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Unknown Fields is a nomadic design studio that ventures out on expeditions into the shadows cast by the contemporary city, to uncover the industrial ecologies and precarious wilderness its technology and culture set in motion. "Tales from the dark side of the city" is a book series that forms an atlas to the territories and stories of a city that stretches across the(...)
novembre 2016
Tales from the dark side of the city, box set
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Unknown Fields is a nomadic design studio that ventures out on expeditions into the shadows cast by the contemporary city, to uncover the industrial ecologies and precarious wilderness its technology and culture set in motion. "Tales from the dark side of the city" is a book series that forms an atlas to the territories and stories of a city that stretches across the entire planet, a city that sits between documentary and fiction, a city of dislocated sites, of drone footage and hidden-camera investigations, of interviews and speculative narratives, of toxic objects and distributed matter from distant grounds. They are a collection of tales from the constellation of elsewheres that are conjured into being by the city’s wants and needs, fears and dreams. The series includes stories developed from expeditions through Bolivia and the Atacama Desert, the Western Australian Outback, the South China Sea and Inner Mongolia, the gemfields of Madagascar, Far North Alaska and the black sites of the United States.
To begin at the beginning
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In "To Begin at the Beginning", celebrated Spanish novelist and translator Javier Marías explores his impulse to write, the origins of his own family, and the connection between these two different sorts of beginnings. Exploring the difference between what is true in the world and what is true in fiction, he explains why an appeal to “real” events has never convinced him;(...)
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In "To Begin at the Beginning", celebrated Spanish novelist and translator Javier Marías explores his impulse to write, the origins of his own family, and the connection between these two different sorts of beginnings. Exploring the difference between what is true in the world and what is true in fiction, he explains why an appeal to “real” events has never convinced him; why the history of his own family—with its Cuban and Spanish strands—has left him uncertain about what is legend and what is historic fact; and why what has been imagined or dreamed can end up being truer than what “really happened.” Complemented by an essay by Margaret Jull Costa on the practice of translating Marías, the cahier is also accompanied by images taken from the works of the influential Cuban artist Wifredo Lam. The result is a beautifully produced chapbook by one of Europe’s preeminent novelists, ready to be discovered and celebrated by English readers.
Littérature et poésie
John Lautner
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Les projets de Lautner se concentrent sur les relations entre humains, espace et nature. Il a toujours été particulièrement sensible à l'environnement immédiat et aspire souvent à intégrer l'eau et le paysage naturel dans ses créations. Ses bâtiments se caractérisent par un toit immense, des murs en verre et des poutres en acier dans un mélange exaltant de fantaisie et de(...)
John Lautner
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Les projets de Lautner se concentrent sur les relations entre humains, espace et nature. Il a toujours été particulièrement sensible à l'environnement immédiat et aspire souvent à intégrer l'eau et le paysage naturel dans ses créations. Ses bâtiments se caractérisent par un toit immense, des murs en verre et des poutres en acier dans un mélange exaltant de fantaisie et de minimalisme. Rejetant toute norme architecturale, Lautner met l'accent sur les formes géométriques telles que les cercles et les triangles, en les agrémentant d'une multitude d'innovations technologiques. Son utilisation ingénieuse des matériaux de construction modernes, dont le béton, lui a permis de développer ses structures dans des lieux singuliers de la Californie et de bâtir ses édifices de science-fiction à flanc de montagnes, sur les plages et les déserts. Certaines résidences de la région de Los Angeles, dont la «Chemosphere» et le «Silvertop», se targuent de vues panoramiques et dégagent encore un charme semblant venir d'un autre monde.
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Gothic dark glamour
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From its origins in the eighteenth-century literature of terror to its contemporary manifestations in vampire fiction, cinema, and art, the gothic has embraced the powers of horror and the erotic macabre. “Gothic” is an epithet with a strange history – evoking images of death, destruction, and decay. Ironically, its negative connotations have made the gothic an ideal(...)
