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# NY COMMUNE PROJECT /// The 1871 Paris Commune as seen by Karl Marx
Le Cri du Peuple by Jacques Tardi (2001) As I wrote earlier, the 1871 Paris Commune is the historical reference of this series of articles. Despite an institutional soft form of censorship, there has...
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# BOOKS /// Weaponized Architecture: The Impossibility of Innocence published...
I apologize to those of my readers who would reasonably see this article as a form of self-promotion, this will be the first and only post about this book. Following the research I undertook in 2010...
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# PHILOSOPHY /// Remus has to Die
One of the most famous fratricide of the world mythology is the one of Romulus and Remus. Similarly to Cain killing his brother Abel in the Bible/Quran or Seth killing his brother Osiris in the...
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# WEAPONIZED ARCHITECTURE /// Immurement: The Absolute Violence of...
This article is not a sequel as such of the previous one, but rather starts where the last post ended. I was evoking the possibility for the corpse of Remus to have been buried in the thickness of the...
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# LITERATURE /// The Fouled Beauty of James Graham Ballard
The poem that I included at the end of this article was recently found by my friend Martin and constitutes an important document as James Graham Ballard makes explicit in it a form of manifesto – as...
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# PHILOSOPHY /// SemioWar: Poetry vs. Finance in Franco Berardi’s book The...
The books published by semiotext(e) (distributed by the MIT Press) are never disappointing. the Intervention series in particular, started a propos by the Coming Insurrection, succeeds to produce...
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# INDUSTRIAL DESIGN /// 3D Printing as a Future Paradigm/Manifesto of an...
In the previous article, we were following Franco “Bifo” Berardi in his argument according to which the financialization/semotization of the world should be fought against through the invention of...
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# PHILOSOPHY /// The Infinite Worlds Folded in the Dresses of Yiqing Yin
The following text is something I wrote few weeks ago, after two years of quasi-beatitude in front of the beautiful work developed by young French fashion designer Yiqing Yin. Many of my readers won’t...
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# ARAKAWA/GINS /// The counter-biopolitical Bioscleave Experiment as imagined...
The interior domestic terrain of the Bioscleave House by Arakawa + Gins As I recently started a whole section of the blog’s archives dedicated to the work of Shusaku Arakawa and Madeline Gins, I will...
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# LAW /// Architecture and the Law: In Context Series for Mas Context
Mas Context just released the new episode of their series In Context, that asks one of their reader (myself in that case) to pick five articles of the previous issues and join them in a short...
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# CINEMA /// …Would Have Been My Last Complaint
A few months ago, I was fortunate enough to have access to the short film “…Would Have Been My Last Complaint” created by Camille Lacadée (see her guest writer essay as an inventory for this project)...
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# SPINOZA /// Episode 1: The Marxian Reading of Capitalism through a...
Today, I am starting a series of articles about 17th century Portuguese-Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza and thus dedicates to his work a ‘week’ like I did two years ago for Gilles Deleuze and last...
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# SPINOZA /// Episode 2: Spinozist Determinism or how Caesar could have not...
I am intending to conclude this ‘Spinoza week’ with some architectural applications of this philosophy; however, it is probably useful to dedicate the first articles to compose a sort of Spinozist...
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# SPINOZA /// Episode 3: Power (Potentia) vs. Power (Potestas): The Story of...
First of all, I would like to share with my readers the story of this article that first took me three hours to write and disappeared when I pressed ‘publish’! According to yesterday’s article...
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# SPINOZA /// Episode 4: The World of Affects or why Adam got Poisonned by...
Today is the fourth episode of the ‘Spinoza week’ (which will last a bit longer than a week as you probably already understood) and the third article dedicated to the exploration of Spinoza’s...
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# SPINOZA /// Episode 5: The Spinozist “Scream”: What can a Body do?
The ‘Spinoza Week” continues with its Deleuzian terminology to address the philosophy of Spinoza. The “scream” evoked in the title refers indeed to the concept of philosophical scream that Deleuze...
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# SPINOZA /// Episode 6: Applied Spinozism: The Body in Kurosawa’s Cinema
Screenshot from 悪い奴ほどよく眠る (The Bad Sleep Well) by A. Kurosawa (1960) To be honest, I am not fully sure where I am going with this first of two articles on potential Applied Spinozism; the possibility...
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# SPINOZA /// Episode 7: Applied Spinozism: Architectures of the Sky vs....
Architecture of the Sky (Milan Trade Fair Building by Massimiliano & Doriana Fuksas) versus Architecture of the Earth (Japanese playground photographed by Munemi Natsu) This article will be somehow...
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# LITERATURE /// George Orwell: The Post-Ideological Man
The following text was written by the recent augmented reality pamphlet Orwellian published by my very good friends Ethel Baraona Pohl and Cesar Reyes of dpr-barcelona and dedicated to the work of...
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# WEAPONIZED ARCHITECTURE /// The Eastern State Penitentiary Panopticon: The...
The panopticon in its totality / assembled photographs by Léopold Lambert Last week, I had the opportunity to visit the former Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia. The building is particular as...
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