2011 | Dec 31
Spinoza on Falsity
“Contrary to most philosophy, which struggles to arrive at truth and yield access to true ...”
| Nov 05
Spinoza’s Panpsychism
“What is to be understood here concerning the stone should be understood concerning any singular ...”
1 comments | Oct | Sep 06
The Black Box in the White Cube: Lyotard's Les Immatériaux as Machinic Theater
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The 1960s and 1970s mark the first time contemporary art opposed modernist art. Formalist strategies ...”
2 comments | Aug 31
Borromini's Bricks: Matters of Immanence in the Roman Oratory
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And if you think of Brick, for instance, and you say to Brick, "What do ...”
| Jul | Jun 01
James Stirling and the Post-War Crisis of Movement: An Architectural Model of the Smooth and the Striated
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Gilles Deleuze transitions between the two volumes of his cinema project by identifying a crisis ...”
| May 24
Spaces in Becoming: Jacques Rancière and Pedro Costa
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In The Emancipated Spectator, Jacques Rancière challenges traditional theatrical and conceptual binaries separating spectator and ...”
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In the Metal and in the Flesh: The Materiality and Individuation of Information through Architecture
“The order and connection of ideas is the same as the order and connection of ...”
| Apr 14
Spaces in Becoming: Heterotopias, the Smooth and the Striated)
“In Plateau 14 of A Thousand Plateaus, dated 1440 and titled “The Smooth and the ...”
| Mar 18
Architecture between East and West: The Emergent Practices of Arbeitsgruppe 4 in Cold War Austria
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The Third Man immortalized post-war Vienna, creating the architectural images ...”
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Spaces in Becoming: Rhizome
“In “Rhizome,” their introduction to A Thousand Plateaus, Deleuze and Guattari supplants arborescent and fascicular ...”
| Feb 11 01
Stan VanDerBeek: The Culture Intercom
“Stan VanDerBeek: The Culture Intercom at the MIT List Visual Arts Center from February 4 ...”
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Simulacrum in the Tableaux Vivants of Thomas Demand
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How the ‘True World’ Ultimately Became a Fable:
Simulacrum in the Tableaux Vivants of Thomas Demand
Friedrich ...”
2 comments | Nov | Oct | Sep 04
The Wilderness Downtown and The Poetics of Space
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I just discovered "The Wilderness Downtown", an interactive video for Arcade Fire’s “We Used to ...”
| Aug 23
James Corner on Duration
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Inhabitat interviewed James Corner recently regarding his (and Diller Scofidio + Renfro's) High Line project. ...”
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Latour on Compositionism
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Critique has become passé, but a perennial issue has become with what (if anything) to ...”
05 | Jul 24
Lebbeus Woods on the Ineffable
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In ...”
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On the Death and Life of Cities
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Only by enlisting the movements of a building and accounting carefully for its “tribulations” would ...”
| Jun 27
Stupid, but not that Stupid: Unknown Unknowns and the Outside of Thought
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Errol Morris has written an essay, "The Anosognosic’s Dilemma: Something’s Wrong but You’ll Never Know ...”
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David Byrne on Architecture and Musical Evolution
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David Byrne recently (I'm not sure how recently, but the video is new to me) ...”
| May 26
The Preservation of Banksy
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There is a degree of insomnia, of rumination, of the historical sense, through which something ...”
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David Lynch’s "Lady Blue Shanghai"
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David Lynch’s latest film, "Lady Blue Shanghai", is a 16-minute advertisement for Dior. Apparently Lynch ...”
| Apr 28
R&Sie(n) on Stuttering
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On its “New Territories” blog, R&Sie(n) just published, “Stuttering,” the transcript of a recent dialogue ...”
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R&Sie(n) on Unknow
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At the "New Territories" blog, R&Sie(n) posted "Unknow," a video featuring the firm’s andgrogynous spokesperson. ...”
22 | Mar | Feb | Jan | 2009 | Dec 31
It Beats Pickin' Cotton and Waitin' to be Forgotten
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Thanks to that rather unnecessary cinematic sequel, the dawn of 2010 should make the present ...”
| Nov 30
The Ethics of Dust as Sheets of the Past
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"You may at least earnestly believe, that the presence of the spirit which culminates ...”
| Oct 12
The Limits of Control as Machinic Opera
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If a quality has motifs and counterpoints, if there are rhythmic characters and melodic landscapes ...”
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