The Missed Encounter Of Radical Philosophy With Architecture (bloomsbury Studies In Philosophy)

The Missed Encounter of Radical Philosophy with Architecture brings together a respected team of philosophers and architecture scholars to ask what impact architecture has over today's culture and society. For three decades critical philosophy has been in discourse with architecture. Yet following the recent radical turn in contemporary philosophy, architecture's role in contemporary culture is rarely addressed. In turn, the architecture discourse in academia has remained ignorant of recent developments in radical philosophy. Providing the first platform for a debate between critics, architects and radical philosophers, this unique collection unties these two schools of thought. Contributors reason for or against the claim of the "missed encounter" between architecture and radical philosophy. They discuss why our prominent critical philosophers devote stimulating writings to the ideological impact of arts on the contemporary culture - music, literature, cinema, opera, theatre - without attempting a similar comprehensive analysis of architecture. By critically evaluating recent philosophy in relation to contemporary architecture, The Missed Encounter of Radical Philosophy with Architecture presents a thorough understanding of the new relationship between architecture and radical philosophy. Review This volume questions the long tradition of complacent relationships between architecture and philosophy. It criticises the direct application of philosophy to architectural discourse and the misappropriation of philosophical concepts in architecture. Written by critical philosophers and theorists, the book challenges contemporary architects to think and work differently. (Doina Petrescu, Professor of Architecture and Design Activism, University of Sheffield, UK 2013-12-20) Book Description Explores the new relationship between architecture and contemporary radical philosophy, asking what impact architecture has over today's culture and society. Cover HalfTitle Series Title Copyright Dedication Contents Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Philosophy and Architecture: Encounters and Missed Encounters, Idols and Idolatries 1 The Forgotten Political Art par Excellence?: Architecture, Design and the Social Sculpting of the Body Politic Abandoned buildings The social art par excellence? Reflections on a missed encounter between theory and practice Conclusion 2 Architecture and the Politics of Aesthetics: Autonomy, Heteronomy and the Philosophy of Art1 An art based on politics Architecture, art and the arts The artification of architecture 3 We Are Already Dwelling: Hegel and the Transcendence of Place Material in a spiritual world An absolute architecture Subject to displacement Building a future dwelling Staircases leading nowhere A dwelling that is no place 4 Kant, Modernity and the Absent Public 5 The New Phantasmagoria: Transcoding the Violence of Financial Capitalism Trouble in theory Becoming progressive Raw material The matter of mediation 6 Imitating Critique, or the Problematic Legacy of the Venice School In Venice, and beyond Tools and tasks The burden of the image Criticism of criticism The presence of the past Criticism’s contingencies Wrestling with a legacy Author’s note 7 Gentri-Fiction and Our (E)States of Reality: On the Fatigued Images of Architecture and the Exhaustion of the Image of Thou Disciplinary schooling or becoming-architect Gentri-fiction and our (e)states of reality Exhaustion of the image of thought as a methodology 8 Radical Infrastructure? A New Realism and Materialism in Philosophy and Architecture 9 Casa Come Me: Rocks, Ruins and Shells in Kracauer and Chatwin ‘Moi aussi’ Dreamers and dreamhouses Into the labyrinth Memento mori, memento mare 10 Habit, Distraction, Absorption: Reconsidering Walter Benjamin and the Relation of Architecture to Film Original context and content, or; what’s past is not merely prologue Problems with Benjamin’s account The present state of affairs (coming soon to a built environment near you) Conclusion 11 Hetero-Architecture: The Style of ‘Whatever’ in Art, Architecture and Fashion Introduction Heteropolis: Los Angeles Visual art and fashion An aesthetic of ‘whatever’ Architecture The ‘missed’ encounter 12 Architecture and Antiphilosophy Suture: A mark of antiphilosophy Architecture’s suture to philosophy De-suturing architecture from antiphilosophy 13 Architecture’s Theoretical Death Index This volume brings together a respected team of philosophers and architecture scholars to ask what impact architecture has over today's culture and society. The Missed Encounter of Radical Philosophy with Architecture brings together a respected team of philosophers and architecture scholars to ask what impact architecture has over today's culture and society. For three decades critical philosophy has been in discourse with architecture. Yet following the recent radical turn in contemporary philosophy, architecture's role in contemporary culture is rarely addressed. In turn, the architecture discourse in academia has remained ignorant of recent developments in radical philosophy. Providing the first platform for a debate between critics, architects and radical philosophers, this unique collection unties these two schools of thought. Contributors reason for or against the claim of the "missed encounter" between architecture and radical philosophy. They discuss why our prominent critical philosophers devote stimulating writings to the ideological impact of arts on the contemporary culture - music, literature, cinema, opera, theatre - without attempting a similar comprehensive analysis of architecture. By critically evaluating recent philosophy in relation to contemporary architecture, The Missed Encounter of Radical Philosophy with Architecture presents a thorough understanding of the new relationship between architecture and radical philosophy "The Missed Encounter of Radical Philosophy with Architecture brings together a respected team of philosophers and architecture scholars to ask what impact architecture has over today's culture and society. For three decades critical philosophy has been in discourse with architecture. Yet following the recent radical turn in contemporary philosophy, architecture's role in contemporary culture is rarely addressed. In turn, the architecture discourse in academia has remained ignorant of recent developments in radical philosophy. Providing the first platform for a debate between critics, architects and radical philosophers, this unique collection unties these two schools of thought. Contributors reason for or against the claim of the "missed encounter" between architecture and radical philosophy. They discuss why our prominent critical philosophers devote stimulating writings to the ideological impact of arts on the contemporary culture - music, literature, cinema, opera, theatre - without attempting a similar comprehensive analysis of architecture. By critically evaluating recent philosophy in relation to contemporary architecture, The Missed Encounter of Radical Philosophy with Architecture presents a thorough understanding of the new relationship between architecture and radical philosophy."--Bloomsbury Publishing. 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