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Thinking in transit: Explorations of life in motion

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Megan Craig and Edward S. Casey provide a collaborative phenomenological exploration of thought in motion, interspersing lively first-person accounts with broader philosophical inquiry. Their investigation, structured around the four ancient elements—water, air, earth, and fire—ranges across swimming, boats, balloons, planes, cars, trains, and other modes of transport. Craig and Casey invite readers to recall their own experiences of travel and how thinking changes in tandem with shifting environments and whatever conveys a person from place to place. They also consider how changing climates and evolving technologies, with new rhythms and materialities, have shaped human thinking in its many varieties. ''Thinking in Transit'' celebrates forms of movement and motion that carry the body and mind out of their habituated routines. This book urges a change in how philosophers have traditionally framed the setting for serious thought: from the austere, solitary space of a study to populated places of interaction and passage.

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Walking in Berlin

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In 'Walking in Berlin', Hessel captures the rhythm of Weimar-era Berlin, recording the seismic shifts in German culture. Nearly all of the essays take the form of a walk or outing, focusing on either a theme or part of the city, and many end at a theater, cinema, or club. 'Walking in Berlin' was a central model for Benjamin’s Arcades Project and remains a classic of “walking literature” that ranges from Surrealist perambulation to Situationist “psychogeography.” This MIT Press edition includes the complete text in translation as well as Benjamin’s essay on 'Walking in Berlin', originally written as a review of the book’s original edition.

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Weedon ou la vie dans les bois

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Après « Petite géographie de la fuite », Thierry Pardo poursuit sa recherche des espaces de liberté. Cette fois, il marche sur les pas du philosophe naturaliste Henry David Thoreau et met notre époque au défi d'une nouvelle expérience forestière, dans une maison "sans bouton". Sa démarche exploratoire interroge notre relation au monde, à la nature et au silence sans toutefois se couper des questions contemporaines. Comment participer à la poésie de notre vie sans s'abîmer dans les préoccupations de notre siècle ? Comment un petit pas de côté et un saut dans le temps peuvent relier Walden et Weedon et inventer de nouveau la vie dans les bois ? Dans ce bref essai poétique, Thierry Pardo nous invite à contempler le monde différemment.

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La vraie vie est ici : voyager encore ?

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Alors que le système touristique recouvre aujourd’hui la planète et s’étend du domicile jusqu’à la destination, il est permis de se demander si le voyage peut encore dépasser le tourisme. Le tourisme est une des industries ayant connu l’essor le plus important ces dernières décennies. Pratiquée par une infime partie de la population mondiale, cette activité n’est pas sans effets délétères sur les populations, les paysages, les territoires, même dans ses incarnations les plus « vertes » et « responsables ». Est-ce à dire qu’il faudrait dans ces conditions aller jusqu’à cesser de voyager? C’est à cette vaste réflexion que nous convie Rodolphe Christin dans ce court et percutant essai. Dans la foulée des différents écrits qu’il a publiés sur ce thème au fil des ans, et pour faire suite à la critique implacable du tourisme qu’il livrait dans son « Manuel de l’antitourisme » (Écosociété, 2017), l’auteur poursuit ici sa réflexion en abordant la question du voyage en lui-même et de ses possibilités dans le monde d’aujourd’hui. Une manière de répondre par la bande à l’opposition voyage/tourisme qui revient inévitablement dans les débats que soulèvent ces thèmes.

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Island zombie: Iceland writings

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Contemporary artist Roni Horn first visited Iceland in 1975 at the age of nineteen, and since then, the island’s treeless expanse has had an enduring hold on Horn’s creative work. Through a series of remarkable and poetic reflections, vignettes, episodes, and illustrated essays, ''Island zombie'' distills the artist’s lifelong experience of Iceland’s natural environment. Together, these pieces offer an unforgettable exploration of the indefinable and inescapable force of remote, elemental places, and provide a sustained look at how an island and its atmosphere can take possession of the innermost self. ''Island zombie'' is a meditation on being present. It vividly conveys Horn’s experiences, from the deeply profound to the joyful and absurd. Through powerful evocations of the changing weather and other natural phenomena- the violence of the wind, the often aggressive birds, the imposing influence of glaciers, and the ubiquitous presence of water in all its variety- we come to understand the author’s abiding need for Iceland, a place uniquely essential to Horn’s creative and spiritual life. The dramatic surroundings provoke examinations of self-sufficiency and isolation, and these ruminations summon a range of cultural companions, including El Greco, Emily Dickinson, Judy Garland, Wallace Stevens, Edgar Allan Poe, William Morris, and Rachel Carson. While brilliantly portraying nature’s sublime energy, Horn also confronts issues of consumption, destruction, and loss, as the industrial and man-made encroach on Icelandic wilderness.

