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Philosophy Of The Home - Domestic Space And Happiness (Paperback): Emanuele Coccia Philosophy Of The Home - Domestic Space And Happiness (Paperback)
Emanuele Coccia
R322 R260 Discovery Miles 2 600 Save R62 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

A searching account of the ethics and aesthetics of the home: the place that is most important in determining human happiness.

A bedroom, a kitchen, a bathroom - are these rooms all that make a home? Not at all, argues Emanuele Coccia. The buildings we inhabit are of immense psychological and cultural significance. They play a decisive role in human flourishing and, for hundreds of years, their walls and walkways, windows and doorways have guided our relationships with others and with ourselves. They reflect and reinforce social inequalities; they allow us to celebrate and cherish those we love. They are the places of return that allow us to venture out into the world.

In this intimate, elegantly argued account, Coccia shows how the architecture of home has shaped, and continues to shape, our psyches and our societies, before then masterfully leading us towards a more creative, ecological way of dwelling in the world.

Sensible Life - A Micro-ontology of the Image (Paperback): Emanuele Coccia Sensible Life - A Micro-ontology of the Image (Paperback)
Emanuele Coccia; Translated by Scott Alan Stuart; Introduction by Kevin Attell
R577 Discovery Miles 5 770 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

We like to imagine ourselves as rational beings who think and speak, yet to live means first and foremost to look, taste, feel, or smell the world around us. But sensibility is not just a faculty: We are sensible objects both to ourselves and to others, and our life is through and through a sensible life. This book, now translated into five languages, rehabilitates sensible existence from its marginalization at the hands of modern philosophy, theology, and politics. Coccia begins by defining the ontological status of images. Not just an internal modification of our consciousness, an image has an intermediate ontological status that differs from that of objects or subjects. The book's second part explores our interactions with images in dream, fashion, and biological facts like growth and generation. Our life, Coccia argues, is the life of images.

Viviane Sassen & Emanuele Coccia: Modern Alchemy (Hardcover): Viviane Sassen Viviane Sassen & Emanuele Coccia: Modern Alchemy (Hardcover)
Viviane Sassen; Text written by Emanuele Coccia
R1,109 R905 Discovery Miles 9 050 Save R204 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Botanical: Observing Beauty (Hardcover): Filipa Ramos, Emanuele Coccia, Alice Thomine-Berrada, Estelle Zhong Mengual Botanical: Observing Beauty (Hardcover)
Filipa Ramos, Emanuele Coccia, Alice Thomine-Berrada, Estelle Zhong Mengual; Interview of Jean-Marc Mansvelt, …
R1,274 R1,109 Discovery Miles 11 090 Save R165 (13%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Luiz Zerbini: Botanica, Monotypes 2016-2020 (Hardcover): Luis Zerbini Luiz Zerbini: Botanica, Monotypes 2016-2020 (Hardcover)
Luis Zerbini; Emanuelle Coccia, Stefano Mancuso
R1,922 Discovery Miles 19 220 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
L'Officiel 100 - One Hundred People and Ideas from a Century in Fashion (Hardcover): Stefano Tonchi, Marco Pecorari L'Officiel 100 - One Hundred People and Ideas from a Century in Fashion (Hardcover)
Stefano Tonchi, Marco Pecorari; Text written by Emanuele Coccia, Valerie Steele, Pamela Golbin, …
R1,783 Discovery Miles 17 830 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Risquons-Tout - Planetary Artists Venture into Risk, Unpredictability, and Transgression (Paperback): Emanuele Coccia Risquons-Tout - Planetary Artists Venture into Risk, Unpredictability, and Transgression (Paperback)
Emanuele Coccia; Introduction by Dirk Snauwaert; Marina Vishmidt, Vivian Ziherl
R1,173 Discovery Miles 11 730 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The work of 38 established and emerging artists explore the creative potential of risk-taking and transgression in contemporary life The unconventional theme underlying the art featured in this book is the struggle between risk-taking and the prediction algorithms that have become a feature of contemporary life. Does the influence of machine intelligence, and the coincident avoidance of risk, homogenize creative thought? These ideas are explored in the work of 38 established and emerging artists in a variety of media including painting, drawing, sculpture, sculpture, video art, computer art, and performance. Featured artists include Joelle Tuerlinckx, Ed Atkins, Esther Ferrer, Mounira Al Solh, and Shezad Dawoud. The book takes its title from a town on the French-Belgian border with a history as a well-known customs outpost. Distributed for Mercatorfonds Exhibition Schedule: WIELS Museum for Contemporary Art Brussels (September 12, 2020-February 10, 2021)

