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First published in 1967, Guy Debord's stinging revolutionary critique of contemporary society, The Society of the Spectacle has since acquired a cult status. Credited by many as being the inspiration for the ideas generated by the events of May 1968 in France, Debord's pitiless attack on commodity fetishism and its incrustation in the practices of everyday life continues(...)
Comments on the society of the spectacle
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First published in 1967, Guy Debord's stinging revolutionary critique of contemporary society, The Society of the Spectacle has since acquired a cult status. Credited by many as being the inspiration for the ideas generated by the events of May 1968 in France, Debord's pitiless attack on commodity fetishism and its incrustation in the practices of everyday life continues to burn brightly in today's age of satellite television and the soundbite. In Comments on the Society of the Spectacle, published twenty years later, Debord returned to the themes of his previous analysis and demonstrated how they were all the more relevant in a period when the integrated spectacle was dominant. Resolutely refusing to be reconciled to the system, Debord trenchantly slices through the doxa and mystification offered tip by journalists and pundits to show how aspects of reality as diverse as terrorism and the environment, the Mafia and the media, were caught up in the logic of the spectacular society. Pointing the finger clearly at those who benefit from the logic of domination, Debord's comments convey the revolutionary impulse at the heart of situationism.
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The Panopticon writings
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The Panopticon project for a model prison obsessed the English philosopher Jeremy Bentham for almost 20 years. In the end, the project came to nothing; the Panopticon was never built. But it is precisely this that makes the Panopticon project the best exemplification of Bentham's own theory of fictions, according to which non-existent fictitious entities can have all too(...)
The Panopticon writings
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The Panopticon project for a model prison obsessed the English philosopher Jeremy Bentham for almost 20 years. In the end, the project came to nothing; the Panopticon was never built. But it is precisely this that makes the Panopticon project the best exemplification of Bentham's own theory of fictions, according to which non-existent fictitious entities can have all too real effects. There is probably no building that has stirred more philosophical controversy than Bentham's Panopticon. It is not merely, as Foucault thought, "a cruel, ingenious cage", in which subjects collaborate in their own subjection, but much more - constructing the Panopticon produces not only a prison, but also a god within it. It is a machine which on assembly is already inhabited by a ghost. It is through the Panopticon and the closely related theory of fictions that Bentham has made his greatest impact on modern thought; above all, on the theory of power.
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janvier 2011
Théorie/ philosophie
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This publication elaborates a dialectics of modernity, eternity and tradition
The politics of time: modernity and avant-garde
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This publication elaborates a dialectics of modernity, eternity and tradition
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This publication contests the tendency, still dominant in most social science, to reduce human geography to a reflective mirror, or, as Marx called it, an "unnecessary complication." Beginning with a critique of historicism and its constraining effects on the geographical imagination, Edward Soja builds on the work of Foucault, Berger, Giddens, Berman, Jameson and, above(...)
Postmodern geographies: the reassertion of space in critical social theory
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This publication contests the tendency, still dominant in most social science, to reduce human geography to a reflective mirror, or, as Marx called it, an "unnecessary complication." Beginning with a critique of historicism and its constraining effects on the geographical imagination, Edward Soja builds on the work of Foucault, Berger, Giddens, Berman, Jameson and, above all, Henri Lefebvre, to argue for a historical and geographical materialism, a radical rethinking of the dialectics of space, time and social being. The author charts the respatialization of social theory from the still unfolding encounter between Western Marxism and modern geography, through the current debates on the emergence of a postfordist regime of "flexible accumulation." The postmodern geography of Los Angeles, exposed in a provocative pair of essays, serves as a model in his account of the contemporary struggle for control over the social production of space.
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Durant plus de cinquante ans, Helen Levitt (1913-2009) a photographié essentiellement à New York les rues des quartiers populaires. Ses images montrent, avant tout, des moments fugitifs et ordinaires, des regards, des gestes qu’expriment par excellence les jeux et les dessins d’enfants. Le livre, outre des images de Mexico en 1941, réunit le travail à New York en noir et(...)
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Helen Levitt: Un lyrisme urbain
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Durant plus de cinquante ans, Helen Levitt (1913-2009) a photographié essentiellement à New York les rues des quartiers populaires. Ses images montrent, avant tout, des moments fugitifs et ordinaires, des regards, des gestes qu’expriment par excellence les jeux et les dessins d’enfants. Le livre, outre des images de Mexico en 1941, réunit le travail à New York en noir et blanc dans les années 1930-40, puis en couleur à partir de 1959.
