This book explores the atmospheric issue from a connotatively architectural perspective. It is a journey through the maze of atmospheric poetics, articulated in five stages. […]
Technological Destinies of the Imagination
The tradition of Kant’s critical philosophy developed the concept of imagination in a rigorous and productive way. It also allows us to develop an aesthetic […]
Leonora Carrington. The image of Dreams
In her youth, Leonora Carrington (1917 – 2011) was a runaway English debutante and a fledgling Surrealist in prewar Paris. In her old age she […]
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Object Oriented Dialectics. Hegel. Heidegger. Harman
In this relatively short book, Johns, in the style of Derrida, looks over the absence or spectre of the signifier “dialectic” in both Martin Heidegger and Graham Harman’s work, arguing […]
Secret Stories on the Silk Road. Symbols, Architectures and Myths between Italy, the Middle East and China
“This book is a journey, of course, but the path does not go in one direction. We could imagine its content as a great caravan […]
Yonaoshi. Visions of a Better World
Yonaoshi (世直し、よなおし, world renewal/repair/remaking) is a Japanese term that first appeared in the context of peasant uprisings in the mid-19th century and signified the resto- […]
Revolutionary Times. A Comparative View of the Long 1960s in Japan and Italy
The “long 1960s”, beginning in the mid-1950s and continuing into the mid-1970s, was an epoch defined by its social and political upheavals and international scope […]
Where Thought Hesitates. Gregory Bateson and the Double Bind
In 1956, together with his research group, the anthropologist Gregory Bateson published a theory that was to revolutionize the way of conceiving mental illness. Over […]