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Jean-François Pirson : Pratiques de territoire - marches et workshops

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Après un premier ouvrage consacré à Jean-François Pirson et à son travail pédagogique centré sur l’espace, la Cellule architecture poursuit cette collaboration en consacrant le troisième volume de sa collection aux marches et workshops qu’il mène depuis 2010. Dans ses workshops, cet artiste-pédagogue nous invite à expérimenter un 'corps-à-corps direct avec le territoire'. Partant d’un espace à explorer prédéfini par lui, chaque participant·e est invité·e à tracer au sens propre et au sens figuré son propre chemin, 'entre le monde et soi', 'dedans – dehors'. Cet ouvrage prolonge les intentions développées dans le premier volume : ouvrir des champs ; stimuler des expériences plastiques, kinesthésiques, ludiques et humaines accessibles à tous ; les partager.

Titre:
Philosophie du marcheur

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Un voyage initiatique, où l'auteur raconte sa façon d'être au monde grâce et par la marche, de faire corps avec son environnement, questionnant tout du long notre rapport au paysage urbain.

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The walker: on finding and losing yourself in the modern city

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There is no such thing as a false step. Every time we walk we are going somewhere. Especially if we are going nowhere. Moving around the modern city is not a way of getting from A to B, but of understanding who and where we are. In a series of riveting intellectual rambles, Matthew Beaumont retraces episodes in the history of the walker since the mid-nineteenth century. From Dickens’s insomniac night rambles to restless excursions through the faceless monuments of today’s neoliberal city, the act of walking is one of self-discovery and self-escape, of disappearances and secret subversions. Pacing stride for stride alongside literary amblers and thinkers such as Edgar Allan Poe, André Breton, H. G. Wells, Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys and Ray Bradbury, Beaumont explores the relationship between the metropolis and its pedestrian life. Through these writings, Beaumont asks: Can you get lost in a crowd? What are the consequences of using your smartphone in the street? What differentiates the nocturnal metropolis from the city of daylight? What connects walking, philosophy and the big toe? And can we save the city—or ourselves—by taking to the pavement?

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Red thread: On mazes and labyrinths

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The tale of how the hero Theseus killed the Minotaur, finding his way out of the labyrinth using Ariadne's ball of red thread, is one of the most intriguing, suggestive and persistent of all myths, and the labyrinth - the beautiful, confounding and terrifying building created for the half-man, half-bull monster - is one of the foundational symbols of human ingenuity and artistry. Charlotte Higgins, author of the Baillie Gifford-shortlisted ''Under Another Sky,'' tracks the origins of the story of the labyrinth in the poems of Homer, Catullus, Virgil and Ovid, and with them builds an ingenious edifice of her own. She follows the idea of the labyrinth through the Cretan excavations of Sir Arthur Evans, the mysterious turf labyrinths of Northern Europe, the church labyrinths of medieval French cathedrals and the hedge mazes of Renaissance gardens. Along the way, she traces the labyrinthine ideas of writers from Dante and Borges to George Eliot and Conan Doyle, and of artists from Titian and Vel zquez to Picasso and Eva Hesse. Her intricately constructed narrative asks what it is to be lost, what it is to find one's way, and what it is to travel the confusing and circuitous path of a lived life. ''Red thread'' is, above all, a winding and unpredictable route through the byways of the author's imagination - one that leads the reader on a strange and intriguing journey, full of unexpected connections and surprising pleasures.

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The adventurer's glossary

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Adventure is always escapist and often utopian, yet we find solidarity with others and Kafkaesque existential rabbit holes within the words we use to celebrate high-flying escapades. Even when adventures are small in the cosmic scope, the terminology of thrilling exploits promotes a life lived at a high pitch. This go-to glossary for the philosophical explorer delves into these contradictions and insights through more than five hundred terms, from A-OK to zoom.