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ARAKAWA & GINS: ARCHITECTURAL BODY



24-Oct-08

PRECIS – Madeline Gins and Arakawa’s recent re-launch of their decades-old attempt to transcend boundaries complicit with artificial limits ‘placed’ both on/by so-called environmental and biological necessity has extraordinary potential to upset the architectural applecart insofar as this always-incomplete project portends the production of environments that fuse subject and entourage (surroundings) in such a way [...]

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Projecting Migration: Transcultural Documentary Practice

20-Mar-08

Projecting Migration: Transcultural Documentary Practice by Alan Grossman (Editor), Aine O’Brien (Editor) # ISBN-10: 190567404X # ISBN-13: 978-1905674046 Synopsis Migration has rapidly become a fundamental component of modern life and increasingly determines who we are and how we define ourselves today. “Projecting Migration” is a groundbreaking multimedia book/DVD-ROM project that attempts to understand the phenomena [...]

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Foucault’s work does contain an irrealist impulse…

26-Feb-08

Foucault’s work does contain an irrealist impulse, which is to stake his all on the transitive domain of knowledge, and to define reality according to the power of discourses or the Nietzschean struggles of power-knowledge. There is a tendency in Foucault to reduce truth-claims to rhetoricalnarrative strategies (Norris 1992: 85). Yet the power-knowledge relation is [...]

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