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Kara Walker is among the most complex and prolific American artists of her generation. Over the past decade, she has gained international recognition for her room-sized tableaux, which depict historical narratives haunted by sexuality, violence and subjugation and are made using the paradoxically genteel eighteenth-century art of cut-paper silhouettes. Set in the(...)
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Kara Walker is among the most complex and prolific American artists of her generation. Over the past decade, she has gained international recognition for her room-sized tableaux, which depict historical narratives haunted by sexuality, violence and subjugation and are made using the paradoxically genteel eighteenth-century art of cut-paper silhouettes. Set in the(...)
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Kara Walker : my complement, my enevy, my oppressor, my love
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Kara Walker is among the most complex and prolific American artists of her generation. Over the past decade, she has gained international recognition for her room-sized tableaux, which depict historical narratives haunted by sexuality, violence and subjugation and are made using the paradoxically genteel eighteenth-century art of cut-paper silhouettes. Set in the antebellum American South, Walker's compositions play off of stereotypes to portray, often grotesquely, life on the plantation, where masters, mistresses and slave men, women and children enact a subverted version of the past in an attempt to reconfigure their status and representation. Over the years, the artist has used drawing, painting, colored-light projections, writing, shadow puppetry, and, most recently, film animation to narrate her tales of romance, sadism, oppression and liberation. Her scenarios thwart conventional readings of a cohesive national history and expose the collective, and ongoing, psychological injury caused by the tragic legacy of slavery. Deploying an acidic sense of humor, Walker examines the dialectics of pleasure and danger, guilt and fulfillment, desire and fear, race and class. This landmark publication, which is sure to win international design awards, accompanies Walker's first major American museum survey. It features critical essays by Philippe Vergne, Sander L. Gilman, Thomas McEvilley, Robert Storr and Kevin Young, as well as an illustrated lexicon of recurring themes and motifs in the artist's most influential installations by Yasmil Raymond, more than 200 full-color images, an extensive exhibition history and bibliography, and a 36-page insert by the artist.
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Kara Walker is among the most complex and prolific American artists of her generation. Over the past decade, she has gained international recognition for her room-sized tableaux, which depict historical narratives haunted by sexuality, violence and subjugation and are made using the paradoxically genteel eighteenth-century art of cut-paper silhouettes. Set in the antebellum American South, Walker's compositions play off of stereotypes to portray, often grotesquely, life on the plantation, where masters, mistresses and slave men, women and children enact a subverted version of the past in an attempt to reconfigure their status and representation. Over the years, the artist has used drawing, painting, colored-light projections, writing, shadow puppetry, and, most recently, film animation to narrate her tales of romance, sadism, oppression and liberation. Her scenarios thwart conventional readings of a cohesive national history and expose the collective, and ongoing, psychological injury caused by the tragic legacy of slavery. Deploying an acidic sense of humor, Walker examines the dialectics of pleasure and danger, guilt and fulfillment, desire and fear, race and class. This landmark publication, which is sure to win international design awards, accompanies Walker's first major American museum survey. It features critical essays by Philippe Vergne, Sander L. Gilman, Thomas McEvilley, Robert Storr and Kevin Young, as well as an illustrated lexicon of recurring themes and motifs in the artist's most influential installations by Yasmil Raymond, more than 200 full-color images, an extensive exhibition history and bibliography, and a 36-page insert by the artist.
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March 2007, Minneapolis
March 2007, Minneapolis
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Contemporary Art Monographs
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In "Enduring innocence", Keller Easterling tells the stories of outlaw "spatial products"- resorts, information technology campuses, retail chains, golf courses, ports, and other hybrid spaces that exist outside normal constituencies and jurisdictions-in difficult political situations around the world. These spaces-familiar commercial formulas of retail, business, and(...)
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In "Enduring innocence", Keller Easterling tells the stories of outlaw "spatial products"- resorts, information technology campuses, retail chains, golf courses, ports, and other hybrid spaces that exist outside normal constituencies and jurisdictions-in difficult political situations around the world. These spaces-familiar commercial formulas of retail, business, and(...)
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Architectural Theory
Architectural Theory
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January 1900, Cambridge, London
January 1900, Cambridge, London
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Enduring innocence : global architecture and its political masquerades
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In "Enduring innocence", Keller Easterling tells the stories of outlaw "spatial products"- resorts, information technology campuses, retail chains, golf courses, ports, and other hybrid spaces that exist outside normal constituencies and jurisdictions-in difficult political situations around the world. These spaces-familiar commercial formulas of retail, business, and trade-aspire to be worlds unto themselves, self-reflexive and innocent of politics. But as Easterling shows, in reality these enclaves can become political pawns and objects of contention. Jurisdictionally ambiguous, they are imbued with myths, desires, and symbolic capital. Their hilarious and dangerous masquerades often mix quite easily with the cunning of political platforms. Easterling argues that the study of such "real estate cocktails" provides vivid evidence of the market's weakness, resilience, or violence. "Enduring innocence" collects six stories of spatial products and their political predicaments: cruise ship tourism in North Korea; high-tech agricultural formations in Spain (which have reignited labor wars and piracy in the Mediterranean); hyperbolic forms of sovereignty in commercial and spiritual organizations shared by gurus and golf celebrities; automated global ports; microwave urbanism in South Asian IT enclaves; and a global industry of building demolition that suggests urban warfare. These regimes of nonnational sovereignty, writes Easterling, "move around the world like weather fronts"; she focuses not on their blending- their global connectivity-but on their segregation and the cultural collisions that ensue. "Enduring innocence" resists the dream of one globally legible world found in many architectural discourses on globalization. Instead, Easterling's consideration of these segregated worlds provides new tools for practitioners sensitive to the political composition of urban landscapes.
