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This book allows students, researchers, and non-academic readers to connect with Virilio's distinctive architectural theories, critical studies, and fresh ideas.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Series Editor’s Preface List of Illustrations Acknowledgements 1. Introduction Virilio’s Architectural Career 2. Analysing the Oblique Post-Second World War French Architecture, the École des Beaux-Arts, and Architecture Principe ‘Manhattan Out’ ‘The Oblique Function’ The Oblique Church of Sainte-Bernadette du Banlay, Nevers Analysing the Oblique: Bunker Archeology 3. Critical Space On the Origins of Virilio’s Conception of Critical Space The Overexposed City The Interface of Virtual Space The Contamination of Real Space by Virtual Space The Struggle to Redefine the Unity of Time and Place in the Overexposed City Recombining the Real Space/Virtual Space Divide The Sudden Confusion between Reception and Perception, or the Transformation of Matter into Light Virilio: Architectural Theory and Practice 4. The Big Night: Into the Ultracity The Big Night The Unknown Quantity: Farewell to the Milky Way From Urban Stasis to Urban Escape Into ‘The Ultracity’: Anti-Ecological and Escapist Strategies in the City of Extremes Motorized and Accelerated Temporalities: The Mutation of Technical Progress Very High Buildings or Exurbanism at Altitude 5. Bernard Tschumi, Grey Ecology, and the Cities of the Beyond Tschumism Grey Ecology Critical and Hypercritical Space Global Hypermovement Hyper-World Space or the Revolution of the Hyperevent In the Cities of the Beyond Thinking Differently: Grey Ecology and the Question Concerning the Contemporary World-City Further Reading Bibliography Index
Über den Autor / die Autorin
John Armitage is Professor of Media Arts at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. He is the author and editor of numerous books on the work of Paul Virilio including Virilio and the Media and The Virilio Dictionary.
Zusammenfassung
This book allows students, researchers, and non-academic readers to connect with Virilio’s distinctive architectural theories, critical studies, and fresh ideas.
