Imagologies: Media Philosophy

Imagologies: Media Philosophy is no ordinary book. Provocative, irritating and stimulating, this is a work to be engaged, questioned and pondered. As the web of telecommunications technology spreads across the globe, the site of economic development, social change, and political struggle shifts to the realm of media and communications. In this remarkable book, Mark Taylor and Esa Saarinen challenge readers to rethink politics, economics, education, religion, architecture, and even thinking itself. When the world is wired, nothing remains the same. To explore the new electronic frontier with Taylor and Saarinen is to see the world anew. A revolutionary period needs a revolutionary book. Get a head start of the 21st Century: Read Imagologies: Media Philosophy

Humor & Entertainment

Mark C. Taylor

Esa Saarinen

Radio

Routledge

Taylor (humanities and religion, Williams College, Massachusetts) reconsiders the two philosophers based on the notion that all modern philosophy lies between the poles of their thought. He has added a new introduction to the 1980 original edition.

Journeys to Selfhood, Hegel and Kierkegaard

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

University of California Press

Vito Acconci is a key late twentieth-century pioneer of performance, video, installation and the exploration of architectural space. His work has expanded art's boundaries, moving beyond the gallery or museum into shared public spaces. Initially a poet, Acconci began making Conceptual art in the late 1960s. He devised actions, enacted them and documented them with texts, photographs or video. In 1972 he produced the most famous performance installation of its time, Seedbed. In an empty gallery he built a low ramp, concealed beneath which he stimulated himself with sexual fantasies about viewers walking above, speaking his fantasies into a microphone linked to loudspeakers. Startled spectators found themselves implicated in an intimate power relationship between artist and viewer. Since the mid 1980s his work has turned towards experimental architectural projects. In 1988 he set up the architectural practice Acconci Studio, which has public commissions around the world and was featured at the 
Venice Architecture Biennale in 2001. Acconci's work remains of vital importance not only to Conceptual art and performance, but to contemporary architectural theory and practice.

Vito Acconci (Phaidon Contemporary Artists Series)

Arts & Photography

Jennifer Bloomer

Vito Acconci

Frazer Ward

History & Criticism

Phaidon Press

Log 13/14, a special double issue, examines the events and aftershocks of 1968 via the subsequent development of architectural and cultural movements over two generations. The 27 entries include: a reassessment of the collapse of the XIVth Triennale in Milan; renascent forms of Beaux-Arts planning in Paris; the semi-mythic origins of contemporary Dubai; NASA's attempt to design the perfect space suit; and the political potential of the building envelope today. Log also revisits seminal statements from Paul Virilio and Yona Friedman on the nature of the 1968 protests in Paris. Both a retrospective and a critique of past and present-day radical architectural and cultural paradigms, Log 13/14 includes essays and texts by: Jean-Louis Cohen; Peter Eisenman; Sylvia Lavin; Markus Miessen; Paola Nicolin; John David Rhodes; Lukasz Stanek; Robert Venturi; Anthony Vidler; and Alejandro Zaera-Polo among others.

Log 13/14

Peter Eisenman

Paul Virilio

Jean-Louis Cohen

Anthony Vidler

Yona Friedman

Sylvia Lavin

Bernard Tschumi

Alejandro Zaera-Polo

Anyone Corporation

This volume examines the architectural work of Daniel Libeskind and features sketches, plans, models and images of completed buildings. Jacques Derrida, Bernhard Schneider and Mark C. Taylor contribute essays. These identify Libeskind's place within the context of contemporary architecture and theory. A special section of notes and commentary from Libeskind reveals how his designs reflect the major themes of his personal life as well as his vision of the modern age.

Daniel Libeskind: Radix Matrix

Jacques Derrida

Kurt Forster

Bernhard Schneider

Architecture

Prestel

Ann Hamilton's site responsive project, Lignum', which involved an elaborate installation in a large disused barn at Wanas, Sweden, is considered by the artist to be a summation of every other piece made by her. Handsomely presented, this publication documents both the installation and the processes which brought it into existence. accompanying texts, and a conversation with the artist guide the reader through different approaches to the project.

Ann Hamilton: lignum (English and Swedish Edition)

Lynne Cooke

Mirjam Schaub

Marika Wachtmeister

Björner Torsson

Atlantis

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