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In "Enduring innocence", Keller Easterling tells the stories of outlaw "spatial products"- resorts, information technology campuses, retail chains, golf courses, ports, and other hybrid spaces that exist outside normal constituencies and jurisdictions-in difficult political situations around the world. These spaces-familiar commercial formulas of retail, business, and trade-aspire to be worlds unto themselves, self-reflexive and innocent of politics. But as Easterling shows, in reality these enclaves can become political pawns and objects of contention. Jurisdictionally ambiguous, they are imbued with myths, desires, and symbolic capital. Their hilarious and dangerous masquerades often mix quite easily with the cunning of political platforms. Easterling argues that the study of such "real estate cocktails" provides vivid evidence of the market's weakness, resilience, or violence. "Enduring innocence" collects six stories of spatial products and their political predicaments: cruise ship tourism in North Korea; high-tech agricultural formations in Spain (which have reignited labor wars and piracy in the Mediterranean); hyperbolic forms of sovereignty in commercial and spiritual organizations shared by gurus and golf celebrities; automated global ports; microwave urbanism in South Asian IT enclaves; and a global industry of building demolition that suggests urban warfare. These regimes of nonnational sovereignty, writes Easterling, "move around the world like weather fronts"; she focuses not on their blending- their global connectivity-but on their segregation and the cultural collisions that ensue. "Enduring innocence" resists the dream of one globally legible world found in many architectural discourses on globalization. Instead, Easterling's consideration of these segregated worlds provides new tools for practitioners sensitive to the political composition of urban landscapes.
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January 1900, Cambridge, London
January 1900, Cambridge, London
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Le rouge est en Occident la première couleur que l’homme a maîtrisée, aussi bien en peinture qu’en teinture. C’est probablement pourquoi elle est longtemps restée la couleur «par excellence», la plus riche du point de vue matériel, social, artistique, onirique et symbolique. Admiré des Grecs et des Romains, le rouge est dans l’Antiquité symbole de puissance, de richesse(...)
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Le rouge est en Occident la première couleur que l’homme a maîtrisée, aussi bien en peinture qu’en teinture. C’est probablement pourquoi elle est longtemps restée la couleur «par excellence», la plus riche du point de vue matériel, social, artistique, onirique et symbolique. Admiré des Grecs et des Romains, le rouge est dans l’Antiquité symbole de puissance, de richesse(...)
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Rouge : histoire d'une couleur
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Le rouge est en Occident la première couleur que l’homme a maîtrisée, aussi bien en peinture qu’en teinture. C’est probablement pourquoi elle est longtemps restée la couleur «par excellence», la plus riche du point de vue matériel, social, artistique, onirique et symbolique. Admiré des Grecs et des Romains, le rouge est dans l’Antiquité symbole de puissance, de richesse et de majesté. Au Moyen Âge, il prend une forte dimension religieuse, évoquant aussi bien le sang du Christ que les flammes de l’enfer. Mais il est aussi, dans le monde profane, la couleur de l’amour, de la gloire et de la beauté, comme celle de l’orgueil, de la violence et de la luxure. Au XVIe siècle, les morales protestantes partent en guerre contre le rouge dans lequel elles voient une couleur indécente et immorale, liée aux vanités du monde et à la «théâtralité papiste». Dès lors, partout en Europe, dans la culture matérielle comme dans la vie quotidienne, le rouge est en recul. Ce déclin traverse toute l’époque moderne et contemporaine et va en s’accentuant au fil du temps. Toutefois, à partir de la Révolution française, le rouge prend une dimension idéologique et politique. C’est la couleur des forces progressistes ou subversives, puis des partis de gauche, rôle qu’il a conservé jusqu’à aujourd’hui. Soutenu par une abondante iconographie, cet ouvrage est le quatrième d’une série consacrée à l’histoire sociale et culturelle des couleurs en Europe. Rouge.Histoire d'une couleur fait suite à Bleu. Histoire d’une couleur (2000), Noir. Histoired’une couleur (2008) et à Vert. Histoire d’une couleur (2013).
