Belting, Florence and Baghdad
The use of perspective in Renaissance painting caused a revolution in the history of seeing, allowing artists to depict the world from a spectator’s point ...
Continue Reading →Basar, Coupland, Obrist, The Extreme Self
The Extreme Self is a new kind of graphic novel that shows how you’ve been morphing into something else. It’s about the re-making of your ...
Continue Reading →Suter, Parallel Encyclopedia
Batia Suter?s work intuitively situates found images in new contexts to provoke surprising reactions and significative possibilities. This volume follows on from the first?Parallel Encyclopedia?, ...
Continue Reading →Hamacher, Minima Philologica
Minima Philologica brings together two essays by Werner Hamacher that are meant to revitalize philology as a practice beyond its restriction to the restoration of ...
Continue Reading →McEwen, Anaximander and the Articulation of Order
Anaximander was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher who lived in Miletus, a city of Ionia (in modern-day Turkey). He belonged to the Milesian school and learned ...
Continue Reading →Marinetti, The Futurist Cookbook
Both madcap cookbook and manifesto on Futurism, Marinetti’s exuberant and entertaining book has been described as one of ‘the best artistic jokes of the century’No ...
Continue Reading →Crowley, Ancient Rhetorics for Contemporary Students
‘Ancient Rhetorics for Contemporary Students’ revives the classical strategies of ancient Greek and Roman rhetoricians and adapts them to the needs of contemporary writers and ...
Continue Reading →Connor, Dumbstruck: A Cultural History of Ventriloquism
Ventriloquism, the art of seeming to speak where one is not, speaks so resonantly to our contemporary technological condition. We now think nothing of hearing ...
Continue Reading →Foucault, The Order of Discourse
Discourse, as defined by Foucault, refers to: ways of constituting knowledge, together with the social practices, forms of subjectivity and power relations which inhere in ...
Continue Reading →Clement, “The Planetary Garden” and Other Writings
Celebrated landscape architect Gilles Clément may be best known for his public parks in Paris, including the Parc André Citroën and the garden of the ...
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