03623nam 2200613 a 450 991045235180332120210528002215.01-281-73112-997866117311200-300-13202-610.12987/9780300132021(CKB)1000000000472134(StDuBDS)BDZ0022171478(SSID)ssj0000233010(PQKBManifestationID)11947315(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000233010(PQKBWorkID)10219590(PQKB)11591241(StDuBDS)EDZ0000158285(MiAaPQ)EBC3419875(DE-B1597)485383(OCoLC)1024014848(DE-B1597)9780300132021(Au-PeEL)EBL3419875(CaPaEBR)ebr10167924(CaONFJC)MIL173112(OCoLC)923587323(EXLCZ)99100000000047213420011101d2002 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrReading Godot[electronic resource] /Lois GordonNew Haven, Conn. Yale University Pressc20021 online resource (1 online resource ([ix], 214 p.) )illBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-300-09286-5 Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-207) and index.Front matter --CONTENTS --ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --INTRODUCTION --ONE. The First Forty Years, 1906-46: Origins of a Vision and Form --TWO. Waiting for Godot: The Existential Dimension --THREE. The Dream as a Manifestation of Unconscious Language and Emotion: The Conglomerative Effect --FOUR. The Conglomerative Voice: Cain and Abel --FIVE. The Language of Dreams: The Anatomy of the Conglomerative Effect --SIX. ''The key word . . . is 'perhaps' '' --SEVEN. Staging the Conglomerative Effect --EIGHT. Crystallization of a Vision and Form --NOTES --SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY --INDEXWaiting for Godot has been acclaimed as the greatest play of the twentieth century. It is also the most elusive: two lifelong friends sing, dance, laugh, weep, and question their fate on a road that descends from and goes nowhere. Throughout, they repeat their intention "Let's go," but this is inevitably followed by the direction "(They do not move.)." This is Beckett's poetic construct of the human condition. Lois Gordon, author of The World of Samuel Beckett, has written a fascinating and illuminating introduction to Beckett's great work for general readers, students, and specialists. Critically sophisticated and historically informed, it approaches the play scene by scene, exploring the text linguistically, philosophically, critically, and biographically. Gordon argues that the play portrays more than the rational mind's search for self and worldly definition. It also dramatizes Beckett's insights into human nature, into the emotional life that frequently invades rationality and liberates, victimizes, or paralyzes the individual. Gordon shows that Beckett portrays humanity in conflict with mysterious forces both within and outside the self, that he is an artist of the psychic distress born of relativism.LITERARY CRITICISM / DramabisacshElectronic books.LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama.842/.914Gordon Lois G680405MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910452351803321Reading Godot2483494UNINA04054nam 2200493 450 991055424620332120210510123926.03-0356-2164-010.1515/9783035621648(CKB)4100000011759869(MiAaPQ)EBC6473639(DE-B1597)545109(DE-B1597)9783035621648(PPN)257775900(EXLCZ)99410000001175986920210331d2021 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierCritique of architecture essays on theory, autonomy, and political economy /Douglas SpencerBasel, Switzerland :Birkhäuser,[2021]©20211 online resource (228 pages) illustrationsBauwelt Fundamente1683-0356-2163-2 Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Section 1. Architecture, Deleuze and Neoliberalism -- 1 Architectural Deleuzism: Neoliberal Space, Control and the ‘Univer-City’ -- 2 Habitats for homo economicus: Architecture, Design and the Environment of ‘Man’ -- 3 Personifying Capital: Architecture and the Image of Participation -- Section 2. Autonomy: Architecture and the Politics of Depoliticization -- 4 Less than Enough: A Critique of the Project of Autonomy -- 5 The Limits of Limits: Schmitt, Aureli and the Geopolitical Ontology of the Island -- 6 Out of the Loop: Architecture, Automation and Cognitive Disinvestment -- 7 Architecture after California -- Section 3. Reckoning with Theory -- 8 Going to Ground: Agency, Design and the Problem of Bruno Latour -- 9 Returns on the City: Detroit and the Design of Late Fordism -- 10 Enjoy the Silence: On the Consolations of the Post- political -- 11 Architecture’s Abode of Production: Beyond Base and Superstructure -- 12 On Allegory, the Architectural Imagination and Radical Disillusionment: In Conversation with Miloš Kosec -- Note on the Essays -- IllustrationsCritique of Architecture entwirft einen neuen und radikalen Theorieansatz über die Verbindung zwischen Architektur und Kapital. Das Buch legt die theoretische Akrobatik offen, mit der die Architektur ihre Dienste für den Neoliberalismus legitimiert, untersucht ihre Bereitstellung von Plattformen für glücklich angepasste Konsumenten und hinterfragt das zugrundeliegende unternehmerische Selbstbild. Critique of Architecture thematisiert darüber hinaus den Autonomie-Diskurs und fragt nach dessen Vermögen, sich tatsächlich mit den Begriffen und Bedingungen des heutigen Kapitalismus auseinanderzusetzen. Es analysiert so die post-politische Wende der aktuellen Architekturtheorie und rechnet mit dem Vermächtnis und den Grenzen einer kritischen Theorie ab.Critique of Architecture offers a renewed and radical theorization of the relations between capital and architecture. It explicates the theoretical gymnastics through which architecture legitimates its services to neoliberalism, examines the discipline’s production of platforms for happily compliant consumers, and challenges its entrepreneurial self-image. Critique of Architecture also addresses the discourse of autonomy, questioning its capacity to engage effectively with the terms and conditions of capitalism today, analyses the post-political turns of contemporary architecture theory, and reckons with the legacies and limitations of critical theory.Architecture, Modern20th centuryArchitectureStudy and teachingArchitecture, ModernArchitectureStudy and teaching.720.981LH 67160rvkSpencer Douglas1158272MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910554246203321Critique of architecture2815357UNINA