Rouge : histoire d'une couleur
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Le rouge est en Occident la première couleur que l’homme a maîtrisée, aussi bien en peinture qu’en teinture. C’est probablement pourquoi elle est longtemps restée la couleur «par excellence», la plus riche du point de vue matériel, social, artistique, onirique et symbolique. Admiré des Grecs et des Romains, le rouge est dans l’Antiquité symbole de puissance, de richesse et de majesté. Au Moyen Âge, il prend une forte dimension religieuse, évoquant aussi bien le sang du Christ que les flammes de l’enfer. Mais il est aussi, dans le monde profane, la couleur de l’amour, de la gloire et de la beauté, comme celle de l’orgueil, de la violence et de la luxure. Au XVIe siècle, les morales protestantes partent en guerre contre le rouge dans lequel elles voient une couleur indécente et immorale, liée aux vanités du monde et à la «théâtralité papiste». Dès lors, partout en Europe, dans la culture matérielle comme dans la vie quotidienne, le rouge est en recul. Ce déclin traverse toute l’époque moderne et contemporaine et va en s’accentuant au fil du temps. Toutefois, à partir de la Révolution française, le rouge prend une dimension idéologique et politique. C’est la couleur des forces progressistes ou subversives, puis des partis de gauche, rôle qu’il a conservé jusqu’à aujourd’hui. Soutenu par une abondante iconographie, cet ouvrage est le quatrième d’une série consacrée à l’histoire sociale et culturelle des couleurs en Europe. Rouge.Histoire d'une couleur fait suite à Bleu. Histoire d’une couleur (2000), Noir. Histoired’une couleur (2008) et à Vert. Histoire d’une couleur (2013).
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October 2016
October 2016
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Colour Theory and Design
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On European ground
On European ground
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A profound visual meditation on the trauma that scars twentieth-century Europe, Alan Cohen's "On European Ground" considers the battlefields of World War I, the Nazi death camps, and the Berlin Wall, and records the distance between what we remember about these places and what we can (...)
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A profound visual meditation on the trauma that scars twentieth-century Europe, Alan Cohen's "On European Ground" considers the battlefields of World War I, the Nazi death camps, and the Berlin Wall, and records the distance between what we remember about these places and what we can (...)
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On European ground
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A profound visual meditation on the trauma that scars twentieth-century Europe, Alan Cohen's "On European Ground" considers the battlefields of World War I, the Nazi death camps, and the Berlin Wall, and records the distance between what we remember about these places and what we can still observe in them today. By walking these sites and photographing the very ground in which their history has dissolved, Cohen opens a space for reflection on their complex gravity and legacy. Cohen's images achieve a solemn beauty even as they engage history at its most topical. Pictures of trenches and bunkers at the battlefields of Somme and Verdun explore the tension between the violence of the past and the inscrutability of its remnants. Photographs from the grounds of Dachau and Auschwitz solicit a provocative dialogue between the ordinariness of these sites today and their haunting memory. They teach us, as the New Art Examiner notes, "that the living perceptual connection to the Holocaust is vanishing." Images of the Berlin Wall show only the footprint of the barricade that once separated two hostile ideologies. They record the physical erosion and looming disappearance of the Wall while capturing its reappearance as a memorialized abstraction. Accompanying the photographs in On European Ground are essays by Sander Gilman and Jonathan Bordo, as well as an interview with Cohen by critic Roberta Smith of the New York Times. The essays present both an introduction to and aesthetic analysis of Cohen's work, while the interview discusses the intractable problems of history and memory that his photographs so uniquely capture.
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A profound visual meditation on the trauma that scars twentieth-century Europe, Alan Cohen's "On European Ground" considers the battlefields of World War I, the Nazi death camps, and the Berlin Wall, and records the distance between what we remember about these places and what we can still observe in them today. By walking these sites and photographing the very ground in which their history has dissolved, Cohen opens a space for reflection on their complex gravity and legacy. Cohen's images achieve a solemn beauty even as they engage history at its most topical. Pictures of trenches and bunkers at the battlefields of Somme and Verdun explore the tension between the violence of the past and the inscrutability of its remnants. Photographs from the grounds of Dachau and Auschwitz solicit a provocative dialogue between the ordinariness of these sites today and their haunting memory. They teach us, as the New Art Examiner notes, "that the living perceptual connection to the Holocaust is vanishing." Images of the Berlin Wall show only the footprint of the barricade that once separated two hostile ideologies. They record the physical erosion and looming disappearance of the Wall while capturing its reappearance as a memorialized abstraction. Accompanying the photographs in On European Ground are essays by Sander Gilman and Jonathan Bordo, as well as an interview with Cohen by critic Roberta Smith of the New York Times. The essays present both an introduction to and aesthetic analysis of Cohen's work, while the interview discusses the intractable problems of history and memory that his photographs so uniquely capture.
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April 2001, Chicago
April 2001, Chicago
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Designers and pundits explore what it means to be a designer in a corporate-driven, over-branded, global consumer culture. The book tackles design responsibility with a scope and diversity previously unseen. Forty essays and interviews espouse viewpoints covering a wide range of social, professional, political, and cultural topics including: reality branding, game design(...)
