Barthes, The Language of Fashion
Roland Barthes was one of the most widely influential thinkers of the 20th Century and his immensely popular and readable writings have covered ...
Continue Reading →Barthes, Mythologies
What is astrology? Fiction for the bourgeoisie. The Tour de France? An epic. The brain of Einstein? Knowledge reduced to a formula. Like ...
Continue Reading →- _English Language
- 1750-1850
- Architecture and Literature, Symbolism
- Art Theory
- Enlightenment Library
- Literary Theory
- Literature
Balzac, The Unknown Masterpiece
One of Honore de Balzac’s most celebrated tales, “The Unknown Masterpiece” is the story of a painter who, depending on one’s perspective, is ...
Continue Reading →Badiou, Number and Numbers
In Number and Numbers Alain Badiou offers an philosophically penetrating account with a powerful political subtext of the attempts that have been made ...
Continue Reading →Badiou, Mathematics of the Transcendent
In Mathematics of the Transcendental, Alain Badiou painstakingly works through the pertinent aspects of Category Theory, demonstrating their internal logic and veracity, their ...
Continue Reading →Ayache, The Blank Swan
October 19th 1987 was a day of huge change for the global finance industry. On this day the stock market crashed, the Nobel ...
Continue Reading →Austen, Pride and Prejudice
A perennial favorite in the Norton Critical Editions series. Pride and Prejudice is based on the 1813 first edition text, which has been ...
Continue Reading →Auge, The Future
For Marc Augé, best-selling author of Non-Places, the prevailing idea of “the Future” rests on our present fears of the contemporary world. It ...
Continue Reading →Asimov, I Robot
The three laws of Robotics: 1) A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come ...
Continue Reading →Arendt, The Human Condition
A work of striking originality bursting with unexpected insights, The Human Condition is in many respects more relevant now than when it first ...
Continue Reading →Most liked books
Tschumi, The Manhattan Transcripts
May 23, 2025
Tschumi, Red is not a Color
May 23, 2025Recent Comments
Categories
- _English Language 1454
- _French Language 55
- _German Language 69
- _Italian Language 54
- _Latin Language 45
- 1750-1850 64
- 17th Century 77
- 17th culture and other cities in Italy 5
- 19th century 45
- 20th Century 151
- 21th Century 75
- Aesthetics 5
- Afrofuturism 3
- Ancient Literature 37
- Anthropocene 1
- Anthropology 3
- Architectural Theory 228
- Architecture + Philosophy 37
- Architecture and Literature, Symbolism 36
- Art 13
- Art Theory 110
- Artificial Intelligence 11
- Artists in Rome 20
- Astronomy 2
- Autobiography 1
- Bernini 19
- Biology 5
- Catalogue 2
- Christian Iconography 18
- Christianity 13
- Cinema 2
- City 45
- Classical 1
- Construction 1
- Contemporary 2
- Design 29
- Digital Architectonics 26
- Drawings 41
- Economy 31
- Empire, Architecture + Catholicism 14
- England & British Isles 26
- Enlightenment Library 127
- Evolution 6
- Fashion 6
- Feminism 20
- Film Festival 1
- France 47
- Gender and Sexuality Studies 5
- Gothic 13
- Greek, Roman Library 99
- Historiography 43
- Humanism 12
- India 5
- Islam 5
- Italy 80
- Landscape Architecture 8
- LGBT 1
- Libraries 0
- Linguistics 6
- Literary Criticism 11
- Literary Theory 82
- Literature 95
- Low Countries (Benelux) 14
- Mathematics 61
- Medicine 4
- medieval library 38
- medieval literature 12
- Modern 51
- Monuments + Conservation 27
- Music Theory 1
- Mysticism 4
- Mythology 19
- Nature, Ecology, Animals 4
- Neurobiology 1
- Opera 5
- Philosophy 346
- Physics 16
- Poetry 6
- Politics 76
- Popes, Vatican, Rome 27
- Portrait, Sculpture, Materiality 56
- Post-Modern 22
- Programming 2
- Psychology 22
- Religion 23
- Renaissance 86
- Renaissance Library 80
- Rhetorics 1
- Roman Architecture 21
- Rome 122
- Schinkel 8
- Science 57
- Sociology 21
- Sound 7
- Sources 56
- Spain 10
- Switzerland 48
- Uncategorized 73
- Urbanism 53