1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910456722603321

Titolo

Agency : working with uncertain architectures / / edited by Florian Kossak. [and others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

1-135-28190-4

1-135-28191-2

1-282-44355-0

9786612443558

0-203-86029-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (192 p.)

Collana

Critiques : critical studies in architectural humanities ; ; v. 5

Altri autori (Persone)

KossakFlorian <1967->

Disciplina

720.1/03

720.103

720.104

Soggetti

Architecture and society - History - 20th century

Architecture and society - History - 21st century

Architectural practice - Social aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustration credits; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Agency: Working with uncertain architectures; Intervene; Activism in Appalachia: Yale architecture students in Kentucky, 1966-69; Environmental and social action in the studio: Three live projects along the Elizabeth River; Secondary agency: Learning from Boris Groys; On consensus, equality, experts and good design: An interview with Roberta Feldman and Henry Sanoff; Sustain; Acting up: Architectural practice as ecological performance; Ethics and aesthetics: Deleuze, diagrams and sustainability

The radical potential of architectureAgency, assemblages and ecologies of the contemporary city; Mediate; Against determination, beyond mediation; Agency and automatism: Some strategies of irresponsibility in architecture; Interior exile and paper architecture: A spectrum for architectural dissidence; 'Air rights'; Index



Sommario/riassunto

While the potential of agency is most frequently taken to be the power and freedom to act for oneself, for the architectural community this also involves the power and responsibility to act as intermediaries on behalf of others. Presenting current thinking from practitioners and scholars from around the world, this book asks for a more active relationship between the humanities, the architectural profession, and society. Considering issues of architectural research as an agency of transformation, this book explores how humanities research can better contribute towards understa

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Record Nr.

UNISA996201820803316

Autore

Loughlin Gerard

Titolo

Alien sex [[electronic resource] ] : the body and desire in cinema and theology / / Gerard Loughlin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2004

ISBN

1-281-31030-1

9786611310301

0-470-70115-3

0-470-77335-9

0-470-77515-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (338 p.)

Collana

Challenges in contemporary theology

Disciplina

233.5

233/.5

Soggetti

Human body - Religious aspects - Christianity

Sex - Religious aspects - Christianity

Motion pictures - Religious aspects - Christianity

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; List of Figures; In the Lobby; Part I Introduction; 1 Desiring Bodies; Part II Cavities; 2 Seeing in the Dark; 3 Visionary Screens; Part III Copulations; 4 Alien Sex; 5 God's Sex; 6 Sex Slaves; 7 Want of Family; Part IV Consolations; 8 The Man Who Fell to Earth; 9 The Garden; Index



Sommario/riassunto

Gerard Loughlin is one of the leading theologians working at the interface between religion and contemporary culture. In this exceptional work, he uses cinema and the films it shows to think about the church and the visions of desire it displays. Discusses various films, including the Alien quartet, Christopher Nolan's Memento, Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey and A Clockwork Orange, Nicolas Roeg's The Man Who Fell to Earth and Derek Jarman's The Garden. Draws on a wide range of authors, both ancient and modern, religious and secular, from Plato to Levinas, from