A comparison between the work and ideas of Beckett and Giacometti, focusing on what Megged believes is their common quest to find a "dialogue in the void."

Dialogue in the Void: Beckett & Giacometti

Megged, Matti

Arts & Photography

Lumen Books

Eighteen Nicaraguan writers and others comment on the current political and social conditions of Nicaragua and discuss their own work.

Culture & Politics in Nicaragua: Testimonies of Poets and Writers

History

White, Steven

Americas

The first collection of Goytisolo's essays to appear in English. "Rarely does fortune deliver so significant a book....This collection of essays qua travel literature is in fact a serious study of the nature of understanding."--Small Press

Space in Motion

Literature & Fiction

Goytisolo, Juan

Essays & Correspondence

Michael Benedikt teaches, practices architecture, and writes in Austin, where he is a Professor of Architecture at the University of Texas. His second book, Deconstructing the Kimbell (0-930829-16-6), is also published by Lumen. "Benedikt has written a bold theoretical essay, with stirring cultural implications, that argues to restore the missing sense of reality to architecture and insists on ‘the direct esthetic experience of the real.’ . . . a timely manifesto. Thought-provoking and eminently quotable, it succeeds admirably in what it sets out to do: to recall architecture, and not only architecture, to those all but mute meanings so often passed over and yet inseparable from our everyday existence.—Karsten Harries "This book will still be useful when this year's round arches have all been remodeled (isn't it inevitable?) into pointed. And because it is so vividly -and thoughtfully--written, it will still be a pleasure to read."—Charles Moore "Every literate architect should take an afternoon off to read and ponder this brief and thoughtful and thoroughly engaging book. . . . Benedikt says more about some central aesthetic and philosophical issues confronting contemporary architecture than many celebrated pundits manage to squeeze into a shelfful of books. . . . He offers a straightforward account of his own struggle to understand the pleasures and responsibilities of architecture in an age when aesthetic pleasure is all but indiscernible from entertainment, and responsibility is often a cover for thoughtless conformity."—Roger Kimball, Architectural Record "Benedikt marches bravely into the philosophical thicket to find a working definition of reality. . . . In his sensibilities, he is quite transcendental, much like a Thoreau or an Emerson in a hotel lobby of potted ficus trees."—Howard Mansfield, Small Press ". . . the book of the decade in Texas architectural circles. . . "—Texas Architect

For an Architecture of Reality

Benedikt, Michael

History & Criticism

Eighteen Nicaraguan writers and others comment on the current political and social conditions of Nicaragua and discuss their own work.

Culture and Politics in Nicaragua - Testimonies of Poets and Writers

Sor Juana's Dream

Politics & Social Sciences

de la Cruz, Sister Juana Ines

Women's Studies

The definitive edition of this celebrated collection of Borges 1930 s and 40s film reviews, complemented by Cozarinsky's "excellent introduction" (Sight and Sound) as well as his critical studies of eight film adaptations of Borges's work. "Borges's view of film as a story-telling mechanism is a necessary corrective..."--Andrew Sarris

Borges in/and/on Film

Humor & Entertainment

Cozarinsky, Edgardo

Movies

A dramatization of the passion of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, a Mexican nun regarded as one of her country's greatest poets.

Reverse Thunder: A Dramatic Poem

Ackerman, Diane

Dramas & Plays

Essays by the author of Cobra and Maitreya exploring literature, painting, simulation in animals and humans as well as the ideas of Barthes, Derrida, and Kristeva. "An important document in the history of Latin American literary criticism."--Alfred MacAdam, Review

Written on a Body

Sarduy, Severo

From ongoing experiments with bio-generative software, this comic book graphically explores design and digital nature through forms and structures derived from plant simulations: e-trees, branches, leaves, and flowers. The third Pangolin's Guide illustrates works generated with Xfrog using biologically and environmentally derived information. It also considers ways to infuse botanic attributes into structures, STL models, hybridized technologies, and materials while keeping in mind performance goals such as shape-shifting aerodynamics, passive air filtration, and temperature and pollution control. The comic's drawings are rendered from the project's CAD files to visualize and hypothesize ways for "digitally growing"—simulating—bio-design and bio-evolved forms with sensors and actuators for hybridized urban structures.The Pangolin's Guide to Bio-Digital Movement in Architecture follows the 2006 publication of The Pangolin's Guide to Biomimetics & Digital Architecture, continuing that comic book's emphasis of the integration of nature, architecture, and design. The new edition presents ideas for developing bio-inspired technologies for tall urban structures while it develops ideas biomimetically sampled from movement in trees and plants along with observations from leaves, flowers, and seedpods. The comic book graphically suggests new forms of structural systems as well as new solutions of building skins and cladding.These new structures and the comic book are the work of Dennis Dollens, a professor of architecture in the Genetic Architectures and BioDigital master program at the Universitat International de Catalunya, Barcelona. The comic book is supported by an iPhone/iTouch app edition and is a companion to Dollens' recent book, D-BA2: Digital-Botanic Architecture II.

The Pangolin's Guide to Bio-Digital Movement in Architecture: Architecture & Biomimetics Series #3

Architecture

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