Aldo van Eyck - Writings, 1 & 2 + DVD [Vol. 1: The Child, the City and the Artist & Vol. 2: Collected Articles and Other Writings]. Vincent Ligtelijn and Francis Strauven, eds. Amsterdam: Uitgeverij SUN, 2008. 238 pp + 744 pp.
Space & Culture has previously posted on innovative architects (for example, here and […]
Making Things Public: Atmospheres of Democracy, Bruno Latour & Peter Weibel, editors, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005. 1072 pp.
Space & Culture has previously posted on this book, Latour, democracy and the public.This is our second review of this tome: See Tonya Davidson’s review in issue 9.3.
Is a politics of things essential to public life today? […]
The Hatred of Democracy, Jacques Rancière, trans. Steve Corcoran. London: Verso, 2006, 106 pp.
In The Hatred of Democracy, Jacques Rancière polemically addresses what he views to be a widespread trend of anti-individualism in the past and present canons of social, political, and philosophical thought. Crucially for Rancière, this trend of anti-individualism is part of […]
Medicine by design: The architect and the modern hospital, 1893-1943, Annmarie Adams, Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2008
Annmarie Adams‘ methodological position treats buildings and architecture as social agents, not simply as receptive canvases of human intentionality. Taking this attitude towards hospitals, she uses Montreal’s Royal Victoria Hospital (RVH) in the period 1893-1943 as her […]
Ordinary Affects, Kathleen Stewart, Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2007.
The overwhelming feeling I have by the end of Ordinary Affects is that the author, Kathleen Stewart, has transcribed and compiled an array of haphazard, quasi-accidental and unpredictable trajectories that haunt cultural theory and, ultimately, show it up in all its fragility. […]