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What would it mean today to think or to imagine, to design or to construct, in relation not to things made" but to "things in the making"? This question, first posed by the philosopher William James, was the point of departure for "The Pragmatist Imagination." The volume brings together position statements, theoretical speculations, and critical commentary by 33 leading(...)
The pragmatist imagination: thinking about things in the making
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What would it mean today to think or to imagine, to design or to construct, in relation not to things made" but to "things in the making"? This question, first posed by the philosopher William James, was the point of departure for "The Pragmatist Imagination." The volume brings together position statements, theoretical speculations, and critical commentary by 33 leading thinkers and makers from over a dozen disciplines. Based on the proceedings of an international workshop held at Columbia University under the auspices of the Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture in spring 2000, a preamble to the much-ballyhooed conference at the Museum of Modern Art in November, 2000, the contributions traverse a set of burning questions about the future, ranging from the relationship between art and experience to the impact of new technologies on human consciousness, from transformations in everyday life to problems of public space, and from the destiny of the nation-state toemergent forms of transnationalism.
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"Maps of the imagination" takes us on a magic carpet ride over terrain both familiar and exotic. Using the map as metaphor, Peter Turchi considers writing as a combination of exploration and presentation. He compares the way a writer leads a reader through the imaginary world of a story, novel, or poem to the way a mapmaker charts the physical world. "To ask for a map,"(...)
Maps of the imagination : the writer as cartographer
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"Maps of the imagination" takes us on a magic carpet ride over terrain both familiar and exotic. Using the map as metaphor, Peter Turchi considers writing as a combination of exploration and presentation. He compares the way a writer leads a reader through the imaginary world of a story, novel, or poem to the way a mapmaker charts the physical world. "To ask for a map," says Turchi, "is to say, 'Tell me a story.' " The author looks at how mapmakers and writers deal with blank space and the blank page; the conventions they use (both the ones readers recognize and those that often go unnoticed) or consciously disregard; the role of geometry in maps and the parallel role of form in writing; how both maps and writing serve to re-create an individual's view of the world; and the artist's delicate balance of intuition with intention. The ancient Greeks, German globe makers, and British cartographers join forces with the Marx Brothers, NASA, and Roadrunner cartoons to shed light on the strategies of writers as diverse as Sappho, Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, Vladimir Nabokov, Italo Calvino, Don DeLillo, and Heather McHugh. A combination of history, critical cartography, personal essay, and practical guide to writing, "Maps of the imagination" is a book for writers, for readers, and for anyone interested in creativity.
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Geography and Vision is a series of personal reflections by leading cultural geographer, Denis Cosgrove, on the complex connections between seeing, imagining and representing the world geographically. Ranging historically from the sixteenth century to the present day, the essays include reflections upon discovery and the role of imagination in giving it meaning;(...)
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Geography & vision: seeing, imagining and representing the world
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Geography and Vision is a series of personal reflections by leading cultural geographer, Denis Cosgrove, on the complex connections between seeing, imagining and representing the world geographically. Ranging historically from the sixteenth century to the present day, the essays include reflections upon discovery and the role of imagination in giving it meaning; colonisation and sixteenth century gardening; the shaping of American landscapes; wilderness, imperial mappings and masculinity; urban cartography and utopian visions; conceptions of the Pacific; the cartography of John Ruskin; and the imaginative grip of the Equator. Extensively illustrated, this engaging work reveals the richness and complexity of the geographical imagination as expressed over the past five centuries.
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Slowness
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Disconcerted and enchanted, the reader follows the narrator through a midsummer's night in which two tales of seduction, sperated by more than two-hundred years, interweave and oscillate between the sublime and the comic, finally culminating in poignant cross-century encounter sure to linger in the reader's mind.
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Disconcerted and enchanted, the reader follows the narrator through a midsummer's night in which two tales of seduction, sperated by more than two-hundred years, interweave and oscillate between the sublime and the comic, finally culminating in poignant cross-century encounter sure to linger in the reader's mind.
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Ghosts
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Translation in 2008 by Chris Andrews. Ghosts revolves around an immigrant worker's family squatting on the haunted construction site of a luxury condominium building. All of the workmen and their wives and children see the ghosts, who literally hang around the place, but one teenage girl becomes the most curious. Her questions about the ghosts get so intense that her(...)
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Translation in 2008 by Chris Andrews. Ghosts revolves around an immigrant worker's family squatting on the haunted construction site of a luxury condominium building. All of the workmen and their wives and children see the ghosts, who literally hang around the place, but one teenage girl becomes the most curious. Her questions about the ghosts get so intense that her mother - in a chilling split-second - realizes her daughter's life hangs in the balance.
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Julian West, jeune homme de bonne famille, s’endort en 1887 et émerge d’un long sommeil en 2000. Boston a considérablement changé, mais ce qui va l’étonner concerne le fonctionnement de l’économie, du travail, des loisirs, de la famille et de l’État. Dès sa parution en 1888, l’ouvrage a connu un grand succès et a été traduit dans plusieurs langues.
