Imaginaries On Matter

Author : Thomas Bo Jensen,Carolina Dayer,Jonathan Foote
Publisher : AADR – Art Architecture Design Research
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-21
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783887788452

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IMAGINARIES ON MATTER: TOOLS, MATERIALS, ORIGINS by Thomas Bo Jensen,Carolina Dayer,Jonathan Foote Pdf

Imaginaries on Matter – Tools, Materials, Origins, promotes an innovative architectural research agenda that connects historical-cultural written research with digitally led material explorations. The common thread is the notion of the material imagination, disclosed in the reverie, or material daydream, which challenges overly pragmatic or unreflective material choices within current architectural practice. In bonding our imagination directly with matter while also confronting new technologies, this book promotes strategies by which architects' and builders' future relations with materials can stay rooted within the deeper concerns of cultural meaning. Imaginaries on Matter includes interviews with Aulets Arquitectes, Alibi Studio, Ensamble Studio, Geometria, Helen & Hard, KieranTimberlake, Supermanoeuvre, and Vandkunsten, as well as a postscript by David Leatherbarrow. Edited by Thomas Bo Jensen, Carolina Dayer, Jonathan Foote

Author : Thomas Bo Jensen,Carolina Dayer,Foote Jonathan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3887786378

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Imaginaries on Matter by Thomas Bo Jensen,Carolina Dayer,Foote Jonathan Pdf

Author : Luis I. Prádanos
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781786941343

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Postgrowth Imaginaries by Luis I. Prádanos Pdf

Postgrowth Imaginaries brings together environmental cultural studies and postgrowth economics to examine counterhegemonic narratives and radical cultural shifts sparked by the global financial crisis of 2008. A number of critical voices worldwide have emphasized that in the context of a finite biosphere, constant economic growth is a biophysical impossibility. The problem is not a lack of growth but rather the globalization of an economic system addicted to constant growth, which destroys the ecological planetary systems that support life on Earth while failing to fulfil its social promises. Post-2008 Spain offers an optimal context to investigate these cultural processes, and this book demonstrates that a transition toward what Prádanos calls 'postgrowth imaginaries' - the counterhegemonic cultural sensibilities that are challenging the growth paradigm in manifold ways - is well underway in the Iberian Peninsula today. Specifically, this book explores how emerging cultural sensibilities in Spain - reflected in fiction and nonfiction writing and film, television programs, photographs and graphic novels, op-eds, web pages, political manifestos, and socioecological movements - are actively detaching themselves from the dominant imaginary of economic growth. By approaching the counterhegemonic cultures of the crisis though environmental criticism, Postgrowth Imaginaries uncovers a whole range of cultural nuances often ignored by Iberian cultural studies.

Author : Nabil Ahmed,Gavin Bridge,T. J. Demos,Timothy Morton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Art, Modern
ISBN : 3956790839

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World of Matter by Nabil Ahmed,Gavin Bridge,T. J. Demos,Timothy Morton Pdf

World of Matter is an international project investigating raw materials and the complex ecologies of which they are a part. In light of the acute problems resulting from human-induced transformation of the earth and its systems, it is tempting to strike a dramatic tone. However, the perspective of crisis also calls upon us to reconsider--at a fundamental level, and in slow, subtle, and unspectacular ways--how we understand and interact with the world of things. The investigations presented in this book, undertaken in many world regions and post-national spaces, propose a wide range of aesthetic and ethical approaches to the handling of resources, while challenging the capitalistic assumption that the planet's materials are primarily for human consumption. By drawing connections between works that derive from artistic practice, journalism, philosophy, activism, and other realms of research, World of Matter provides a place of commonality for eco-logical imaginaries. Copublished with Hartware MedienKunstVerein Contributors Nabil Ahmed, Inke Arns, Mabe Bethônico, Ursula Biemann, Gavin Bridge, Lonnie van Brummelen & Siebren de Haan, T. J. Demos, Elaine Gan, Uwe H. Martin & Frauke Huber, Peter Mörtenböck & Helge Mooshammer, Timothy Morton, Emily Eliza Scott, Paulo Tavares

Author : Laura Brown
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501772573

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The Counterhuman Imaginary by Laura Brown Pdf

The Counterhuman Imaginary proposes that alongside the historical, social, and institutional structures of human reality that seem to be the sole subject of the literary text, an other-than-human world is everywhere in evidence. Laura Brown finds that within eighteenth-century British literature, the human cultural imaginary can be seen, equally, as a counterhuman imaginary—an alternative realm whose scope and terms exceed human understanding or order. Through close readings of works by Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, and Alexander Pope, along with lapdog lyrics, circulation narratives that give agency to inanimate objects like coins and carriages, and poetry about the Lisbon earthquake of 1755, Brown traces the ways presence and power of the nonhuman—weather, natural disasters, animals, even the concept of love—not only influence human creativity, subjectivity, and history but are inseparable from them. Traversing literary theory, animal studies, new materialism, ecocriticism, and affect theory, The Counterhuman Imaginary offers an original repudiation of the centrality of the human to advance an integrative new methodology for reading chaos, fluidity, force, and impossibility in literary culture.