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Designers and pundits explore what it means to be a designer in a corporate-driven, over-branded, global consumer culture. The book tackles design responsibility with a scope and diversity previously unseen. Forty essays and interviews espouse viewpoints covering a wide range of social, professional, political, and cultural topics including: reality branding, game design(...)
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Graphic Design and Typography
Graphic Design and Typography
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May 2003, New York
May 2003, New York
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Citizen designer : perspectives on design responsibility
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Designers and pundits explore what it means to be a designer in a corporate-driven, over-branded, global consumer culture. The book tackles design responsibility with a scope and diversity previously unseen. Forty essays and interviews espouse viewpoints covering a wide range of social, professional, political, and cultural topics including: reality branding, game design and school violence, socially responsible advertising and exploitation, and design as a force for improving the environment. Edited by two advocates of socially responsible design, Citizen Designer responds to the tough questions being asked by today’s designers: How can a designer effect social or political change? Can design be more than a service to clients? When does a designer have to take responsibility for a client’s actions? At what point must a designer take a stand? This book encourages designers and students of design to carefully research the clients they work with; to be alert about corporate, political, and social developments; and to design socially responsible products. With essays by: Hugh Aldersey-Williams, Julie Baugnet, Leslie Becker, Roy R. Behrens, Nancy Bernard, J.D. Biersdorfer, Anne Bush, Robbie Conal, Michael Dooley, Stuart Ewen, Thomas Frank, Ken Garland, Peter Hall, Mr. Keedy, Maud Lavin, Victor Margolin, Carolyn McCarron, Katherine McCoy, David Reinfurt, Chris Riley, Chase A. Rogers, Michael Schmidt, Judith Schwartz, Matt Soar, Gunnar Swanson, Susan S. Szenasy, Teal Triggs, Tucker Viemeister, David Vogler, and Cheryl Towler Weese. And interviews with: Fabrizio Gilardino, Milton Glaser, Kalle Lasn, Robert Menard, Don Norman, Mark Randall, David Sterling, Stanley Tigerman, and Shawn Wolfe.
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Designers and pundits explore what it means to be a designer in a corporate-driven, over-branded, global consumer culture. The book tackles design responsibility with a scope and diversity previously unseen. Forty essays and interviews espouse viewpoints covering a wide range of social, professional, political, and cultural topics including: reality branding, game design and school violence, socially responsible advertising and exploitation, and design as a force for improving the environment. Edited by two advocates of socially responsible design, Citizen Designer responds to the tough questions being asked by today’s designers: How can a designer effect social or political change? Can design be more than a service to clients? When does a designer have to take responsibility for a client’s actions? At what point must a designer take a stand? This book encourages designers and students of design to carefully research the clients they work with; to be alert about corporate, political, and social developments; and to design socially responsible products. With essays by: Hugh Aldersey-Williams, Julie Baugnet, Leslie Becker, Roy R. Behrens, Nancy Bernard, J.D. Biersdorfer, Anne Bush, Robbie Conal, Michael Dooley, Stuart Ewen, Thomas Frank, Ken Garland, Peter Hall, Mr. Keedy, Maud Lavin, Victor Margolin, Carolyn McCarron, Katherine McCoy, David Reinfurt, Chris Riley, Chase A. Rogers, Michael Schmidt, Judith Schwartz, Matt Soar, Gunnar Swanson, Susan S. Szenasy, Teal Triggs, Tucker Viemeister, David Vogler, and Cheryl Towler Weese. And interviews with: Fabrizio Gilardino, Milton Glaser, Kalle Lasn, Robert Menard, Don Norman, Mark Randall, David Sterling, Stanley Tigerman, and Shawn Wolfe.
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May 2003, New York
May 2003, New York
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Graphic Design and Typography
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Plus de huit personnes sur dix habitent en ville. Pour autant, la connaissent-elles ? Ne reste-t-elle pas synonyme d'idées reçues anonymat, violence, abondance côtoyant la grande pauvreté ? Certes elle est tout cela, mais aussi l'organisation humaine la plus aboutie et la plus complexe. Urbanistes, architectes, ingénieurs, sociologues, nombreuses sont les professions au(...)
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Plus de huit personnes sur dix habitent en ville. Pour autant, la connaissent-elles ? Ne reste-t-elle pas synonyme d'idées reçues anonymat, violence, abondance côtoyant la grande pauvreté ? Certes elle est tout cela, mais aussi l'organisation humaine la plus aboutie et la plus complexe. Urbanistes, architectes, ingénieurs, sociologues, nombreuses sont les professions au(...)
