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Questionnant les grandes théories critiques (Marx, Ernst Bloch, Guy Debord), s’appuyant sur l’anthropologie, poussant des incursions du côté de la philosophie (Aristote, Agamben, Simondon), invoquant après les romantiques et les surréalistes la fonction vitale de l’imagination créatrice, « L’Homme sans horizon » dessine les lignes de fuite qui permettent de rouvrir un(...)
L'homme sans horizon, matériaux pour l'utopie
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Questionnant les grandes théories critiques (Marx, Ernst Bloch, Guy Debord), s’appuyant sur l’anthropologie, poussant des incursions du côté de la philosophie (Aristote, Agamben, Simondon), invoquant après les romantiques et les surréalistes la fonction vitale de l’imagination créatrice, « L’Homme sans horizon » dessine les lignes de fuite qui permettent de rouvrir un horizon utopique. Au-delà de l’utopie libérale, aujourd’hui épuisée, de l’utopie sociale qui a été défigurée par les régimes totalitaires, la seule issue possible est de reprendre et faire triompher le rêve ancestral de société sans classe ni État. Aujourd’hui où la survie de l’espèce est en jeu, c’est cette espérance qu’il s’agit de réaliser sous peine de voir l’humanité s’effondrer dans la barbarie.
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La liberté de l'esprit
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La liberté de l'esprit succède à La crise de l'esprit qui constatait la faillite de l'Europe après la grande guerre. Vingt plus tard, posant un regard lucide sur les mutations qui secouent son époque, Valéry dissèque le monde actuel, relevant, non sans pessimisme, les accrocs de la modernité à la dignité de l'esprit. La critique qu'adresse le poète à la modernité et à ce(...)
La liberté de l'esprit
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La liberté de l'esprit succède à La crise de l'esprit qui constatait la faillite de l'Europe après la grande guerre. Vingt plus tard, posant un regard lucide sur les mutations qui secouent son époque, Valéry dissèque le monde actuel, relevant, non sans pessimisme, les accrocs de la modernité à la dignité de l'esprit. La critique qu'adresse le poète à la modernité et à ce qui la constitue essentiellement : une modification du rapport au temps, une baisse de la valeur de l'Esprit et un assujettissement de l'homme à l'argent. Les essais ici publiés sont éloquents à cet égard. Pour Valéry, c'est la fin du temps libre, ce temps où l'esprit se consacre à son propre développement par la fréquentation de l'art, de la philosophie, de la littérature.
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Visions and ecstasies
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While H.D. is best known for her elemental poetry, which draws heavily on the imagery of natural and ancient worlds, her critical writings remain a largely underexplored and unpublished part of her oeuvre. Crucial to understanding both the formative contexts surrounding her departure from Imagism following the First World War and her own remarkable creative vision, "Notes(...)
Visions and ecstasies
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While H.D. is best known for her elemental poetry, which draws heavily on the imagery of natural and ancient worlds, her critical writings remain a largely underexplored and unpublished part of her oeuvre. Crucial to understanding both the formative contexts surrounding her departure from Imagism following the First World War and her own remarkable creative vision, "Notes on Thought and Vision," written in 1918, is one of the central works in this collection. H.D. guides her reader to the untamed shores of the Scilly Isles, where we hear of powerful, transformative experiences and of her intense relationship with the paintings of Leonardo da Vinci. The accompanying essays, many published here for the first time, help colour H.D.’s astute critical engagement with the past, from the city of Athens and the poetry of ancient Greece. Like Letters to a Young Painter (2017), also published in the ekphrasis series, this collection is essential reading for anyone interested in the creative process.
Théorie de l’art
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The codpiece was fashioned in the Middle Ages to close a revealing gap between two separate pieces of men’s tights. By the sixteenth century, it had become an upscale must-have accessory. This lighthearted, illustrated examination of its history pulls in writers from Rabelais to Shakespeare and figures from Henry VIII to Alice Cooper. Glover’s witty and entertaining prose(...)
Thrust: A spasmodic pictorial history of the codpiece in art
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The codpiece was fashioned in the Middle Ages to close a revealing gap between two separate pieces of men’s tights. By the sixteenth century, it had become an upscale must-have accessory. This lighthearted, illustrated examination of its history pulls in writers from Rabelais to Shakespeare and figures from Henry VIII to Alice Cooper. Glover’s witty and entertaining prose reveals how male vanity turned a piece of cloth into a bulging and absurd representation of masculinity itself. The codpiece, painted again and again by masters such as Titian, Holbein, Giorgione, and Bruegel, became a symbol of royalty, debauchery, virility, and religious seriousness—all in one. The first history of its kind, this book is a must-read for art historians, anthropologists, fashion aficionados, and readers looking for a good, long laugh.
