Hollein, Alles ist Architektur
Hans Hollein (1934-2014) studierte in Wien, Chicago und Berkeley, unterrichtete an diversen internationalen Hochschulen und ist seit 1976 Professor an der Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst ...
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A generation after the publication of Joan W. Scott’s influential essay, “Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis,” this volume explores the current uses of ...
Continue Reading →Rosiak, Sheaf Theory through Examples
An approachable introduction to elementary sheaf theory and its applications beyond pure math. Sheaves are mathematical constructions concerned with passages from local properties to global ...
Continue Reading →Lautman, Mathematics Ideas and the Physical Real
Albert Lautman (1908-1944) was a French philosopher of mathematics whose work played a crucial role in the history of contemporary French philosophy. His ideas have ...
Continue Reading →Kornbluh, Immediacy or the Style of too late Capitalism
Why speed, flow, and direct expression now dominate cultural style Contemporary cultural style boosts transparency and instantaneity. These are values absorbed from our current economic ...
Continue Reading →De Graaf, Four Walls and a Roof
Four Walls and a Roof: The Complex Nature of a Simple Profession The book, published by Harvard University Press, consists of a collection of essays ...
Continue Reading →De Graaf, Architect; Verb
Leading architect Reinier de Graaf punctures the myths of contemporary architecture No longer does it suffice to judge a building solely by its appearance; it ...
Continue Reading →Butler, Who’s Afraid of Gender
From a global icon, a bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fueling reactionary politics around the world. Judith Butler, the groundbreaking ...
Continue Reading →Butler, Undoing Gender
“Undoing Gender” constitutes Judith Butler’s recent reflections on gender and sexuality, focusing on new kinship, psychoanalysis and the incest taboo, transgender, intersex, diagnostic categories, social ...
Continue Reading →Butler, The Psychic Life of Power
s a form of power, subjection is paradoxical. To be dominated by a power external to oneself is a familiar and agonizing form power takes. ...
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