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Villes de papier : une anthologie de poétique urbaine
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Plus de huit personnes sur dix habitent en ville. Pour autant, la connaissent-elles ? Ne reste-t-elle pas synonyme d'idées reçues anonymat, violence, abondance côtoyant la grande pauvreté ? Certes elle est tout cela, mais aussi l'organisation humaine la plus aboutie et la plus complexe. Urbanistes, architectes, ingénieurs, sociologues, nombreuses sont les professions au chevet de la ville, priorité publique depuis plus de vingt-cinq ans. Ont-elles pour autant le monopole des discours pertinents sur la ville ? "je sais gré à Denis Caniaux de nous rappeler qu'une ville [...] se parcourt, qu'elle se découvre, qu'elle est pour nous une source de joies et de peines [...] De là de longs paragraphes consacrés à la ville rêvée, à la ville arpentée, à la ville explorée" : dans la préface qu'il donne à Villes de papier, Pierre Sansot insiste sur le fait que romanciers et poètes se révèlent souvent de remarquables analystes urbains et que leurs textes éclairent d'un jour original les questions sur la ville. La "poétique urbaine" ainsi ne pourrait-elle pas enrichir la "politique de la ville" ? Cette anthologie, plus de 50 auteurs du monde entier, plus de 130 extraits d'œuvres, du XIXe siècle à nos jours, nous invite à réenchanter notre vision de la ville, pour mieux la changer au quotidien. Elle nous propose une déambulation littéraire dans une, comédie urbaine, de Baudelaire à Guillevic, de Hugo à Gracq, de Vargas Llosa à Calvino, de Fernand Léger à Chamoiseau ou Valabrègue, en passant par Auster, Fallet, Dürrenmatt ou Kadaré. Un véritable ouvrage de référence pour tous ceux qui s'intéressent de près ou de loin à la ville.
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Plus de huit personnes sur dix habitent en ville. Pour autant, la connaissent-elles ? Ne reste-t-elle pas synonyme d'idées reçues anonymat, violence, abondance côtoyant la grande pauvreté ? Certes elle est tout cela, mais aussi l'organisation humaine la plus aboutie et la plus complexe. Urbanistes, architectes, ingénieurs, sociologues, nombreuses sont les professions au chevet de la ville, priorité publique depuis plus de vingt-cinq ans. Ont-elles pour autant le monopole des discours pertinents sur la ville ? "je sais gré à Denis Caniaux de nous rappeler qu'une ville [...] se parcourt, qu'elle se découvre, qu'elle est pour nous une source de joies et de peines [...] De là de longs paragraphes consacrés à la ville rêvée, à la ville arpentée, à la ville explorée" : dans la préface qu'il donne à Villes de papier, Pierre Sansot insiste sur le fait que romanciers et poètes se révèlent souvent de remarquables analystes urbains et que leurs textes éclairent d'un jour original les questions sur la ville. La "poétique urbaine" ainsi ne pourrait-elle pas enrichir la "politique de la ville" ? Cette anthologie, plus de 50 auteurs du monde entier, plus de 130 extraits d'œuvres, du XIXe siècle à nos jours, nous invite à réenchanter notre vision de la ville, pour mieux la changer au quotidien. Elle nous propose une déambulation littéraire dans une, comédie urbaine, de Baudelaire à Guillevic, de Hugo à Gracq, de Vargas Llosa à Calvino, de Fernand Léger à Chamoiseau ou Valabrègue, en passant par Auster, Fallet, Dürrenmatt ou Kadaré. Un véritable ouvrage de référence pour tous ceux qui s'intéressent de près ou de loin à la ville.
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March 2004, Bordeaux
March 2004, Bordeaux
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Urban Theory
Urban Theory
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With this issue, the funambulist offers a critique of their own framework of knowledge production. The concept of “Global South” has been turned into a handy word to lazily designate two-thirds of the world’s earthly area and 90% of its population, thus flattening the millions of specificities that characterize this grouping. It also often embodies an entity that only(...)
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With this issue, the funambulist offers a critique of their own framework of knowledge production. The concept of “Global South” has been turned into a handy word to lazily designate two-thirds of the world’s earthly area and 90% of its population, thus flattening the millions of specificities that characterize this grouping. It also often embodies an entity that only(...)
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The Funambulist 66: Beyond the global South
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With this issue, the funambulist offers a critique of their own framework of knowledge production. The concept of “Global South” has been turned into a handy word to lazily designate two-thirds of the world’s earthly area and 90% of its population, thus flattening the millions of specificities that characterize this grouping. It also often embodies an entity that only exists dependent on its alter ego, the Global North. As such, it denies any form of agency to the peoples designated as “the South” independently from their relationship to the “North,” as we examine in the case of the war in the eastern Congo (Josaphat Musamba). The South/North binary also designates borders as lines (rather than as regimes operating on both sides of these lines) and essentializes the difference between sides. Can Blackness and Indigeneity in Abya Yala be read without a fundamental split at the settler colonial line that separates North and Central-South Americas (Ashley Ngozi Agbasoga)? Can 20th century Korea’s history show us that the line that currently separates the north (usually presented as part of the Global South) and the south (usually presented as part of the Global North) particularly illustrates the North/South framework’s lack of complexity (Lina Eunji Chang and Andrei-Sergei Kim)? What kind of colonial violence the Non-Aligned Movement invisibilizes in West Papua (Quito Swan), in Kashmir (Choakkeladd) or Western Sahara (Buhari Lehbib) and, in contrast, what kind of solidarities it allowed from Yugoslavia (Dubravka Sekulic and Sanja Horvatincic)? And, crucially, how can we honor the complexity of politics by being able to hold two contradictory truths together as Micol Meghnagi reminds us in the context of Gaddafi’s Libya and Pan-Arabism.
