artists work, this publication provides a new way of looking at this everyday subject.
The art of walking: a field guide
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The Art of Walking: a field guide is one extensive survey of walking in contemporary art. Combining short texts on the subject with a variety of artists work, this publication provides a new way of looking at this everyday subject.
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Lost art of walking
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Nicholson finds people who walk only at night, or naked, or in the shape of a cross or a circle, or for thousands of miles at a time, in costume, for causes, or for no reason whatsoever. He examines the history and traditions of walking and its role as inspiration to artists, musicians, and writers like Bob Dylan, Charles Dickens, and Buster Keaton. In The Lost Art of(...)
Lost art of walking
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Nicholson finds people who walk only at night, or naked, or in the shape of a cross or a circle, or for thousands of miles at a time, in costume, for causes, or for no reason whatsoever. He examines the history and traditions of walking and its role as inspiration to artists, musicians, and writers like Bob Dylan, Charles Dickens, and Buster Keaton. In The Lost Art of Walking, he brings curiosity, imagination, and genuine insight to a subject that often strides, shuffles, struts, or lopes right by us.
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