Author:Shusaku Arakawa, Madeline Gins, etc.
Published:Collage of Holy Cross and University of Paris VII
Year:2004
Language:English
Contents
Introduction by Jean-Michel Rabate
Arakawa and Gins, Directions for Architectural Procedure Invention and Assembly
Arakawa and Gins, Vital Contextualizing Information for Directions for Architectural Procedure Invention and Assembly
I. Architecture against Death
Hank Lazer, The Art and Architecture of Holding Open: The Radical Yes of Architectural Body
Jean-Jacques Lecercle, The Tense of Architecture
Trish Glazebrook, Architecture Against Mortality: Building Origins
Don Ihde, The Ultimate Phenomenological Reduction
Mark Hansen, The Arche-Technics of Life
Hideo Kawamoto, The Mystery of Nagi’s Ryoanji: Arakawa and Gins and Autopoiesis
Gary Shapiro, Building, Timing, Thinking: Reversible Destiny After Hegel, Heidegger and Smithson
Steve McCaffery, ‘To Lose One’s Way’ (For Snails and Nomads): The Radical Labyrinths of Constant, and Arakawa/Gins
Jost Muxfeldt, Does Death Survive? A Reverse Teleology
II. Poesis and Autopoesis
Martin E. Rosenberg, Constructing Autopoiesis: The Architectual Body in Light of Contemporary Cognitive Science
Michel Delville, The Poet as the World: The Multidimensional Poetics of Arakawa and Madeline Gins
Craig Adcock, The Meaning of Blank in Arakawa’s Early Work
Dagmar Buchwald, ‘Invisible Microphytic Colonies’: Word Rain by Madeline Gins
Mary Ann Caws, The Construction in Question
Lissa Wolsak, Union of Open Sets
Marianne Shaneen, Regarding the Impossible
Marcia Landy and Stanley Shostak, Five Senses to Immortality
Patrick Pardo, Of Self-Marmots and Humansnails: Arakawa + Gins and the Architectural Body
Charles Bernstein, Every Which Way but Loose
III. Vita Nuova — Life On New Terms
Chet Wiener, Some Critical Steps to Life on New Terms
Art Shostak, Helping Sociology to Reinvent Itself: Another G/A Possibility
Shaughan Lavine, The Architecture of a Person
Klaus Benesch, The Architectural Body: Reconfigurations of Space in Postmodern Culture
Sandy Baldwin, Tentatively Dedicated to our Transhuman Destiny
David Kolb, Oh Pioneers! Bodily Reformation Amid Daily Life
Shaun Gallagher, Body Experiments
Jondi Keane, The Multimodal Consequences of Coordinology
Reuben Baron, Towards a Social Ecology of Landing Sites and Architectural Bodies
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