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# GUEST WRITERS ESSAYS 37 /// Bodies at Scene: Architecture as Friction by...
Today’s guest writer is Pedro Hernández who, along with people like Ethel Baraona Pohl, Cesar Reyes, Daniel Fernández Pascual, Mariabruna Fabrizi, Fosco Lucarelli and some more people spread in few...
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# MAPS /// War in the Manhattan Strip
map of the American military apparatuses on and around Manhattan as well as the strike records of the day / Map by the author Two funerals, two faces of Manhattan. The first a display of strength and...
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# PALESTINE /// Political Geography of the Gaza Strip: A Territory of...
Map of the Gaza Strip (Dec 2011) /// United Nations Office for the Coordination of Human Affairs in Occupied Palestinian Territory I think that many of us are infuriated in front of the unfolding new...
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# PALESTINE /// Representation of the Otherness for a Gaza kid
IDF Soldiers in front of a ‘flock’ of militarized Bulldozers Caterpillar D9 I apologize to those of my readers who would like to come back to a bigger diversity of articles but, to be honest, I can not...
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# POLITICS /// Powerless Poor Neighborhoods in Post-Sandy New York City
Red Hook (NYC) on November 18th 2012 /// Photo by Léopold Lambert Right after the hurricane Sandy cut hundreds of thousand New Yorkers out of power, I wrote an article that insisted on the symbolical...
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# GUEST WRITERS ESSAYS 38 /// Natura Non Facit Saltum: On the concept of...
OYSTER- TECTURE | © SCAPE Studio, 2010 Today’s guest writer is Annick Labeca, polyglot (!), editor of Urban Lab Global Cities, and great follower of the Funambulist. In this text entitled Natura Non...
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# PALESTINE /// Architectural Stockholm Syndrome
Israeli Settlement of Kokhav Ya’akov / New Palestinian Housing Complex (both near Ramallah) /// Photographs by Léopold Lambert I wrote many times about the numerous Israeli settlements in the West Bank...
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# HISTORY /// Reimagining Recreation by James Trainor in Cabinet 45 about Games
One of the last issues of the excellent Brooklyn-based magazine Cabinet was dedicated to the notion of game. The dossier itself, is very interesting, but I was particularly curious about the first...
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# PHILOSOPHY /// A Short Political Reading of Leibniz’s Small Sensations
‘It must be the case that I have some perception of the movement of each wave on the shore if I am to be able to apperceive that which results from the movements of all the waves put together, namely...
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# PHILOSOPHY /// Form & Matter: Gilbert Simondon’s Critique of the...
French philosopher Gilbert Simondon (1924-1989) is very likely to join Spinoza, Nietzsche, Deleuze and Foucault in the list of philosophers that influence the writings on this blog. It has been a...
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# PHILOSOPHY /// Form & Matter: Gilbert Simondon’s Critique of the...
This post is the second part of an article about the first chapter of Gilbert Simondon‘s L’individu et sa genèse physico-biologique (1964), entitled Form and Matter. After exploring the text itself...
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# CRUEL DESIGNS /// The Handcuffs of the Future
Apparatus and system for augmented detainee restraint. Patent assigned to Scottsdale Inventions LLC (2012) The following article is a good opportunity for me to open a new category in the blog’s...
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# POLITICS /// Idealism & Imagination
Inspired by a recent conversation I had with my good friend Nora (see her text for the funambulist) about the recent UN vote in favor of the Palestinian Authority, I came to think about the notions of...
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# INDUSTRIAL DESIGN /// The Geometrical Particularity of the Gömböc
I am not really sure if I would be able to write any new article until the end of the year, so in the meantime, here is a very short aside post to discover a particular object : the Gömböc. Invented...
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# POLITICS /// Epistolary Conversation with CollageLab
Few months ago, Joanne Pouzenc from CollageLab proposed that we would have an epistolary conversation in the frame of the CollageLab’s Points of view series which was opened by our good friend Daniel...
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# BOOKS /// The Book of Games
Playground Proposal by Isamu Noguchi (excerpt from The Book of Games) First of all, I apologize for this absence, I am hoping to engage with interesting series of article soon but, in order to start...
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# NYC COMMUNE /// Introduction
Following the narrative I created around the question of the New York Commune as an interesting scenario to investigate what would be a contemporary equivalent of the 1871 Paris Commune, I am now...
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# NY COMMUNE PROJECT /// The Democratic Cinematographic Construction of La...
La Commune (de Paris, 1871) by Peter Watkins (see also an old article about Punishment Park) filmed in 1999 is the absolute reference for the NY Commune project as it addresses the question of the...
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# CINEMA /// The Phenomenological Introspection of Holy Motors by Leos Carax
Leos Carax in his own film, Holy Motors (2012) An intuition I (too) briefly explored in May 2011 though an article entitled The Paradigm of Modern Cinema: The Cinematographic Introspection (Godard,...
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# PALESTINE /// The Reasons of Disobeying a Law
Earlier this week, a group of about 250 Palestinians gathered in East Jerusalem in the E1 Area where the Israeli government announced the construction of 3,000 new housing units after the recent UN...
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