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In ''The sovereign self', Grant H. Kester examines the evolving discourse of aesthetic autonomy from its origins in the Enlightenment through avant-garde projects and movements in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Kester traces the idea of aesthetic autonomy-the sense that art should be autonomous from social forces while retaining the ability to reflect back(...)
The sovereign self: Aesthetic autonomy from the Enlightenment to the Avant-Garde
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In ''The sovereign self', Grant H. Kester examines the evolving discourse of aesthetic autonomy from its origins in the Enlightenment through avant-garde projects and movements in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Kester traces the idea of aesthetic autonomy-the sense that art should be autonomous from social forces while retaining the ability to reflect back critically on society-through Kant, Schiller, Hegel, Marx, and Adorno. Kester critiques the use of aesthetic autonomy as the basis for understanding the nature of art and the shifting relationship between art and revolutionary praxis. He shows that dominant discourses of aesthetic autonomy reproduce the very forms of bourgeois liberalism that autonomy discourse itself claims to challenge. Analyzing avant-garde art and political movements in Russia, India, Latin America, and elsewhere, Kester retheorizes the aesthetic beyond autonomy. Ultimately, Kester demonstrates that the question of aesthetic autonomy has ramifications that extend beyond art to encompass the nature of political transformation and forms of anticolonial resistance that challenge the Eurocentric concept of ''Man,'' upon which the aesthetic itself often depends.
Théorie de l’art
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In "Fugitive time", Matthew Omelsky theorizes the embodied experience of time in twentieth- and twenty-first-century black artforms from across the world. Through the lens of time, he charts the sensations and coursing thoughts that accompany desires for freedom as they appear in the work of artists as varied as Toni Morrison, Yvonne Vera, Aimé Césaire, and Issa Samb.(...)
Fugitive time: Global aesthetics and the black beyond
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In "Fugitive time", Matthew Omelsky theorizes the embodied experience of time in twentieth- and twenty-first-century black artforms from across the world. Through the lens of time, he charts the sensations and coursing thoughts that accompany desires for freedom as they appear in the work of artists as varied as Toni Morrison, Yvonne Vera, Aimé Césaire, and Issa Samb. "Fugitive time" names a distinct utopian desire directed at the anticipated moment when the body and mind have been unburdened of the violence that has consumed black life globally for centuries, bringing with it a new form of being. Omelsky shows how fugitive time is not about attaining this transcendent release but is instead about sustaining the idea of it as an ecstatic social gathering. From the desire for ethereal queer worlds in the Black Audio Film Collective's "Twilight City" to Sun Ra's transformation of nineteenth-century scientific racism into an insurgent fugitive aesthetic, Omelsky shows how fugitive time evolves and how it remains a dominant form of imagining freedom in global black cultural expression.
Théorie de l’art
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Ces dernières décennies, un bouleversement majeur s’est accompli à bas bruit : un nouvel avatar du capitalisme financiarisé est né, le secteur de la gestion d’actifs. Bureaux, centres commerciaux, résidences étudiantes et seniors, entrepôts logistiques… Une part croissante de ces lieux du quotidien se trouve désormais entre les mains de propriétaires méconnus qui voient(...)
L'empire urbain de la finance
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Ces dernières décennies, un bouleversement majeur s’est accompli à bas bruit : un nouvel avatar du capitalisme financiarisé est né, le secteur de la gestion d’actifs. Bureaux, centres commerciaux, résidences étudiantes et seniors, entrepôts logistiques… Une part croissante de ces lieux du quotidien se trouve désormais entre les mains de propriétaires méconnus qui voient dans l’immobilier un moyen de faire fructifier l’épargne provenant des marchés financiers du monde entier. Ce livre nous entraîne dans les coulisses de la gestion d’actifs immobiliers en France. Il montre comment fonds d’investissement et sociétés foncières cherchent à imposer leurs logiques et critères financiers à l’État, aux élus locaux, aux aménageurs et aux promoteurs immobiliers, et révèle comment ces mastodontes sont parvenus à édifier un véritable empire dans les métropoles. Surtout, il éclaire les effets de cette transformation : à mesure que les gérants d’actifs captent la rente foncière, ce sont les inégalités sociales et spatiales qui se creusent. Autant d’enseignements pour interroger la place de la finance dans le débat sur la transition écologique des villes.
Théorie de l’urbanisme
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Michael Snow is one of Canada?s greatest living artists, widely acknowledged as one of the most significant figures in twentieth-century Canadian art. "Early Snow" focuses on the nascent stages of the artist?s career?- which is comparatively underexamined in art commentary and critical literature- ?and demonstrates how wide-ranging were his achievements in painting,(...)