The Funambulist 66: Beyond the global South
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With this issue, the funambulist offers a critique of their own framework of knowledge production. The concept of “Global South” has been turned into a handy word to lazily designate two-thirds of the world’s earthly area and 90% of its population, thus flattening the millions of specificities that characterize this grouping. It also often embodies an entity that only exists dependent on its alter ego, the Global North. As such, it denies any form of agency to the peoples designated as “the South” independently from their relationship to the “North,” as we examine in the case of the war in the eastern Congo (Josaphat Musamba). The South/North binary also designates borders as lines (rather than as regimes operating on both sides of these lines) and essentializes the difference between sides. Can Blackness and Indigeneity in Abya Yala be read without a fundamental split at the settler colonial line that separates North and Central-South Americas (Ashley Ngozi Agbasoga)? Can 20th century Korea’s history show us that the line that currently separates the north (usually presented as part of the Global South) and the south (usually presented as part of the Global North) particularly illustrates the North/South framework’s lack of complexity (Lina Eunji Chang and Andrei-Sergei Kim)? What kind of colonial violence the Non-Aligned Movement invisibilizes in West Papua (Quito Swan), in Kashmir (Choakkeladd) or Western Sahara (Buhari Lehbib) and, in contrast, what kind of solidarities it allowed from Yugoslavia (Dubravka Sekulic and Sanja Horvatincic)? And, crucially, how can we honor the complexity of politics by being able to hold two contradictory truths together as Micol Meghnagi reminds us in the context of Gaddafi’s Libya and Pan-Arabism.
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July 2026
July 2026
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A billion people, roughly half of all city dwellers in the developing world, live in squatter settlements. The most famous of these settlements are the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, which have existed for more than half a century and continue to outpace the rest of the city in growth. Janice Perlman's "The Myth of Marginality" was the first in-depth account of life in the(...)
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A billion people, roughly half of all city dwellers in the developing world, live in squatter settlements. The most famous of these settlements are the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, which have existed for more than half a century and continue to outpace the rest of the city in growth. Janice Perlman's "The Myth of Marginality" was the first in-depth account of life in the(...)
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Favela : four decades of living on the edge in Rio de Janeiro
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A billion people, roughly half of all city dwellers in the developing world, live in squatter settlements. The most famous of these settlements are the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, which have existed for more than half a century and continue to outpace the rest of the city in growth. Janice Perlman's "The Myth of Marginality" was the first in-depth account of life in the favelas, and it is considered one of the most important books in global urban studies in the last 30 years. Now, in "Favela", Perlman carries that story forward to the present. Re-interviewing many longtime favela residents whom she had first met in 1969 - as well as their children and grandchildren - Perlman offers the only long-term perspective available on the favelados as they struggle for a better life. Perlman discovers that much has changed in three decades, but while educational levels have risen, democracy has replaced dictatorship, and material conditions have improved, many residents feel marginalized more than ever. The greatest change is the explosion of drug and arms trade and the high incidence of fatal violence that has resulted. Almost one in five people report that a member of their family has been a victim of homicide. Yet the greatest challenge of all is job creation - decent work for decent pay. If unemployment and under-paid employment are not addressed, she argues, all other efforts - from housing to policing to community development - will fail to resolve the fundamental issues. A revealing study of the giant slums of Rio de Janeiro and of the vibrant communities of migrants who have risked everything to come to the city to provide more opportunities for their children, this book yields insights that apply to the entire global South, from Mexico City to Cairo, and from Mumbai to Lagos. Favela offers a long-term look at one of the great challenges facing the modern world - perhaps the major challenge of the twenty-first century.
Favela : four decades of living on the edge in Rio de Janeiro
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A billion people, roughly half of all city dwellers in the developing world, live in squatter settlements. The most famous of these settlements are the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, which have existed for more than half a century and continue to outpace the rest of the city in growth. Janice Perlman's "The Myth of Marginality" was the first in-depth account of life in the favelas, and it is considered one of the most important books in global urban studies in the last 30 years. Now, in "Favela", Perlman carries that story forward to the present. Re-interviewing many longtime favela residents whom she had first met in 1969 - as well as their children and grandchildren - Perlman offers the only long-term perspective available on the favelados as they struggle for a better life. Perlman discovers that much has changed in three decades, but while educational levels have risen, democracy has replaced dictatorship, and material conditions have improved, many residents feel marginalized more than ever. The greatest change is the explosion of drug and arms trade and the high incidence of fatal violence that has resulted. Almost one in five people report that a member of their family has been a victim of homicide. Yet the greatest challenge of all is job creation - decent work for decent pay. If unemployment and under-paid employment are not addressed, she argues, all other efforts - from housing to policing to community development - will fail to resolve the fundamental issues. A revealing study of the giant slums of Rio de Janeiro and of the vibrant communities of migrants who have risked everything to come to the city to provide more opportunities for their children, this book yields insights that apply to the entire global South, from Mexico City to Cairo, and from Mumbai to Lagos. Favela offers a long-term look at one of the great challenges facing the modern world - perhaps the major challenge of the twenty-first century.
