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Toxicité coloniale : documenter le paysage radioactif dans le Sahara

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« Toxicité coloniale » revient sur les programmes d’essais nucléaires français menés entre 1960 et 1966 dans le Sahara algérien. Ce programme secret, qui s’est déroulé pendant et après la guerre d’indépendance algérienne (1954-1962), a permis au régime colonial français de mettre à feu quatre bombes atomiques atmosphériques, treize souterraines et mené d’autres expériences nucléaires dans le désert. Alors que la grande majorité des documents d’archives sont toujours classés secret aujourd’hui, « Toxicité coloniale » rassemble une variété de sources permettant de documenter l’histoire violente des activités de la France en Algérie. Le livre constitue un corpus de choix à l’intersection de la justice spatiale, sociale et environnementale pour ceux et celles qui s’intéressent à l’architecture, au paysage et aux pratiques d’archivage dans une démarche postcoloniale.

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Colonial toxicity: Rehearsing French radioactive architecture and landscape in the Sahara

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In the 1960s the French colonial regime detonated four atmospheric atomic bombs, thirteen underground nuclear bombs, and conducted other nuclear experiments in the Algerian Sahara. This secret, still-classified programme occurred during and after the Algerian War (1954–1962). Meticulously culled together from numerous sources by architectural historian Samia Henni, this publication’s wealth of materials documenting the violent history of France’s activities in the Algerian desert offers a rich repository for all those concerned with histories of nuclear weapons and engaged at the intersections of spatial, social, and environmental justice, as well as anticolonial archival practices.

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On architecture and greenwashing: The political economy of space vol. 1

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With its reliance on extracted materials and an intense use of resources, the process of construction begs the question whether real sustainability in architecture and planning is possible. For some, a short-term solution is "greenwashing": adopting strategies of simulated commitment instead of investing in actual change toward fewer emissions. NGOs have called out large companies for "low integrity" pledges, pointing out the systemic ecological injustice that the built environment creates through material, wealth and labor extractivism. As institutionalized and commodified greenwashing hollows out the term, how do architects and designers position their work beyond a flattening universalistic understanding of sustainability? The first volume of a forthcoming series, "On architecture and greenwashing" is a collection of essays that presents a cross section of positions on architecture and its political economies, and explores ways to correct course in the face of the climate crisis.

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Écologies visuelles de Los Angeles

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Ce livre ouvre une discussion à propos des motifs visuels les plus reproduits pour figurer l'espace de Los Angeles dans les productions audiovisuelles, à la télévision et sur les écrans. Que l'on soit immobilisé à la maison à cause d'une jambe dans le plâtre comme Jeff Jefferies dans Fenêtre sur cour, ou que l'on soit enfermé chez soi et contraint d'observer sur un écran son pays frappé par une pandémie, voir le monde à travers une fenêtre n'a jamais pris autant de sens qu'aujourd'hui. Mais si nous pouvons « voir à distance » pouvons-nous réellement « prendre de la distance » sur les images que nous voyons ? Par exemple, que nous disent les séries dont elle est l'héroïne de Los Angeles et de ses habitants ? Existe-t-il une culture visuelle angeline ? Les multiples images dont elle est l'objet depuis plusieurs décennies font circuler des motifs récurrents. Ces derniers participent d'un certain regard porté sur la ville qui n'est pas sans poser quelques conflits idéologiques. Diffusées en masse, certains d'entre-eux renforcent les stéréotypes urbains, mais aussi sociaux. Transmédiatiques, ces motifs se comportent comme des organismes autonomes qui forment des écologies visuelles. En s'appuyant sur l'approches écologiques de l'historien anglais Reyner Banham, ce livre ouvre une discussion à propos des motifs visuels qui dominent pour figurer les espaces physiques et sociaux de Los Angeles à la télévision et sur les écrans. Et vise à identifier quelles sont les contre-visions imaginées comme des alternatives aux lieux communs, comme des fictions émancipatrices de Los Angeles.

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Last futures: natures, technology and the end of architecture

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In the late 1960s the world was faced with impending disaster: the height of the Cold War, the end of oil and the decline of great cities throughout the world. Out of this crisis came a new generation that hoped to build a better future, influenced by visions of geodesic domes, walking cities and a meaningful connection with nature. In this work of cultural history, architect Douglas Murphy traces the lost archeology of the present day through the works of thinkers and designers such as Buckminster Fuller, the ecological pioneer Stewart Brand, the Archigram architects who envisioned the Plug-In City in the ’60s, as well as co-operatives in Vienna, communes in the Californian desert and protesters on the streets of Paris. In this mind-bending account of the last avant-garde, we see not just the source of our current problems but also some powerful alternative futures.