Early snow: Michael Snow 1947-1962
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Michael Snow is one of Canada?s greatest living artists, widely acknowledged as one of the most significant figures in twentieth-century Canadian art. "Early Snow" focuses on the nascent stages of the artist?s career?- which is comparatively underexamined in art commentary and critical literature- ?and demonstrates how wide-ranging were his achievements in painting, drawing, sculpture, foldage, cinema, and photography. Snow?s first achievements may serve as a blueprint for his later career, but they also give ample proof of the creative heights he had already reached by the age of thirty-three. This book reveals a young man whose catholic interests in art and literature contributed to his uncanny ability to create profoundly original works of art. Perceptive essays by James King argue that these artworks are best approached in the context of Snow?s knowledge of modern European art (Paul Klee, Ben Nicholson, Alberto Giacometti) and contemporary American art (Willem de Kooning, Conrad Marca-Relli, Donald Judd, Marcel Duchamp), and that, ultimately, the work created during this era is about transformation.
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Les mobilités transforment la vie urbaine et la production de l'espace et de l'architecture. Dans la société des échanges, les hubs sont les réceptacles premiers de ces transformations en cours. Ils préfigurent les évolutions globales de la ville des déplacements durables, à l'heure de la communication numérique embarquée et des flux intelligents. « Le Projet Hub» ne(...)
Le projet hub : l'architecture de nouvelles mobilités
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Les mobilités transforment la vie urbaine et la production de l'espace et de l'architecture. Dans la société des échanges, les hubs sont les réceptacles premiers de ces transformations en cours. Ils préfigurent les évolutions globales de la ville des déplacements durables, à l'heure de la communication numérique embarquée et des flux intelligents. « Le Projet Hub» ne décrit pas à nouveau l'urbanisme des transports ou la complexité des réseaux, mais aborde la question qui s'impose: comment plus de trente modes de mobilités potentiels peuvent-ils coexister et se relier en un même lieu, à l'image des données qui s'échangent dans l'espace virtuel et ubiquitaire de nos smartphones? Les gares de la mégalopole nippone, de par leur histoire et leur surdéveloppement, ont représenté au 20e siècle l'avenir de telles infrastructures. Elles en incarnent désormais le passé. Bientôt bouleversées par la diversité des nouvelles mobilités écologiques, elles se révèlent être le terrain privilégié pour projeter la transformation du hub des mobilités du futur proche, qui n'existe pas encore et que nous devons faire apparaître.
Théorie de l’urbanisme
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First published in 2017 in conjunction with an exhibition at the Pavillon de l’Arsenal in Paris, this widely praised and still much sought-after book becomes available again in a new edition. It offers an analytical review from today’s perspective of the French capital’s profound transformation during the late nineteenth century under the direction of Georges Eugène Baron(...)
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Paris Haussmann: A model's relevance. 2nd edition
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First published in 2017 in conjunction with an exhibition at the Pavillon de l’Arsenal in Paris, this widely praised and still much sought-after book becomes available again in a new edition. It offers an analytical review from today’s perspective of the French capital’s profound transformation during the late nineteenth century under the direction of Georges Eugène Baron Haussmann. ''Paris Haussmann: a model’s relevance'' explores and analyzes the characteristics of Paris’s homogenous yet fluid cityscape, the result of a lengthy process of changes and evolutions, even in recent times. Research was conducted at all levels to classify and compare roadways, identify public spaces, and organize the blocks and buildings according to their current geometry. For the first time, the qualities of the Haussmann model have been set forth to show how they grapple with the same challenges that contemporary cities face. Topical essays feature alongside rich illustrative material, comprising photographs by celebrated photographer Cyrille Weiner, site plans and maps, floor plans and sections, axonometric projections, and various graphics.
A new nature
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A New Nature is a book about architecture as the organization of material. It unfolds an idea of working with architecture and urbanity as conditions rather than form. By experiencing cities and cultural landscapes as states of change, the author investigates their degree of organization between order and chaos: “When we design and build buildings, naturally, we need to(...)
A new nature
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A New Nature is a book about architecture as the organization of material. It unfolds an idea of working with architecture and urbanity as conditions rather than form. By experiencing cities and cultural landscapes as states of change, the author investigates their degree of organization between order and chaos: “When we design and build buildings, naturally, we need to enter into an already existing context. Even so, many houses simply stand alone side by side, rather than identifying themselves with and becoming a part of the urbanity that connects and creates cohesion in the culturally created – the new nature.” The first part of the book develops an architectural language that connects material and meaning through nine states between liquid and solid, in order to achieve a qualified and sustainable approach to understanding the modern city in its continuous transformation. The book’s second part documents a number of project proposals and realized works that illustrate the usage of this architectural idiom. Including precise drawings and models, A New Nature introduces a new kind of spatial investigation.