Author : Jiří Přibáň
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000456097

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Constitutional Imaginaries by Jiří Přibáň Pdf

This book offers a social theoretical analysis of imaginaries as constituent social forces of positive law and politics. Constitutional imaginaries invite constitutional and political theorists, philosophers and sociologists to rethink the concept of constitution as the normative legal limitation and control of political power. They show that political constitutions include societal forces impossible to contain by legal norms and political institutions. The constitution of society as one polity defined by the unity of topos-ethnos-nomos, that is the unity of territory, people and their laws, informed the rise of modern nations and nationalisms as much as constitutional democratic statehood and its liberal and republican regimes. However, the imaginary of polity as one nation living on a given territory under the constitutional rule of law is challenged by the process of European integration and its imaginaries informed by transnational legal and societal pluralism, administrative governance, economic performativity and democratically mobilised polity. This book discusses the sociology of imagined communities and the philosophy of modern social imaginaries in the context of transnational European constitutionalism and its recent theories, most notably the theory of societal constitutions. It offers a new approach to the legal constitutions as societal power formations evolving at national, European and global levels. The book will be of interest to scholars and students interested in constitutional and European law theory and philosophy as much as interdisciplinary and socio-legal studies of transnational law and society.

Author : Jeff Buckles
Publisher : Springer
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319744421

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Education, Sustainability and the Ecological Social Imaginary by Jeff Buckles Pdf

This book analyses the evidence for global change, and suggests that the Earth is going through a profound transformation, caused in large part by human action. Land, oceans, polar regions and the atmosphere are all being deeply affected by the human population's lifestyle: what should the educational response be to these various aspects of global change? To answer this, the values of an ecological response are developed, leading to the notion of an 'Ecological Social Imaginary', which looks at how humans can change their way of living to one that is more in harmony with the planet that they live on and depend upon. To enable this, an ecological form of education, Connective Education, is proposed. This focuses on how the human and natural world can be connected for the benefit of humankind and all living and non-living entities, joining head, hand, heart and spirit to the web of life. It is argued that through Connective Education, a particular type of person is formed: one who is able to take their place in the human and natural world, and in this way truly connect with their planet. The book will be essential reading for those working in the fields of Education and Environmental Studies.

Author : Jean-Paul Sartre,revised by Arlette Elkaim-Sartre
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2004-07-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134445028

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The Imaginary by Jean-Paul Sartre,revised by Arlette Elkaim-Sartre Pdf

First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Hans-Joachim Rudolph
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781468508437

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From Imaginary Oxymora to Real Polarities and Return by Hans-Joachim Rudolph Pdf

Professor Dhanjoo Ghista about the Book The author has done admirable work to develop the concept of Microvita and its synthesis, from the medieval question of whether there are 'universalia ante res' impinging on our destiny and fortune, to a model of the atomic nucleus, onto how Devayonis and Pretayonis can be produced pairwise or apart by the action of the neutral and the positive or negative creation operator respectively. Thereafter, we learn how imperialism, together with its different forms, such as capitalism and nationalism, all have one psychological base. This comes about through diminishing the interest for the sublime and enhancing the interest for material goods. Thereafter, we journey from Microvita network formation (clustering, representation, synchronisation and coherency), to Microvita in the context of the Neo-Leibnizian World Model and quantum monadology, whereby consciousness should not be interpreted by our daily experiences, but as an introspectively realized state. Finally, we recognize how Microvita give rise to what is known (in Sanskrit) as advaetadvaeta'dvaetava'da, meaning non-dualistic dualistic non-dualism: Non-dualism from dusk to dawn, dualism only in the daytime of existence.

Author : Paul C. Gutjahr
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781783087426

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'Voyage to the Moon' and Other Imaginary Lunar Flights of Fancy in Antebellum America by Paul C. Gutjahr Pdf

'Voyage to the Moon' And Other Imaginary Lunar Flights of Fancy in Antebellum America gathers for the first time in a scholarly critical edition four moon voyage stories published by Americans prior to the Civil War. Included in this volume are the works by George Tucker, Edgar Allan Poe, Richard Adams Locke and John Leonard Riddell. Along with a general introduction to the collection as a whole, each story has its own introductory material along with explanatory footnotes and appendixes to help identify the key points of its textual and cultural history.

Author : Marcia Jean Terpstra
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781728367279

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Imaginary Heart by Marcia Jean Terpstra Pdf

This book was conceived in me when I became aware that what I did or did not do with my body became more important to others than the heart that lived within me. I used the word imaginary in its title because it best described my unseen heart. The images in one’s mind far outweighed the reality of all the good that was truly in me. My greater goal for this book though, was to prove through God’s Word that there is a salvation in each and every one of us; no matter who we are, no matter what our walk. Each one of us is the “whosoever” that Jesus died for. And that this gift of salvation cannot be stolen nor stripped away from a single soul; no matter what! These are not my words. This is God’s promise. Just as you are! Just as I am!

