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Paul Virilio is an innovative figure in the study of architecture,
space, and the city. Virilio for Architects primes readers for
their first encounter with his crucial texts on some of the vital
theoretical debates of the twenty-first century, including: Oblique
Architecture and Bunker Archeology Critical Space and the
Overexposed City The Ultracity and Very High Buildings Grey Ecology
and Global Hypermovement In exploring Virilio's most important
architectural ideas and their impact, John Armitage traces his
engagement with other key architectural and scientific thinkers
such as Claude Parent, Benoit B. Mandelbrot, and Bernard Tschumi.
Virilio for Architects allows students, researchers, and
non-academic readers to connect with Virilio's distinctive
architectural theories, critical studies, and fresh ideas.
Paul Virilio is an innovative figure in the study of architecture,
space, and the city. Virilio for Architects primes readers for
their first encounter with his crucial texts on some of the vital
theoretical debates of the twenty-first century, including: Oblique
Architecture and Bunker Archeology Critical Space and the
Overexposed City The Ultracity and Very High Buildings Grey Ecology
and Global Hypermovement In exploring Virilio's most important
architectural ideas and their impact, John Armitage traces his
engagement with other key architectural and scientific thinkers
such as Claude Parent, Benoit B. Mandelbrot, and Bernard Tschumi.
Virilio for Architects allows students, researchers, and
non-academic readers to connect with Virilio's distinctive
architectural theories, critical studies, and fresh ideas.
In these 15 taster essays you will discover the key concepts and
critical approaches of the theorists who have had the most
significant impact on the humanities since 1990. On completing each
chapter, you will find suggestions for further reading so that you
can find out more and start applying the ideas in question. In
addition to chapters on individuals such as Badiou, Ranciere and
Spivak, there are chapters on Laclau and Mouffe, and a chapter on
Green critical theorists. Key Features *Written by experienced
lecturers including John Armitage (Northumbria University), Paul
Hegarty (University College Cork), David Huddart (Chinese
University of Hong Kong), Simon Tormey (The University of Sydney),
Samuel A. Chambers (Johns Hopkins University) *Sets each theorist
in their biographical and intellectual context *The only book to
offer chapter-length introductions to such a range of contemporary
theorists making it the first place to look for an informed
overview and evaluation *Jon Simons has edited two other popular
guides to critical theory: From Kant to Levi-Strauss: The
Background to Contemporary Critical Theory and Contemporary
Critical Theorists: From Lacan to Said.
From couture fashion to opulent perfumes and decadent food, the
luxury goods and services industry has grown at an unprecedented
rate even in the context of a global recession. But in contemporary
digital culture does luxury still reside in material things, or
rather the look of things? In this first study of luxury through
the lens of visual culture, Armitage argues that luxury is
undergoing a shift from material culture to the immaterial culture
of the visual, offering new forms of luxury engagement and
unparalleled levels of pleasure never before offered to the senses.
Calling for a new understanding of luxury in the changing visual
landscape of contemporary society, Luxury and Visual Culture
embraces an extraordinary range of cultural forms, including
fashion, photography, social media, television, and art. From the
masterpieces of Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, to Richard Avedon's
photography and Louis Vuitton's Flagship stores, the book explores
key issues of globalization, digitization, consumer identity,
"mass" luxury, and the role of art. This text is ideal for all
students of contemporary luxury studies, as well as scholars and
researchers in the field of visual culture.
Assembling the foremost scholars in this innovative, distinctive
and expanding subject, internationally well-known critical
theorists John Armitage and Joanne Roberts present a
ground-breaking aesthetic, design-led and media-related examination
of the relations between historical and, crucially, contemporary
ideas of luxury. Critical Luxury Studies offers a technoculturally
inspired survey of the mediated arts and design, as well as a means
of comprehending the socio-economic order with novel philosophical
tools and critical methods of interrogation that are re-defining
the concept of luxury in the 21st century.
This is the first genuine appraisal of Virilio's contribution to
contemporary art, photography, film, television and more. Paul
Virilio is one of the leading and most challenging critics of art
and technology of the present period. Re-conceptualising the most
enduring philosophical conventions on everything from technology
and photography to literature, anthropology and cultural and media
studies through his own original theories and arguments, Virilio's
work has produced substantial debate, compelling readers to ask if
his criticism is out of touch or out in front of traditional
perspectives. This collection of 13 original writings, including a
newly translated piece written by Virilio himself, is indispensable
reading for all students and researchers into contemporary visual
culture. Key features: a wide-ranging treatment of Virilio's key
theoretical concepts and themes from across his work on visual
culture so far; surveys Virilio's aesthetics and socio-cultural
ideas and how they function within his highly politicised approach
to visual culture; examines Virilio's thinking from his first works
on war and cinema to his latest theoretical conjectures on art,
perception and seeing; contributors include Caren Kaplan,
University of California at Davis; Ian James, University of
Cambridge; Benjamin H. Bratton, University of California, San
Diego, and Tania Roy, National University of Singapore.
In a world that is obsessed with luxury, critical luxury studies is
a rapidly emerging field. This is the first book to explore the
interplay between the real and imaginary realms of luxury,
considering the most significant developments in the theories and
practices of luxurious places and spaces over the last fifty years.
Providing a critical approach to contemporary interpretations of
luxury, the book interrogates the distinction between real places
and imaginary spaces. Bringing together an interdisciplinary group
of leading scholars, it features a range of case studies which take
the reader from the Rolls-Royce Ghost Black Badge to expressions of
sensuality in the 1970s domestic interior, and global conceptions
of fine wine and art. The Third Realm of Luxury considers the
interplay between luxury and space in both the past and the
present, examining the abstract conception of excess and exoticism,
as well as the real locations of the home, hotel, apartment, and
palace. Full of original research, it is a key contribution to the
study of consumption, design, fashion, and architecture.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Title: The History of Brazil, from the period of the arrival of the
Braganza family in 1808, to the abdication of Don Pedro the First
in 1831 ... Forming a cotinuation to Southey's History of that
country. With portraits.]Publisher: British Library, Historical
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Armitage, John; Southey, Robert; 1836. 2 vol.; 8 . 1061.c.34.
This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have
numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a
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History / Americas;
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reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is
culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our
commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's
literature.
In Two Volumes. This scarce antiquarian book is included in our
special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more
extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have
chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have
occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing
text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other
reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is
culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our
commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's
literature.
In Two Volumes. This scarce antiquarian book is included in our
special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more
extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have
chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have
occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing
text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other
reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is
culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our
commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's
literature.
From couture fashion to opulent perfumes and decadent food, the
luxury goods and services industry has grown at an unprecedented
rate even in the context of a global recession. But in contemporary
digital culture does luxury still reside in material things, or
rather the look of things? In this first study of luxury through
the lens of visual culture, Armitage argues that luxury is
undergoing a shift from material culture to the immaterial culture
of the visual, offering new forms of luxury engagement and
unparalleled levels of pleasure never before offered to the senses.
Calling for a new understanding of luxury in the changing visual
landscape of contemporary society, Luxury and Visual Culture
embraces an extraordinary range of cultural forms, including
fashion, photography, social media, television, and art. From the
masterpieces of Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, to Richard Avedon's
photography and Louis Vuitton's Flagship stores, the book explores
key issues of globalization, digitization, consumer identity,
"mass" luxury, and the role of art. This text is ideal for all
students of contemporary luxury studies, as well as scholars and
researchers in the field of visual culture.
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