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Ce volume a pour ambition d’e^tre le premier ouvrage de re´fe´rence sur le travail de Wang Bing. Ce livre est le catalogue de l’exposition éponyme qui s’est tenue au BAL à Paris, du 5 mai au 22 août 2021. Pre´sentant 170 se´quences, issues de huit films re´alise´s au tournant du sie`cle (1999-2017), il met en exergue la singularite´ du langage cine´matographique de Bing(...)
Wang Bing : l'oeil qui marche
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Ce volume a pour ambition d’e^tre le premier ouvrage de re´fe´rence sur le travail de Wang Bing. Ce livre est le catalogue de l’exposition éponyme qui s’est tenue au BAL à Paris, du 5 mai au 22 août 2021. Pre´sentant 170 se´quences, issues de huit films re´alise´s au tournant du sie`cle (1999-2017), il met en exergue la singularite´ du langage cine´matographique de Bing et l’ampleur colossale et ine´dite de son projet anthropologique a` l’e´chelle d’un pays-continent ayant connu une transformation radicale de sa socie´te´. Au fil des pages se pre´cise l’attente, le doute et la concentration au travers d’un certain nombre de motifs temporels. Loin des grands re´cits magistraux ou des films de de´nonciation, le livre traduit par l’accumulation des images, des de´tails, des gestes la manie`re dont Wang Bing enregistre, lentement, patiemment, la pre´carite´ de ces vies dans l’intimite´ de leur corps-a`-corps quotidien avec la re´alite´.
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''Inventing Greenland'' is a critical and timely assemblage of stories highlighting a shifting landscape – one born from the imagination, projections, and ambitions of a wide range of actors. Geared towards a design audience, this book combines spatial sensibilities with Greenland's local cultural, social, and environmental realities. ''Inventing Greenland'' is a critical(...)
Inventing Greenland: designing an arctic nation
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''Inventing Greenland'' is a critical and timely assemblage of stories highlighting a shifting landscape – one born from the imagination, projections, and ambitions of a wide range of actors. Geared towards a design audience, this book combines spatial sensibilities with Greenland's local cultural, social, and environmental realities. ''Inventing Greenland'' is a critical and timely assemblage of stories highlighting a shifting landscape – one born from the imagination, projections, and ambitions of a wide range of actors. Today, especially within the design discipline, there is a lack of understanding of Greenland as a complex constellation of perspectives, histories, and forces. This book aims to fill that knowledge vacuum. Geared towards architects, landscape architects, and urban planners, this book combines spatial sensibilities with local cultural, social, and environmental realities. More specifically, spatial sensibility is a way of responding to and reading beyond a diverse array of relationships in the built environment. Furthermore, ''Inventing Greenland'' provides a broad understanding of a unique island undergoing intense transformation while drawing attention to its historical and current challenges and emerging opportunities.
Théorie de l’architecture
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In this publication, Marcus Boon explores music as a material practice of vibration. Focusing on the work of three contemporary musicians—Hindustani classical vocalist Pandit Pran Nath, Swedish drone composer and philosopher Catherine Christer Hennix, and Houston-based hip-hop musician DJ Screw—Boon outlines how music constructs a vibrational space of individual and(...)
The politics of vibration: Music as cosmopolitical practice
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In this publication, Marcus Boon explores music as a material practice of vibration. Focusing on the work of three contemporary musicians—Hindustani classical vocalist Pandit Pran Nath, Swedish drone composer and philosopher Catherine Christer Hennix, and Houston-based hip-hop musician DJ Screw—Boon outlines how music constructs a vibrational space of individual and collective transformation. Contributing to a new interdisciplinary field of vibration studies, he understands vibration as a mathematical and a physical concept, as a religious or ontological force, and as a psychological determinant of subjectivity. Boon contends that music, as a shaping of vibration, needs to be recognized as a cosmopolitical practice—in the sense introduced by Isabelle Stengers—in which what music is within a society depends on what kinds of access to vibration are permitted, and to whom. This politics of vibration constitutes the hidden ontology of contemporary music because the organization of vibration shapes individual music scenes as well as the ethical choices that participants in these scenes make about how they want to live in the world.
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