Rethinking Architecture| A reader in cultural theory

make a living, which makes no sense (ne rime à rien). The birth of individualities amid dispersion, as Marx said, of singulariti ...

dissipated, the fury? That is not a member of the domestic organism, that is banished into its entrails. Even more than the city ...

At any rate, it is only for the last of men, the nihilist, that the disaster of the domus and the rise of the megalopolis to the ...

communicable way. Make culture. Not think according to the welcome of what comes about, singularly. To pre-vent it, rather. To s ...

megalopolis displays, commentates on them, and explains them, makes them communicable. It calls melancholy being autistic and lo ...

the domus. Whence the exceptional tenacity, which arose from the (artificial) reconstitution of flesh. Does that remain a consta ...

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PART V POSTSTRUCTURALISM ...

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POSTSTRUCTURALISM Poststructuralism refers to an inter-disciplinary movement popular from the late 1970s, which could be seen as ...

Andrew Benjamin Australian Andrew Benjamin (b. 1952) is one of relatively few philosophers from the English speaking world who h ...

houses, fails in a concrete, philosophical and political sense to address housing. Equally the interplay between architecture an ...

there is not usually so much perfection in works composed of several parts and produced by various different craftsmen as in the ...

architecture and philosophy, of the subject, and thus of subjectivism. Cartesianism is the emergence of the centrality of the su ...

specific process: one marked by an origin, a goal and a creator. This is not, however, the only way in which teleology figures w ...

refusal of dominance still has to house what had hitherto dominated. The architectural question, even within philosophy, can nev ...

second emerges from the consideration of what is to be understood by philosophy both within the terms set by tradition and, in a ...

architectural, that were, by definition, not sanctioned by tradition, are no longer in place. Their displacement means that the ...

The plurality and affirmation of heterogeneity that marks the refusal of tradition cannot be reduced to a simple negativity. Neg ...

while a house today must still shelter, it does not need to symbolise or romanticise its sheltering function, to the contrary su ...