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Architecture in effect. Vol.1: rethinking the social in architecture. Vol.2: After effects: theories
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The socially oriented perspective of Volume #1, 'Rethinking the Social', is complemented by discussions of architectural and transdisciplinary theories and methodologies in Volume #2, 'After Effects'. Together these twin volumes reflect on topics such as the utopian idea of a welfare state, the role of intersubjective and non-human points of view, and the impact of(...)
Théorie de l’architecture
novembre 2020
Architecture in effect. Vol.1: rethinking the social in architecture. Vol.2: After effects: theories
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The socially oriented perspective of Volume #1, 'Rethinking the Social', is complemented by discussions of architectural and transdisciplinary theories and methodologies in Volume #2, 'After Effects'. Together these twin volumes reflect on topics such as the utopian idea of a welfare state, the role of intersubjective and non-human points of view, and the impact of historical and current images on the making of realities. The task of these books is to present a wide range of research topics that combine historical, material, and critical research approaches that respond to our current crises and challenges. Ultimately, this enables new modes of knowledge production within architecture to be advanced in its relation to societal transformation.
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Architecture as measure
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In light of the current political crisis around climate change, what can architecture possibly contribute towards a new planetary imaginary of our contemporary environment beyond environmentalism and technological determinism? Instead of conceptualizing the idea of the environment as purely natural and in need of protection, as solely a problem that needs to be managed,(...)
Architecture as measure
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In light of the current political crisis around climate change, what can architecture possibly contribute towards a new planetary imaginary of our contemporary environment beyond environmentalism and technological determinism? Instead of conceptualizing the idea of the environment as purely natural and in need of protection, as solely a problem that needs to be managed, or merely as the Earth, which limits the scope with a scalar bias, can we speculate on architecture as a measure both to assess and to act upon the world? Architecture as Measure is an elaboration on this question, and on the disciplinary and cultural potentials of such a provocation. It positions climate change as a cultural and political idea that requires a renewed architectural environmental imagination.
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Part aphorism and part manifesto, this book by Canadian architect Reza Aliabadi (RZLBD) references his ideas and thoughts about space. He suggests ‘the empty room’ as the very essence of architecture, and ‘the spatial experience’ as its highest mandate. Reza revisits architecture –not as the walls that enclose the space– but rather the space in-between the walls. What he(...)
Reza Aliabadi:The empty room, fragmented thoughts on space
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Part aphorism and part manifesto, this book by Canadian architect Reza Aliabadi (RZLBD) references his ideas and thoughts about space. He suggests ‘the empty room’ as the very essence of architecture, and ‘the spatial experience’ as its highest mandate. Reza revisits architecture –not as the walls that enclose the space– but rather the space in-between the walls. What he calls an “anti-architecture” of invisible voids. As Kahn always said: “Architecture comes from the making of a room”. This book starts with this, the very desire to dwell in a space in its most basic form — a room. Through short passages and aphorisms, this text revisits space as the only protagonist, the very foundation, and the sole essence of architecture. It affects your perception of space, it makes you to look at architecture differently — most likely to see the invisible.
Théorie de l’architecture
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Inner Space is part of an ongoing research project into the construction of the architectural imagination. It sets out to investigate the space between the inner and outer realities, a space that could be inhabited and explored in itself, looking for those moments in which the two realms interact most vividly. Besides, it also identifies two parallel and strictly(...)
Théorie de l’architecture
novembre 2019
Inner space. Poetics of Reason, Lisbon Architecture Triennale
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Inner Space is part of an ongoing research project into the construction of the architectural imagination. It sets out to investigate the space between the inner and outer realities, a space that could be inhabited and explored in itself, looking for those moments in which the two realms interact most vividly. Besides, it also identifies two parallel and strictly intertwined movements intervening in the construction of architectural imagination: a collective one and an individual one, two spheres complementing each other. The aim is to identify imagination as an immersive territory that can be experienced, crossed and even inhabited, defined as a human ability which partly relies on a collective process.
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The publication takes the form of a series of statements on architecture, construction, rationality and photography as well as it proceeds as a photographic essay that gathers side by side constructive forms.
Théorie de l’architecture
novembre 2019
Natural beauty. The Poetics of Reason, Lisbon Architecture Triennale
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The publication takes the form of a series of statements on architecture, construction, rationality and photography as well as it proceeds as a photographic essay that gathers side by side constructive forms.
Théorie de l’architecture
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Are metropolises really the “manifest destiny” of humankind? Is the environmental predicament calling for more concentration and incorporation? Or is it conducive to some kind of urban exodus? By and large, what might be the principles and ethics of design in such a condition? These are some of the issues that this book addresses.
Taking the country's side agriculture and architecture. Poetics of Reason, Lisbon Architecture Triennale
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Are metropolises really the “manifest destiny” of humankind? Is the environmental predicament calling for more concentration and incorporation? Or is it conducive to some kind of urban exodus? By and large, what might be the principles and ethics of design in such a condition? These are some of the issues that this book addresses.
Théorie de l’architecture