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Ville durable et écoquartier
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Ce guide pratique parle de la ville. Durable forcément, car on ne bâtit pas du temporaire quand on construit une ville, mais durable au sens « qui tient compte des enjeux du développement durable », une ville du XXIe siècle, des quartiers innovants, des quartiers écologiques, des éco-quartiers. Il s’adresse aux personnes concernées par la conception des villes, les élus(...)
Ville durable et écoquartier
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Ce guide pratique parle de la ville. Durable forcément, car on ne bâtit pas du temporaire quand on construit une ville, mais durable au sens « qui tient compte des enjeux du développement durable », une ville du XXIe siècle, des quartiers innovants, des quartiers écologiques, des éco-quartiers. Il s’adresse aux personnes concernées par la conception des villes, les élus au premier plan. L’objectif de cet ouvrage est double : comprendre et agir. Comprendre autant les thématiques elles-mêmes que leurs interactions, s’approprier un vocabulaire, des notions pour agir, c'est-à-dire être capable d’impulser des projets… en connaissance de cause. Pour aborder la « ville durable », nous avons souhaité non pas rédiger un mode d’emploi de l’éco-quartier emblématique mais plutôt aborder l’ensemble des notions-clés de ce qui fait la ville, de ce qui peut la rendre « éco », les points de vigilance et les ressources disponibles. Ce guide constitue un travail collectif et fait appel à des spécialistes reconnus et à des élus impliqués. Il renvoie à des lectures plus approfondies sur plusieurs sujets et permet de comprendre le vocabulaire et dialoguer avec les experts.
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Morphosis: Recent project
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Projects include the Giant Group Campus in Shanghai, The Phare Tower at La Défense in Paris, the Perot Museum of Nature & Science in Dallas, the Kuala Lumpur Towers in Kuala Lumpur, the new U.S. Embassy in London, the Emerson College at the Los Angeles Center, the New Orleans National Jazz, the Taipei Pop Music Center, the Seoul Performing Arts Center, the King Abdullah(...)
Morphosis: Recent project
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Projects include the Giant Group Campus in Shanghai, The Phare Tower at La Défense in Paris, the Perot Museum of Nature & Science in Dallas, the Kuala Lumpur Towers in Kuala Lumpur, the new U.S. Embassy in London, the Emerson College at the Los Angeles Center, the New Orleans National Jazz, the Taipei Pop Music Center, the Seoul Performing Arts Center, the King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center in Riyadh. Also includes an interview with Thom Mayne from Morphosis.
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Les sept études de cette publication prétendent montrer et étudier la condition du legs architectural grec dans l'époque moderne. Elles s'attachent à quelques réalisations, projets et traités choisis d'après leurs vertus exemplaires: ceux de Palladio, J. Peret, F. Blondel, Fischer von Erlach et Napoli.
Réflexions sur l'architecture
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Les sept études de cette publication prétendent montrer et étudier la condition du legs architectural grec dans l'époque moderne. Elles s'attachent à quelques réalisations, projets et traités choisis d'après leurs vertus exemplaires: ceux de Palladio, J. Peret, F. Blondel, Fischer von Erlach et Napoli.
Théorie de l’architecture
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Their work as planners and teachers is clear in their approach, where a rigorous planning process accompanies an experimental attitude to materials and structural solutions. With photography that matches the firm's clean, restful aesthetic, the 20 mostly small-scale, residential projects featured here reveal the practice's blend of technology and tradition, and the formal(...)
darco 15: Bearth & Deplazes architects
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Their work as planners and teachers is clear in their approach, where a rigorous planning process accompanies an experimental attitude to materials and structural solutions. With photography that matches the firm's clean, restful aesthetic, the 20 mostly small-scale, residential projects featured here reveal the practice's blend of technology and tradition, and the formal clarity and economy they bring to inaccessible mountain sites, rich in natural grandeur and vernacular architectural tradition.
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darco 16: Fransisco Mangado
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Mangado's designs share many elements, such as an urban setting, technological innovation, and responsive choices of materials. But alongside these is a rigorous intention to ‘reconsider more intelligent and responsible objectives’ for architecture. Today Mangado advocates designing and building ethically, urging a move away from the display and spectacle that he helped(...)
darco 16: Fransisco Mangado
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Mangado's designs share many elements, such as an urban setting, technological innovation, and responsive choices of materials. But alongside these is a rigorous intention to ‘reconsider more intelligent and responsible objectives’ for architecture. Today Mangado advocates designing and building ethically, urging a move away from the display and spectacle that he helped to pioneer, and which he now feels has become insubstantial.
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