Création de mode
septembre 2008, New Haven, London
Gothic dark glamour
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From its origins in the eighteenth-century literature of terror to its contemporary manifestations in vampire fiction, cinema, and art, the gothic has embraced the powers of horror and the erotic macabre. “Gothic” is an epithet with a strange history – evoking images of death, destruction, and decay. Ironically, its negative connotations have made the gothic an ideal symbol of rebellion for a wide range of cultural outsiders. Popularly associated with black-clad teenagers and rock musicians, gothic fashion encompasses not only subcultural styles (from old-school goth to cyber-goth and beyond) but also high fashion by such designers as Alexander McQueen, John Galliano of Christian Dior, Rick Owens, Olivier Theyskens, and Yohji Yamamoto. Fashion photographers, such as Sean Ellis and Eugenio Recuenco, have also drawn on the visual vocabulary of the gothic to convey narratives of dark glamour. As the text and lavish illustrations in this book suggest, gothic fashion has deep cultural roots that give it an enduring potency.
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septembre 2008, New Haven, London
Création de mode
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Los Angeles is a city that has long thrived on the continual re-creation of its own myth. In this extraordinary work, Norman Klein examines the process of memory erasure in LA. Using a provocative mixture of fact and fiction, the book takes us on an "anti-tour" of downtown LA, examines life for Vietnamese immigrants in the City of Dreams, imagines Walter Benjamin as a Los(...)
The history of forgetting: Los Angeles and the erasure of the memory
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Los Angeles is a city that has long thrived on the continual re-creation of its own myth. In this extraordinary work, Norman Klein examines the process of memory erasure in LA. Using a provocative mixture of fact and fiction, the book takes us on an "anti-tour" of downtown LA, examines life for Vietnamese immigrants in the City of Dreams, imagines Walter Benjamin as a Los Angeleno, and finally looks at the way information technology has recreated the city, turning cyberspace into the last suburb. In this new edition, Norman Klein explores the evolution of the Latino majority, how the Pacific economy is changing the structure of urban life, the impact of collapsing infrastructure in the city, and the restructuring of those very districts that had been "forgotten." Norman M. Klein is a critic and historian of mass culture, author of most recently, The Vatican to Vegas: The History of Special Effects. He teaches at the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles.
Théorie de l’urbanisme
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In the Bubble is about a world based less on stuff and more on people. Thackara describes a transformation that is taking place now -- not in a remote science fiction future; it's not about, as he puts it, "the schlock of the new" but about radical innovation already emerging in daily life. We are regaining respect for what people can do that technology can't. In the(...)
In the bubble : designing in a complex world
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In the Bubble is about a world based less on stuff and more on people. Thackara describes a transformation that is taking place now -- not in a remote science fiction future; it's not about, as he puts it, "the schlock of the new" but about radical innovation already emerging in daily life. We are regaining respect for what people can do that technology can't. In the Bubble describes services designed to help people carry out daily activities in new ways. Many of these services involve technology -- ranging from body implants to wide-bodied jets. But objects and systems play a supporting role in a people-centered world. The design focus is on services, not things. And new principles -- above all, lightness -- inform the way these services are designed and used. At the heart of In the Bubble is a belief, informed by a wealth of real-world examples, that ethics and responsibility can inform design decisions without impeding social and technical innovation.
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World brain
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In a series of talks and essays in 1937, H. G. Wells proselytized for what he called a "World Brain," as manifested in a World Encyclopedia--a repository of scientifically established knowledge--that would spread enlightenment around the world and lead to world peace. Wells, known to readers today as the author of "The War of the Worlds" and other science fiction(...)
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In a series of talks and essays in 1937, H. G. Wells proselytized for what he called a "World Brain," as manifested in a World Encyclopedia--a repository of scientifically established knowledge--that would spread enlightenment around the world and lead to world peace. Wells, known to readers today as the author of "The War of the Worlds" and other science fiction classics, was imagining something like a predigital Wikipedia. The World Encyclopedia would provide a summary of verified reality (in about forty volumes); it would be widely available, free of copyright, and utilize the latest technology. Of course, as Bruce Sterling points out in the foreword to this edition of Wells's work, the World Brain didn't happen; the internet did. And yet, Wells anticipated aspects of the internet, envisioning the World Brain as a technical system of networked knowledge (in Sterling's words, a "hypothetical super-gadget"). Wells's optimism about the power of information might strike readers today as naïvely utopian, but possibly also inspirational.
