Rethinking Architecture| A reader in cultural theory

It is true that this is doubtless not my subject. I would rather speak of meetings, and of what a particular meeting means, what ...

After he had translated, or rather transferred and transformed, certain motifs appropriated by himself and for himself from my C ...

voices, at once different and harmonized in their very alterity. This comprises a gift as precious as it is petrified, a coral ( ...

same power: the dynamics of an immanent invention. Everything is found inside but it is almost unforeseeable. For my second exam ...

totalization, the still too-historical configuration, so that it would be open to a general decipherment. And nevertheless I tho ...

Figure 1 Sketch by Jacques Derrida for Choral Work project Source: G.Bennington and J.Derrida, Jacques Derrida, London, The Univ ...

in his languages, both architectural structure (a structure that is already quite fixed): that of a lyre, lying down at an obliq ...

labyrinth of this coral, the truth is the non-truth, the errance of one of those ‘errors’ which belong to the title of another l ...

enough space, I would analyse the stratagems with which Peter Eisenman plays, and what he has to do in his books, that is to say ...

NOTES 1 Desmond Lee (trans.), Plato, Timaeus and Critias. Middlesex, England and New York: Penguin Classics, 1971, p. 72, 52e–53 ...

Michel Foucault French philosopher Michel Foucault (1926–84) was concerned with examining the past as a means of diagnosing the ...

Gilles Deleuze has offered a provocative gloss on the subject of the panopticon in his article, ‘Postscripts on the Societies of ...

calculation in the memory of a machine; circulation of discrete elements to random outlets (automobiles, for instance, or even s ...

It would be equally possible to define, through its network of relations, the arrangements of rest, closed or partly open, that ...

places that are reserved for the individual who finds himself in a state of crisis with respect to the society or the environmen ...

nineteenth century on that the cemetery began to be shifted to the outskirts of the city. In parallel to this individualization ...

this belongs entirely to our modern outlook. Museums and libraries are heterotopias typical of nineteenth-century Western cultur ...

In a number of cases they have played, at the level of the general organization of terrestrial space, the genuine role of a hete ...

from one corpse to another, the ‘crows’, who can be left to die: these are ‘people of little substance who carry the sick, bury ...

This enclosed, segmented space, observed at every point, in which the individuals are inserted in a fixed place, in which the sl ...