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Urban Theory
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Although the seemingly apocalyptic scale of the World Trade Center disaster continues to haunt people across the globe, it is only the most recent example of a city tragically wounded. Cities are, in fact, perpetually caught up in cycles of degeneration and renewal. As with the WTC, from time to time these cycles are severely ruptured by a sudden, unpredictable event.(...)
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Although the seemingly apocalyptic scale of the World Trade Center disaster continues to haunt people across the globe, it is only the most recent example of a city tragically wounded. Cities are, in fact, perpetually caught up in cycles of degeneration and renewal. As with the WTC, from time to time these cycles are severely ruptured by a sudden, unpredictable event.(...)
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Wounded cities : destruction and reconstruction in a globalized world
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Although the seemingly apocalyptic scale of the World Trade Center disaster continues to haunt people across the globe, it is only the most recent example of a city tragically wounded. Cities are, in fact, perpetually caught up in cycles of degeneration and renewal. As with the WTC, from time to time these cycles are severely ruptured by a sudden, unpredictable event. In the wake of recent terrorist activities, this timely book explores how urban populations are affected by "wounds" inflicted through violence, civil wars, overbuilding, drug trafficking, and the collapse of infrastructures, as well as "natural" disasters such as earthquakes. Mexico City, New York, Beirut, Belfast, Bangkok and Baghdad are just a few examples of cities riddled with problems that undermine, on a daily basis, the quality of urban life. What does it mean for urban dwellers when the infrastructure of a city collapses – transport, communication grids, heat, light, roads, water, and sanitation? What are the effects of foreign investment and huge construction projects on urban populations and how does this change the "look" and character of a city? How does drug trafficking intersect with class, race, and gender, and what impact does it have on vulnerable urban communities? How do political corruption and mafia networks distort the built environment? Drawing on in-depth case studies from across the globe, this book answers these intriguing questions through its rigorous consideration of changing global and national contexts, social movements, and corrosive urban events. Adopting a "grass roots up" approach, it places emphasis on people’s experiences of uneven development and inequality, their engagement with memory in the face of continual change, and the relevance of political activism to bettering their lives. It is especially attentive to the historical interaction of particular cities with wider political and economic forces, as these interactions have shaped local governance over time. Imagining each city as a "body politic", the authors consider its capacity both to mediate local conflict and to broach the healing of wounds.
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Although the seemingly apocalyptic scale of the World Trade Center disaster continues to haunt people across the globe, it is only the most recent example of a city tragically wounded. Cities are, in fact, perpetually caught up in cycles of degeneration and renewal. As with the WTC, from time to time these cycles are severely ruptured by a sudden, unpredictable event. In the wake of recent terrorist activities, this timely book explores how urban populations are affected by "wounds" inflicted through violence, civil wars, overbuilding, drug trafficking, and the collapse of infrastructures, as well as "natural" disasters such as earthquakes. Mexico City, New York, Beirut, Belfast, Bangkok and Baghdad are just a few examples of cities riddled with problems that undermine, on a daily basis, the quality of urban life. What does it mean for urban dwellers when the infrastructure of a city collapses – transport, communication grids, heat, light, roads, water, and sanitation? What are the effects of foreign investment and huge construction projects on urban populations and how does this change the "look" and character of a city? How does drug trafficking intersect with class, race, and gender, and what impact does it have on vulnerable urban communities? How do political corruption and mafia networks distort the built environment? Drawing on in-depth case studies from across the globe, this book answers these intriguing questions through its rigorous consideration of changing global and national contexts, social movements, and corrosive urban events. Adopting a "grass roots up" approach, it places emphasis on people’s experiences of uneven development and inequality, their engagement with memory in the face of continual change, and the relevance of political activism to bettering their lives. It is especially attentive to the historical interaction of particular cities with wider political and economic forces, as these interactions have shaped local governance over time. Imagining each city as a "body politic", the authors consider its capacity both to mediate local conflict and to broach the healing of wounds.
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August 2003, Oxford
August 2003, Oxford
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Dans ce numéro, le Funambuliste propose une critique de leur propre cadre de production des connaissances. Ils ont constaté à quel point le concept de « Sud global » s’est transformé en un terme commode permettant de désigner sans plus de réflexion les deux tiers de la superficie terrestre et 90 % de la population mondiale, effaçant ainsi les millions de spécificités qui(...)