Paul Rousteau: Seascapes
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French artist Paul Rousteau is known for his alchemic light and colour-bending approach to photography. Seascapes is a series made by Rousteau while artist-in-residence on a boat off the Coral Sea, in Australia. Inspired by the unending horizons around him, Rousteau retreated to the darkroom to invent mental topographies of his own, reducing the landscape down to the(...)
Paul Rousteau: Seascapes
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French artist Paul Rousteau is known for his alchemic light and colour-bending approach to photography. Seascapes is a series made by Rousteau while artist-in-residence on a boat off the Coral Sea, in Australia. Inspired by the unending horizons around him, Rousteau retreated to the darkroom to invent mental topographies of his own, reducing the landscape down to the barest constituent elements – water, air and light. Often saturated, interrupted or out of focus, his photographs are series of playful experiments navigating between figuration and abstraction, painting and digital art. These constructed landscapes invite us to consider the point where human imagination interacts with the landscape - how fantasies of distance, displacement and faraway places are projected onto the horizon. Existing somewhere between vision, imagination and a surreal, submerged reality, Rousteau extends this fiction through globetrotting captions and an innovative design that invites readers to rip away and reappropriate the seascapes as their own.
Monographies photo
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Illustrateur et satiriste à l’influence considérable, Albert Robida (1848-1926) est resté fameux pour ses fresques d’anticipation, comme Le Vingtième siècle ou La Vie électrique, ou pour ses grands dessins de presse. On voit parfois en lui un précurseur de la science-fiction, un prophète visionnaire des sociétés du XXe siècle, ou même l’inventeur avant l’heure de la(...)
Albert Robida : de la satire à l'anticipation
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Illustrateur et satiriste à l’influence considérable, Albert Robida (1848-1926) est resté fameux pour ses fresques d’anticipation, comme Le Vingtième siècle ou La Vie électrique, ou pour ses grands dessins de presse. On voit parfois en lui un précurseur de la science-fiction, un prophète visionnaire des sociétés du XXe siècle, ou même l’inventeur avant l’heure de la télévision, du téléphone et du voyage en avion… Contre ces raccourcis quelque peu anachroniques, cet ouvrage a pour ambition de replacer les grandes anticipations de Robida dans leur contexte, celui de la presse satirique et de ses cibles, mais aussi celui des logiques du rire au XIXe siècle : les transports, les médias, les femmes, la technophilie, les spectacles… c’est toute la culture de l’époque qui est passée au crible de sa verve satirique à travers une technique d’exagération qui le conduit à imaginer inlassablement ce que pourraient donner dans l’avenir les mutations qui transforment en profondeur le XIXe siècle finissant.
Illustration
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Cette publication est conçue comme une extension de l'exposition « Etwas mehr als Arbeit », présentée au Kunstverein Göttingen en 2020. Dans l'exposition, le projet de recherche « Object Notes » de Malte Roloff et Santiago da Silva en collaboration avec la commissaire Tomke Braun présente des constellations d'objets, de matériaux, de processus et de documents issus de(...)
juillet 2022
Object notes: Just a little rest
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Cette publication est conçue comme une extension de l'exposition « Etwas mehr als Arbeit », présentée au Kunstverein Göttingen en 2020. Dans l'exposition, le projet de recherche « Object Notes » de Malte Roloff et Santiago da Silva en collaboration avec la commissaire Tomke Braun présente des constellations d'objets, de matériaux, de processus et de documents issus de l'art et du design, de la production artistique et de la restauration. Le projet explore l'idée de fabrication comme point d'entrée à la question de savoir qui, comment et dans quelles conditions l'art contemporain est produit. Il examine l'utilisation et la signification de l'artisanat et du travail dans l'art contemporain et la manière dont la connaissance de sa production affecte sa perception. La publication présente différentes contributions des participants au projet. Les formats vont des encarts de pages volantes, de la fiction littéraire et d'une conversation à un essai spécialement commandé à l'historienne du design britannique Tanya Harrod.