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Julian West, jeune homme de bonne famille, s’endort en 1887 et émerge d’un long sommeil en 2000. Boston a considérablement changé, mais ce qui va l’étonner concerne le fonctionnement de l’économie, du travail, des loisirs, de la famille et de l’État. Dès sa parution en 1888, l’ouvrage a connu un grand succès et a été traduit dans plusieurs langues.
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Bit Rot: stories and essays
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A thought-provoking, binge-worthy new collection of essays, stories, and musings from Douglas Coupland, Bit Rot explores the different ways in which twentieth-century notions of the future are being shredded, and it is a literary gem of the digital age. “Bit rot” is a term used in digital archiving to describe the way digital files can spontaneously and quickly decompose.(...)
Bit Rot: stories and essays
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A thought-provoking, binge-worthy new collection of essays, stories, and musings from Douglas Coupland, Bit Rot explores the different ways in which twentieth-century notions of the future are being shredded, and it is a literary gem of the digital age. “Bit rot” is a term used in digital archiving to describe the way digital files can spontaneously and quickly decompose. As Douglas Coupland writes, “Bit rot also describes the way my brain has been feeling since 2000, as I shed older and weaker neurons and connections and enhance new and unexpected ones.” "Bit Rot" the book is a fascinating meditation on the ways in which humanity tries to make sense of our shifting consciousness. Coupland, just like the Internet, mixes forms to achieve his ends. Short fiction is interspersed with essays on all aspects of modern life. The result is addictively satisfying for Coupland’s established fanbase hungry for his observations about our world, and a revelation to new readers of his work. For almost three decades, his unique pattern recognition has powered his fiction, his phrase-making, and his visual art.
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Poètemoins, anthologie
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L'anthologie du fondateur de la Poésie Concrète au Brésil, auteur d'une œuvre radicale aussi influente dans le champ littéraire qu'artistique. L'anthologie bilingue Poètemoins d'Augusto de Campos regroupe un choix de poèmes à partir de ses trois recueils Viva Vaia (Viva Vivant), Despoesia (Dépoésie) et Nao Poemas (Non Poèmes), des mythiques Poetamenos de 1953 à ses(...)
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L'anthologie du fondateur de la Poésie Concrète au Brésil, auteur d'une œuvre radicale aussi influente dans le champ littéraire qu'artistique. L'anthologie bilingue Poètemoins d'Augusto de Campos regroupe un choix de poèmes à partir de ses trois recueils Viva Vaia (Viva Vivant), Despoesia (Dépoésie) et Nao Poemas (Non Poèmes), des mythiques Poetamenos de 1953 à ses dernières créations. L'ouvrage commence (couverture) par un hommage à Mallarmé, l'hologramme Poema Bomba, à partir d'une phrase citée par Sartre : «Il n'y a pas d'autre bombe qu'un poème» et se termine par une phrase de Mallarmé mise en page typographiquement à la manière concrétiste : «Des contemporains ne savent pas lire», en réponse à un reproche d'obscurité qu'on lui faisait. Cette traduction des principaux poèmes d'Augusto de Campos, le poète de São Paulo à l'origine en 1953, avec le poète suisse Eugen Gomringer, du mouvement international de la Poésie Concrète, a été réalisée à partir notamment des derniers recueils parus au Brésil, dont Não, Non. Les derniers poèmes (notamment présentés dans le cadre de la 11e Biennale de Lyon) sont en fait des fichiers informatiques conçus comme des œuvres. La question posée est celle de la modernité en écriture. Augusto de Campos nous renvoie à cette modernité initiée en France par le Coup de Dés de Mallarmé ou les Idéogrammes lyriques d'Apollinaire. Un poème pose la question de la post avant-garde : Pós-tudo, Post-tout. Avec le mot «MUDO», à la fois «je change» et «muet». L'usage de l'ordinateur comme médium ouvre de nouvelles possibilités à cette avant-garde. Ce qui n'empêche pas le livre, comme en témoigne cet objet, impossible à réaliser sans l'ordinateur. Préface et traductions : Jacques Donguy.
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Contemporary short stories enacting giddy, witty revenge on the documents that define and dominate our lives.
Fakes : an anthology of pseudo-interviews, faux-lectures, quasi-letters,
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Contemporary short stories enacting giddy, witty revenge on the documents that define and dominate our lives.
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The Soviet Union was founded on a fairytale. It was built on 20th-century magic called 'the planned economy', which was going to gush forth an abundance of good things that the penny-pinching lands of capitalism could never match. And just for a little while, in the heady years of the late 1950s, the magic seemed to be working. "Red Plenty" is about that moment in(...)
Red plenty: inside the fifties' soviet dream
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The Soviet Union was founded on a fairytale. It was built on 20th-century magic called 'the planned economy', which was going to gush forth an abundance of good things that the penny-pinching lands of capitalism could never match. And just for a little while, in the heady years of the late 1950s, the magic seemed to be working. "Red Plenty" is about that moment in history, and how it came, and how it went away; about the brief era when, under the rash leadership of Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet Union looked forward to a future of rich communists and envious capitalists, when Moscow would out-glitter Manhattan, every Lada would be better engineered than a Porsche and sputniks would lead the way to the stars. And it's about the scientists who did their genuinely brilliant best to make the dream come true, to give the tyranny its happy ending.
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