Manouach, Engelhardt, Chimeras
This volume attempts to disassemble and reformulate what one might understand as AI by taking apart both notions of ‘artificiality’ and ‘intelligence’ and seeing what ...
Continue Reading →Langer, In the Name of the Image
The aesthetic and cultural intersections of Christian and Islamic art The overlap between art and religion represents one of humanity’s most fundamental driving forces: a ...
Continue Reading →Belting, Looking through Duchamp’s Door
In this new book by Hans Belting, three essays are united by one theme―the persistence of perspective after its supposed demise in the hands of ...
Continue Reading →Serres, Malfeasance
In this highly original and provocative book, Michel Serres reflects on the relation between nature and culture and analyzes the origins of the world’s contemporary ...
Continue Reading →Eisenman, Graves, Gwathmey, Hejduk, Meier, Five Architects
Five Architects, originally published in 1975, grew out of a meeting of the CASE group (Conference of Architects for the Study of the Environment) held ...
Continue Reading →Hasenfuss, Waiting for Hugentobler
Michael Hasenfuss, 1965 in Wuppertal (D) geboren, 1983 High School Diploma Lemoore California (USA), 1986 Abitur Wuppertal, 1986 – 1988 Zivildienst, 1988 – 1992 Hochschule ...
Continue Reading →Sloterdijk, Globes: Spheres Volume II: Macrospherology
The second, and longest, volume in Peter Sloterdijk’s celebrated Spheres trilogy, on the world history and philosophy of globalization. All history is the history of ...
Continue Reading →Sloterdijk, Foams: Spheres Volume III: Plural Spherology
The final volume in Peter Sloterdijk’s celebrated Spheres trilogy, on the phenomenology of community and its spatial peripheries. “So the One Orb has imploded—now the ...
Continue Reading →Kaufmann, Von Ledoux Bis Le Corbusier: Ursprung und Entwicklung der Autonomen Architektur
Emil Kaufmann (1891 in Vienna – 1953 in Cheyenne, Wyoming) was an Austrian art and architecture historian. He was the son of Max Kaufmann (died ...
Continue Reading →Preciado, Pornotopia: An Essay on Playboy’s Architecture and Biopolitics
Published for the first time in 1953, Playboy was not only the first pornographic popular magazine in America; it also came to embody an entirely ...
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