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This, the first of three volumes of Susan Sontag's journals and notebooks, begins with journal entries and early attempts at fiction from her years as a university and graduate student, and ends in 1964, when she was becoming a participant in and observer of the artistic and intellectual life of New York City.
Susan Sontag: reborn, journals & notebooks 1947 - 1963
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This, the first of three volumes of Susan Sontag's journals and notebooks, begins with journal entries and early attempts at fiction from her years as a university and graduate student, and ends in 1964, when she was becoming a participant in and observer of the artistic and intellectual life of New York City.
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Against interpretation
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Against interpretation is a selection from Susan Sontag's early writings about the arts and contemporary culture. The book quickly became a modern classic and has had enormous influence here and abroad. As well as the title essay, 'On Style', and the famous 'Notes on Camp', the book includes discussions of such figures as Sartre, Simone Weil, Georg lukacs, Lévi-Strass,(...)
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Against interpretation is a selection from Susan Sontag's early writings about the arts and contemporary culture. The book quickly became a modern classic and has had enormous influence here and abroad. As well as the title essay, 'On Style', and the famous 'Notes on Camp', the book includes discussions of such figures as Sartre, Simone Weil, Georg lukacs, Lévi-Strass, Artaud, Genet, Brecht, Beckett, Bresson and Godard.
Théorie de l’art
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In Concrete Reveries, acclaimed philosopher and cultural critic Mark Kingwell offers a thoughtful answer to Socrates' injunction about the life worth living, using the urban experience to illustrate the dynamic between concreteness and abstraction that operates within us. Witty and authoritative, the book is an exhilarating journey through unexpected terrain. Mark(...)
Théorie de l’urbanisme
mars 2008, Toronto, New York, London
Concrete Reveries : consciousness and the city
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In Concrete Reveries, acclaimed philosopher and cultural critic Mark Kingwell offers a thoughtful answer to Socrates' injunction about the life worth living, using the urban experience to illustrate the dynamic between concreteness and abstraction that operates within us. Witty and authoritative, the book is an exhilarating journey through unexpected terrain. Mark Kingwell is professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto, a contributing editor to Harper's Magazine, and the author of 10 books. He lectures frequently about design and architecture to academic and popular audiences throughout the world.
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Under Pressure gathers together the contributions to the same-titled conference held at the "Institut fuer Kunstkritik from 2006 to 2007". Can "exit" and "disobedience", as envisioned by Virno, be considered as options from an artistic point of view? And what would an insistence on "status" or long-term projects as invoked by Boltanski/Chiapello look like if artists(...)
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janvier 1900, Berlin, New York
Under pressure : pictures, subjects, and the new spirit of capitalism
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Under Pressure gathers together the contributions to the same-titled conference held at the "Institut fuer Kunstkritik from 2006 to 2007". Can "exit" and "disobedience", as envisioned by Virno, be considered as options from an artistic point of view? And what would an insistence on "status" or long-term projects as invoked by Boltanski/Chiapello look like if artists were to take on this strategy? How much can one count on pictures alone, as Mitchell seems to do? And, can pictures really change the "ways of worldmaking"?
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Avec le temps, la colonne est devenue l'élément emblématique de l'architecture. Souvent perçue comme le symbole révolu d'une culture académique, elle continue pourtant à exister dans l'architecture contemporaine, essentiellement sous la forme du segment vertical d'une structure complexe visant à libérer le plan. Ce recueil d'essais propose une vision de cet élément à(...)
La colonne Nouvelle Histoire de la construction
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Avec le temps, la colonne est devenue l'élément emblématique de l'architecture. Souvent perçue comme le symbole révolu d'une culture académique, elle continue pourtant à exister dans l'architecture contemporaine, essentiellement sous la forme du segment vertical d'une structure complexe visant à libérer le plan. Ce recueil d'essais propose une vision de cet élément à travers les siècles sous un angle qui privilégie l'analyse, la construction, le matériau, la technique. Il plaide pour une histoire de l'architecture réintégrant les contributions décisives des savants et des mathématiciens. Il veut être aussi le point de départ d'une collection d'ouvrages qui vise à décomposer l'architecture en éléments, pour parvenir à constituer une nouvelle histoire de la construction, à la fois technique et théorique, intéressant étudiants, architectes et ingénieurs.