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Crash metropolis : Design écosocial et critique de la métropolisation des territoires

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Le risque majeur de notre époque est celui d’un crash territorial total. La métropolisation à marche forcée provoque la marchandisation des territoires et la dégradation des milieux qui les rendent habitables. Ce volume tente d’y répondre en réunissant chercheurs, concepteurs et activistes reconnus pour leur engagement. Leurs contributions examinent l’implication directe des designers, architectes, urbanistes et artistes pour comprendre leur responsabilité et les potentiels de « réhabitation » que ces pratiques peuvent porter. Dans ce travail de « recherche-édition » richement illustré les différents régimes de discours (textes et images) et les propositions graphiques soutiennent l’esprit critique et expérimental du projet. Sous la direction de Ludovic Duhem, philosophe, coordinateur de la recherche à l’École Supérieure d’Art et de Design de Valenciennes.

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Debrisphere: Landscape as an extension of the military imagination

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Debrisphere is a yet-unnamed stratum of Earth's crust, a supra-stratum of the Lithosphere. It contains the worldwide man-made landscapes: the artificial mountains of Germany, the “blooming deserts” of Israel, the military coral reefs of China and the United States, and other similar constructions around the world resulted from, or still serving, conflict and war. The artist's book by Anca Benera and Arnold Estefan is published as an extension to their eponymous installation, presented for the first time in the frame of “Natural Histories. Traces of the Political” exhibition at MUMOK Vienna in 2017. Alongside the artists' case studies, which include Ariel Sharon Park, Teuflesberg, Diego Garcia, Johnston Atoll and the Spartly Islands, the publication includes four republished texts by Andrew Chubb, Hito Steyerl and Eyal Weizman, and newly commissioned texts by Noit Banai, Maja & Reuben Fowkes and Raluca Voinea.

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Proxemics and the architecture of social interaction

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Architecture is a constant presence in the study of human interaction- acting as both the ground on which human social behavior is performed and a means of shaping subjectivity itself. ''Proxemics'' was an attempt to visualize and instrumentalize these dynamics, appealing to both the social sciences and the emerging field of environmental design. Founded by anthropologist Edward T. Hall and taking shape between the departments of architecture and anthropology at the Illinois Institute of Technology, proxemics developed amidst cold war political tensions and intense social and civil unrest. ''Proxemics and the Architecture of Social Interaction'' presents selections from Hall’s extensive archive of visual materials alongside a critical analysis that traces transformations in the fields of design and science. Together these materials illuminate a moment in American history when new spatial practices arose to challenge the environmental conditions of cultural, political, and racial identity.

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Radical futurisms: Ecologies of collapse/chronopolitics/justice to come

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There is widespread consensus that we are living at the end—of democracy, of liberalism, of capitalism, of a healthy planet, of the Holocene, of civilization as we know it. In this book, drawing on radical futurisms and visions of justice-to-come emerging from the traditions of the oppressed—Indigenous, African-American, multispecies, anti-capitalist—as materialized in experimental visual cultural, new media, aesthetic practices, and social movements, T. J. Demos poses speculative questions about what comes after end-of-world narratives. He argues that it's as vital to defeat fatalistic nihilism as it is to defeat the false solutions of green capitalism and algorithmic governance. How might we decolonize the future, and cultivate an emancipated chronopolitics in relation to an undetermined not-yet? If we are to avoid climate emergency's cooptation by technofixes, and the defuturing of multitudes by xenophobic eco-fascism, Demos argues, we must cultivate visions of just futurity and multispecies flourishing.

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Deserts are not empty

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Colonial and imperial powers have often portrayed arid lands as “empty” spaces ready to be occupied, exploited, extracted, and polluted. Despite the undeniable presence of human and nonhuman lives and forces in desert territories, the “regime of emptiness” has inhabited, and is still inhabiting, many imaginaries. This volume challenges this colonial tendency, questions its roots and ramifications, and remaps the representations, theories, histories, and stories of arid lands—which comprise approximately one-third of the Earth’s land surface. It brings together poems in original languages, conversations with collectives, and essays by scholars and professionals from the fields of architecture, architectural history and theory, curatorial studies, comparative literature, film studies, landscape architecture, and photography. These different approaches and diverse voices draw on a framework of decoloniality to unsettle and unlearn the desert, opening up possibilities to see, think, imagine it otherwise.