Fabrice Hyber, The Valley (Hardcover): Fabrice Hyber Fabrice Hyber, The Valley (Hardcover)
Fabrice Hyber; Interview by Bruce Albert, Emanuele Coccia; Contributions by Pascal Rousseau, Olivier Schwartz
R1,162 Discovery Miles 11 620 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Kapwani Kiwanga (Paperback): Kapwani Kiwanga Kapwani Kiwanga (Paperback)
Kapwani Kiwanga; Edited by Clement Dirie; Text written by Omar Berrada, Amzat Boukari-Yabara, Emanuele Coccia, …
R1,122 R913 Discovery Miles 9 130 Save R209 (19%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Goods - Advertising, Urban Space, and the Moral Law of the Image (Paperback): Emanuele Coccia Goods - Advertising, Urban Space, and the Moral Law of the Image (Paperback)
Emanuele Coccia; Translated by Marissa Gemma
R655 Discovery Miles 6 550 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Objects are all around us - and images of objects, advertisements for objects. Things are no longer merely purely physical or economic entities: within the visual economy of advertising, they are inescapably moral. Any object, regardless of its nature, can for at least a moment aspire to be "good," can become not just an object of value but a complex of possible happiness, a moral source of perfection for any one of us. Our relation to things, Coccia, argues in this provocative book, is what makes us human, and the object world must be conceived as an ultimate artifact in order for it to be the site of what the philosophical tradition has considered "the good." Thinking a radical political praxis against a facile materialist critique of things, Coccia shows how objects become the medium through which a city enunciates its ethos, making available an ethical life to those who live among them. When we acknowledge that our notion of "the good" resides within a world of things, we must grant that in advertising, humans have revealed themselves as organisms that are ethically inseparable from the very things they produce, exchange, and desire. In the advertising imaginary, to be human is to be a moral cyborgs whose existence attains ethical perfection only via the universe of things. The necessary alienation which commodities cause and express is moral rather than economic or social; we need our own products not just to survive biologically or to improve the physical conditions of our existence, but to live morally. Ultimately, Coccia's provocative book offers a radically political rethinking of the power of images. The problem of contemporary politics is not the anesthetization of words but the excess power we invest in them. Within images, we already live in another form of political life, which has very little to do with the one invented and formalized by the ancient and modern legal tradition. All we need to do is to recognize it. Advertising and fashion are just the primitive, sometimes grotesque, but ultimately irrepressible prefiguration of the new politics to come.

Goods - Advertising, Urban Space, and the Moral Law of the Image (Hardcover): Emanuele Coccia Goods - Advertising, Urban Space, and the Moral Law of the Image (Hardcover)
Emanuele Coccia; Translated by Marissa Gemma
R2,250 R1,997 Discovery Miles 19 970 Save R253 (11%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Objects are all around us - and images of objects, advertisements for objects. Things are no longer merely purely physical or economic entities: within the visual economy of advertising, they are inescapably moral. Any object, regardless of its nature, can for at least a moment aspire to be "good," can become not just an object of value but a complex of possible happiness, a moral source of perfection for any one of us. Our relation to things, Coccia, argues in this provocative book, is what makes us human, and the object world must be conceived as an ultimate artifact in order for it to be the site of what the philosophical tradition has considered "the good." Thinking a radical political praxis against a facile materialist critique of things, Coccia shows how objects become the medium through which a city enunciates its ethos, making available an ethical life to those who live among them. When we acknowledge that our notion of "the good" resides within a world of things, we must grant that in advertising, humans have revealed themselves as organisms that are ethically inseparable from the very things they produce, exchange, and desire. In the advertising imaginary, to be human is to be a moral cyborgs whose existence attains ethical perfection only via the universe of things. The necessary alienation which commodities cause and express is moral rather than economic or social; we need our own products not just to survive biologically or to improve the physical conditions of our existence, but to live morally. Ultimately, Coccia's provocative book offers a radically political rethinking of the power of images. The problem of contemporary politics is not the anesthetization of words but the excess power we invest in them. Within images, we already live in another form of political life, which has very little to do with the one invented and formalized by the ancient and modern legal tradition. All we need to do is to recognize it. Advertising and fashion are just the primitive, sometimes grotesque, but ultimately irrepressible prefiguration of the new politics to come.

Sensible Life - A Micro-ontology of the Image (Hardcover): Emanuele Coccia Sensible Life - A Micro-ontology of the Image (Hardcover)
Emanuele Coccia; Translated by Scott Alan Stuart; Introduction by Kevin Attell
R2,000 R1,783 Discovery Miles 17 830 Save R217 (11%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

We like to imagine ourselves as rational beings who think and speak, yet to live means first and foremost to look, taste, feel, or smell the world around us. But sensibility is not just a faculty: We are sensible objects both to ourselves and to others, and our life is through and through a sensible life. This book, now translated into five languages, rehabilitates sensible existence from its marginalization at the hands of modern philosophy, theology, and politics. Coccia begins by defining the ontological status of images. Not just an internal modification of our consciousness, an image has an intermediate ontological status that differs from that of objects or subjects. The book's second part explores our interactions with images in dream, fashion, and biological facts like growth and generation. Our life, Coccia argues, is the life of images.

Teor a del Objeto Y Presentaci n Personal (Spanish, Paperback): Carola Pivetta, Miguel Vedda Teor a del Objeto Y Presentaci n Personal (Spanish, Paperback)
Carola Pivetta, Miguel Vedda; Foreword by Emanuele Coccia
R547 Discovery Miles 5 470 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
La vida de las plantas - Una metaf sica de la mixtura (Spanish, Paperback): Gabriela Milone La vida de las plantas - Una metaf sica de la mixtura (Spanish, Paperback)
Gabriela Milone; Emanuele Coccia
R422 Discovery Miles 4 220 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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