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Categories and order systems : Claude Parent and the Serving Library. Intersections of architecture, art and editorial design
This paper discusses the work of Claude Parent and The Serving Library, considering the critiques generated by their intersecting of architecture, art and editorial design. Through focus on the ways in which hosting environment, architecture and forms of expanded publishing can serve to dissolve disciplinary boundaries and activities of production, spectatorship and reception, it draws on the lineage of 1960s/70s Conceptual Art in considering these practices as a means through which to escape medium specificity and spatial confinement. Relationships between actual and virtual space are then read against this broadening of aesthetic ideas and the theory of critical modernity
Pictures of the past : Benjamin and Barthes on photography.
This paper explores the key moments in Benjamin’s and Barthes’s analyses of the cultural significance of the photograph. For Benjamin these are; the optical unconscious, the transmission of aura, the representation of cultural and political decay and proto-surrealist political commentary. For Barthes they are; the techniques of the photographer, the studium, the punctum and the ecstasy of the image. These rather different approaches to photography reveal a common concern with history. Both authors have written about the nature of historical understanding and photography has provided both with a powerful metaphor. What emerges from their analyses of photographs is that each evokes a double moment of historical awareness; of being both in the present and in the past. For Benjamin this is the ‘spark of contingency’ with which the aura of past existence shines in the present. For Barthes it is the ‘ça-a-été’, the emotional stab of awareness that what is present and visible in the photograph is irretrievably lost in the past
NUEVA YORK DELIRA
El atentado del World Trade Center (02/02/95) es el primero después de la guerra fría. Sean quienes fueren sus autores, inaugura una nueva era del terrorismo, que nada tiene en común con las explosiones a repetición que sacuden regularmente a Irlanda e Inglaterra. En efecto, el aspecto distintivo de semejante atentado es que estaba clara y definidamente destinado a derrumbar el edificio del World Trade Center; dicho de otra manera, a provocar la muerte de decenas de miles de personas inocente..
Une anthropologie du pressentiment
L’instant réel est-il présent ? De quelle réalité l’histoire des sociétés est-elle chargée, celle des siècles, des années, celle des civilisation des générations passées ? L’accélération de la réalité présente-t-elle un impact décisif sur l’historicité des faits avérés, plus précisément encore une histoire du temps réel est-elle encore « historique » ? Autant d’interrogations qui affectent aujourd’hui l’anthropologie. En effet, peut-on encore parler d’un monde contemporain ? Ne devrait-on pas..
The polaroid image as photo-object
This article is part of a larger project on the cultural history of Polaroid photography and draws on research done at the Polaroid Corporate archive at Harvard and at the Polaroid company itself. It identifies two cultural practices engendered by Polaroid photography, which, at the point of its extinction, has briefly flared into visibility again. It argues that these practices are mistaken as novel but are in fact rediscoveries of practices that stretch back as many as five decades. The first section identifies Polaroid image-making as a photographic equivalent of what Tom Gunning calls the ‘cinema of attractions’. That is, the emphasis in its use is on the display of photographic technologies rather than the resultant image. Equally, the common practice, in both fine art and vernacular circles, of making composite pictures with Polaroid prints, draws attention from image content and redirects it to the photo as object
Velocidad, guerra y video: Paul Virilio entrevistado por François Ewald
¿Podría ser urbanista Paul Virilio? Probablemente, pero no es sólo
urbanista. ¿Arquitecto? No, es más todavía: un filósofo que consagra
su tiempo a leer el presente, pero no tanto en lo dicho o escrito sino en
lo que se inscribe en el espacio. Paul Virilio pertenece a otra especie:
la filosofía de la técnica. Su amigo Claude Parent dijo de él: «Es el
arqueólogo del futuro». Lo cierto es que Paul Virilio siempre procura
captar las virtualidades de las técnicas que atraviesan nuestros cuerpos
y organizan nuestras relaciones con el mundo y con los demás . Su
último libro, La velocidad de liberación (Ed. Galilée), propone una
descripción sorprendente de un mundo de ahora en adelante ligado a
las técnicas de las telecomunicaciones: el tiempo anula el espacio.
Paul Virilio describe allí el peligro especifico en el accidente en general.
E invita a la formación de una ecología gri
El silencio de los corderos. Una crítica del totalitarismo tecnológico. Paul Virilio en conversación con Carlos Oliveire
Expósito, M.; Virilio, P.; Oliveire, C. (1999). El silencio de los corderos. Una crítica del totalitarismo tecnológico. Paul Virilio en conversación con Carlos Oliveire. Banda aparte. (13):40-42. http://hdl.handle.net/10251/42313.Importación Masiva40421
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