Rethinking Architecture| A reader in cultural theory

time the subversion of the centrality and dominance of aesthetic and evaluative universality. While the project as an object of ...

the case that Eisen-man’s work enacts, or is to be understood in terms of its enacting, a countering move, that is one where the ...

The problem of experience must continually traverse any attempt to dwell on or to present either modernism or the present. In or ...

This description needs to be read in relation to the already cited passage detailing the consequences of dining in House VI. The ...

that has already been noted. In the lines from Pope the sublime effect emerges only when the terror no longer dominates and is i ...

Eisenman’s work, the experience of that work, the philosophy demanded by it, opens up the need to think philosophically beyond t ...

21 The problem of the relationship between writings and buildings can be, at least in part, resolved by the recognition that Eis ...

Hélène Cixous Hélène Cixous (b. 1937) is a versatile French writer and critic who has worked in a variety of areas—fiction, thea ...

All is law. It’s because of desire. The law makes its nest in the peel of desire. Go on: you will not enter. If you did not desi ...

have never been there. But Trnava exists in the Atlas. At the time the border floated in the wind and you were one day Czech one ...

that day—because the play takes place at this very moment on the Old City Square. It was Sunday. Then, on the square, instead of ...

build hotels and churches on the dark lake of blood. All will end with the Castle. But this is a fable: and that is the Castle o ...

these crows: they caw like lions inside a minuscule square of sky just vertical to the minuscule hanky-full of dead people. The ...

Gilles Deleuze French philosopher Gilles Deleuze (1925–95) has enjoyed a reputation as one of the most innovatory thinkers in an ...

POSTSCRIPT ON THE SOCIETIES OF CONTROL HISTORICAL Foucault located the disciplinary societies in the eighteenth and nineteenth c ...

The different internments or spaces of enclosure through which the individual passes are independent variables: each time one is ...

is made of codes that mark access to information, or reject it. We no longer find ourselves dealing with the mass/individual pai ...

capitalism has retained as a constant the extreme poverty of three-quarters of humanity, too poor for debt, too numerous for con ...

power is thus a function of a threshold or degree beyond which what is conjured away ceases to be so and arrives. This threshold ...

over its relations with that remainder. The question is not to find out whether what is retained is natural or artificial (borde ...