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Dans ce numéro, le Funambuliste propose une critique de leur propre cadre de production des connaissances. Ils ont constaté à quel point le concept de « Sud global » s’est transformé en un terme commode permettant de désigner sans plus de réflexion les deux tiers de la superficie terrestre et 90 % de la population mondiale, effaçant ainsi les millions de spécificités qui(...)
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The Funambulist 66 : Au-delà du sud global
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Dans ce numéro, le Funambuliste propose une critique de leur propre cadre de production des connaissances. Ils ont constaté à quel point le concept de « Sud global » s’est transformé en un terme commode permettant de désigner sans plus de réflexion les deux tiers de la superficie terrestre et 90 % de la population mondiale, effaçant ainsi les millions de spécificités qui caractérisent ce regroupement. Il incarne également souvent une entité qui n’existe qu’en dépendance de son alter ego, le Nord global. À ce titre, il nie toute forme d’agentivité aux peuples désignés comme « le Sud » indépendamment de leur relation au « Nord », comme nous l’examinons dans le cas de la guerre dans l’est du Congo (Josaphat Musamba). Le binarisme Sud/Nord désigne également les frontières comme des lignes (plutôt que comme des régimes opérant de part et d’autre de ces lignes) et essentialise la différence entre les deux côtés. Peut-on appréhender la noirceur et l’autochtonie en Abya Yala sans une scission fondamentale au niveau de la ligne coloniale qui sépare l’Amérique du Nord de l’Amérique centrale et du Sud (Ashley Ngozi Agbasoga) ? L’histoire de la Corée du 20e siècle peut-elle nous montrer que la ligne qui sépare actuellement le Nord (généralement présenté comme faisant partie du Sud global) et le Sud (généralement présenté comme faisant partie du Nord global) illustre particulièrement le manque de complexité du cadre Nord/Sud (Lina Eunji Chang et Andrei-Sergei Kim) ? Quel type de violence coloniale le Mouvement des pays non alignés rend-il invisible en Papouasie occidentale (Quito Swan), au Cachemire (Choakkeladd) ou au Sahara occidental (Buhari Lehbib) et, à l’inverse, quel type de solidarités a-t-il permis depuis la Yougoslavie (Dubravka Sekulic et Sanja Horvatincic) ? Et, surtout, comment pouvons-nous rendre justice à la complexité de nos politiques en étant capables de concilier deux vérités contradictoires, comme nous le rappelle Micol Meghnagi dans le contexte de la Libye de Kadhafi et du panarabisme ? Quant à l’illustration de couverture, il s’agit d’une peinture de l’artiste parisienne guyanaise Johanna Mirabel.
The Funambulist 66 : Au-delà du sud global
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Dans ce numéro, le Funambuliste propose une critique de leur propre cadre de production des connaissances. Ils ont constaté à quel point le concept de « Sud global » s’est transformé en un terme commode permettant de désigner sans plus de réflexion les deux tiers de la superficie terrestre et 90 % de la population mondiale, effaçant ainsi les millions de spécificités qui caractérisent ce regroupement. Il incarne également souvent une entité qui n’existe qu’en dépendance de son alter ego, le Nord global. À ce titre, il nie toute forme d’agentivité aux peuples désignés comme « le Sud » indépendamment de leur relation au « Nord », comme nous l’examinons dans le cas de la guerre dans l’est du Congo (Josaphat Musamba). Le binarisme Sud/Nord désigne également les frontières comme des lignes (plutôt que comme des régimes opérant de part et d’autre de ces lignes) et essentialise la différence entre les deux côtés. Peut-on appréhender la noirceur et l’autochtonie en Abya Yala sans une scission fondamentale au niveau de la ligne coloniale qui sépare l’Amérique du Nord de l’Amérique centrale et du Sud (Ashley Ngozi Agbasoga) ? L’histoire de la Corée du 20e siècle peut-elle nous montrer que la ligne qui sépare actuellement le Nord (généralement présenté comme faisant partie du Sud global) et le Sud (généralement présenté comme faisant partie du Nord global) illustre particulièrement le manque de complexité du cadre Nord/Sud (Lina Eunji Chang et Andrei-Sergei Kim) ? Quel type de violence coloniale le Mouvement des pays non alignés rend-il invisible en Papouasie occidentale (Quito Swan), au Cachemire (Choakkeladd) ou au Sahara occidental (Buhari Lehbib) et, à l’inverse, quel type de solidarités a-t-il permis depuis la Yougoslavie (Dubravka Sekulic et Sanja Horvatincic) ? Et, surtout, comment pouvons-nous rendre justice à la complexité de nos politiques en étant capables de concilier deux vérités contradictoires, comme nous le rappelle Micol Meghnagi dans le contexte de la Libye de Kadhafi et du panarabisme ? Quant à l’illustration de couverture, il s’agit d’une peinture de l’artiste parisienne guyanaise Johanna Mirabel.
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July 2026
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