Author : Suzi Adams ,Jeremy Smith
Publisher : Zeta Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9786066970013

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Social Imaginaries, Vol. 1, issue 1 (Spring 2015) by Suzi Adams ,Jeremy Smith Pdf

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Author : Peter Goodrich,Thanos Zartaloudis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000396904

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The Cabinet of Imaginary Laws by Peter Goodrich,Thanos Zartaloudis Pdf

Returning to the map of the island of utopia, this book provides a contemporary, inventive, addition to the long history of legal fictions and juristic phantasms. Progressive legal and political thinking has for long lacked a positive, let alone a bold imaginary project, an account of what improved institutions and an ameliorated environment would look like. And where better to start than with the non-laws or imaginary legislations of a realm yet to come. The Cabinet of Imaginary Laws is a collection of fictive contributions to the theme of conceiving imaginary laws in the vivid vein of jurisliterary invention. Disparate in style and diverse in genres of writing and performative expression, the celebrated and unknown, venerable and youthful authors write new laws. Thirty-five dissolute scholars, impecunious authors and dyspeptic artists from a variety of fields including law, film, science, history, philosophy, political science, aesthetics, architecture and the classics become, for a brief and inspiring instance, legislators of impossible norms. The collection provides an extra-ordinary range of inspired imaginings of other laws. This momentary community of radial thought conceives of a wild variety of novel critical perspectives. The contributions aim to inspire reflection on the role of imagination in the study and writing of law. Verse, collage, artworks, short stories, harangues, lists, and other pleas, reports and pronouncements revivify the sense of law as the vehicle of poetic justice and as an art that instructs and constructs life. Aimed at an intellectual audience disgruntled with the negativity of critique and the narrowness of the disciplines, this book will appeal especially to theorists, lawyers, scholars and a general public concerned with the future of decaying laws and an increasingly derelict legal system.

Author : Cornelius Castoriadis
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0262531550

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The Imaginary Institution of Society by Cornelius Castoriadis Pdf

This is one of the most original and important works of contemporaryEuropean thought. First published in France in 1975, it is the major theoretical work of one of the foremost thinkers in Europe today. This is one of the most original and important works of contemporary European thought. First published in France in 1975, it is the major theoretical work of one of the foremost thinkers in Europe today. Castoriadis offers a brilliant and far-reaching analysis of the unique character of the social-historical world and its relations to the individual, to language, and to nature. He argues that most traditional conceptions of society and history overlook the essential feature of the social-historical world, namely that this world is not articulated once and for all but is in each case the creation of the society concerned. In emphasizing the element of creativity, Castoriadis opens the way for rethinking political theory and practice in terms of the autonomous and explicit self-institution of society.

Author : Paul D. Miller,Svitlana Matviyenko
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780262320801

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The Imaginary App by Paul D. Miller,Svitlana Matviyenko Pdf

The mobile app as technique and imaginary tool, offering a shortcut to instantaneous connection and entertainment. Mobile apps promise to deliver (h)appiness to our devices at the touch of a finger or two. Apps offer gratifyingly immediate access to connection and entertainment. The array of apps downloadable from the app store may come from the cloud, but they attach themselves firmly to our individual movement from location to location on earth. In The Imaginary App, writers, theorists, and artists—including Stephen Wolfram (in conversation with Paul Miller) and Lev Manovich—explore the cultural and technological shifts that have accompanied the emergence of the mobile app. These contributors and interviewees see apps variously as “a machine of transcendence,” “a hulking wound in our nervous system,” or “a promise of new possibilities.” They ask whether the app is an object or a relation, and if it could be a “metamedium” that supersedes all other artistic media. They consider the control and power exercised by software architecture; the app's prosthetic ability to enhance certain human capacities, in reality or in imagination; the app economy, and the divergent possibilities it offers of making a living or making a fortune; and the app as medium and remediator of reality. Also included (and documented in color) are selected projects by artists asked to design truly imaginary apps, “icons of the impossible.” These include a female sexual arousal graph using Doppler images; “The Ultimate App,” which accepts a payment and then closes, without providing information or functionality; and “iLuck,” which uses GPS technology and four-leaf-clover icons to mark places where luck might be found. Contributors Christian Ulrik Andersen, Thierry Bardini, Nandita Biswas Mellamphy, Benjamin H. Bratton, Drew S. Burk, Patricia Ticineto Clough, Robbie Cormier, Dock Currie, Dal Yong Jin, Nick Dyer-Witheford, Ryan and Hays Holladay, Atle Mikkola Kjøsen, Eric Kluitenberg, Lev Manovich, Vincent Manzerolle, Svitlana Matviyenko, Dan Mellamphy, Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid, Steven Millward, Anna Munster, Søren Bro Pold, Chris Richards, Scott Snibbe, Nick Srnicek, Stephen Wolfram