Théorie de l’architecture
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What do phenomena like sprawl, generic city or urban segregation have in common with the concept of the city? This is not an easy question. It is nevertheless the inquiry this book is based on, mainly because of the bewilderment we feel when faced with these phenomena that are spread throughout the urban world and constitute a tall order for our concepts of the city.(...)
Fundamental Trends in City Development
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What do phenomena like sprawl, generic city or urban segregation have in common with the concept of the city? This is not an easy question. It is nevertheless the inquiry this book is based on, mainly because of the bewilderment we feel when faced with these phenomena that are spread throughout the urban world and constitute a tall order for our concepts of the city. Expressions like discomposed city, generic city and segregated city refer to entities that share the loss of the city as a space of communication and social interaction and as the space of the public sphere. In order to explore what we call the city adrift, certain positions of scholars of the city are analysed, using the utopia as an analytical category and referring to three kinds the conservative utopia, liquidatory utopia and resistant utopia which can perhaps significantly distinguish the different positions on current spatial trends of the city and, more generally, the phenomena emerging in the urban world. This book investigates how the city can be re-established as the space of dialogue and communication, how the spatial conditions of the public sphere can be created and the city retrieved, and what the features might be of a city retrieved and restored to its citizens. The author adopts the concept of externity as an innovative element for the project for the city, a constituent feature of all those situations traditionally considered non-functional, therefore external, to our contemporary post-cities, which are consigned to us adrift through decomposition, genericity and segregation.
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décembre 2007
Théorie de l’urbanisme
Instant cities
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A major new volume that explores and assesses the phenomenon of the contemporary metropolis. With building space throughout the world at a premium and environmentally-sound development of tremendous importance to the future of the planet, Instant Cities looks ahead to creative, forward-thinking and possibly fanciful notions of the city such as biospheres, space stations(...)
Instant cities
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A major new volume that explores and assesses the phenomenon of the contemporary metropolis. With building space throughout the world at a premium and environmentally-sound development of tremendous importance to the future of the planet, Instant Cities looks ahead to creative, forward-thinking and possibly fanciful notions of the city such as biospheres, space stations and virtual realities.
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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.
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Stadtraum urban space
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German/English reprint of the 1979 publication. This book argues that in our modern cities we have lost sight of the traditional understanding of urban spaces. What has to be clearly defined is what should be understood by the term 'urban space' and what meaning it holds within the urban structure, so that we can go on to examine whether the concept of urban space retains(...)
Stadtraum urban space
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German/English reprint of the 1979 publication. This book argues that in our modern cities we have lost sight of the traditional understanding of urban spaces. What has to be clearly defined is what should be understood by the term 'urban space' and what meaning it holds within the urban structure, so that we can go on to examine whether the concept of urban space retains some validity in contemporary town planning and on what grounds. 'Space' in this context is a hotly disputed concept. A new definition is not generated, but its original meaning is brought back into currency.
Théorie de l’urbanisme
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Avec Christopher Alexander, Brian Hanson, Michael Mehaffy, Terry M. Mikiten. "Le roi est nu": ce vieil adage est définitivement approprié au triste cas du déconstructivisme, car ce dernier n’est rien d’autre qu’un modernisme déguisé sous une autre forme. Les modernistes, notamment ceux du Bauhaus, voulaient la table rase ; se débarrasser de tout l’existant, tout en(...)
Anti-architecture et déconstruction
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Avec Christopher Alexander, Brian Hanson, Michael Mehaffy, Terry M. Mikiten. "Le roi est nu": ce vieil adage est définitivement approprié au triste cas du déconstructivisme, car ce dernier n’est rien d’autre qu’un modernisme déguisé sous une autre forme. Les modernistes, notamment ceux du Bauhaus, voulaient la table rase ; se débarrasser de tout l’existant, tout en revendiquant cependant certains liens avec le passé : le Parthénon (Jeanneret-Gris, alias Le Corbusier, etc.), le mouvement anglais Arts and Crafts (Pevsner, etc.) et le néoclassicisme prussien (Mies Van der Rohe), afin de donner une fausse parenté historique à leurs fins et à leurs créations. Aujourd’hui, ce sont les architectes déconstructivistes et leurs supporters qui se réclament de toutes sortes de liens et de précédents fumeux pour soutenir leurs travaux.
Théorie de l’architecture