Sites of ‘glocal’ representations and artistic resistance: the Neapolitan urban imaginary in Antonio Capuano'sSacred Silence

2009 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-45
Author(s):  
Patrizia La Trecchia
2011 ◽  
Vol 47 (5) ◽  
pp. 483-487 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ines Detmers ◽  
Birte Heidemann ◽  
Cecile Sandten
Keyword(s):  

ZARCH ◽  
2016 ◽  
pp. 106
Author(s):  
Juan Luis De las Rivas

A través de tres figuras creativas y relevantes, aunque no siempre bien conocidas, de tres imágenes y de tres ideas arquitectónicas planteadas por ellas pensando en el futuro urbano, se desarrollan en este escrito unas notas o apuntes que quieren ser útiles hoy, aunque permanezcan en los márgenes del imaginario urbano contemporáneo dominante. A pesar de sus limitaciones coyunturales, Bel Geddes, Fuller y Kurokawa siguen ofreciendo una reflexión valiosa sobre la relación entre la ciudad y su medio y, a la vez, sobre la ciudad-artefacto como medio. Si dichas propuestas pueden parecen exageradas, ello se debe a las condiciones históricas de un futuro que cuando se define quizás envejece. Pero no son proyectos utópicos, se plantean en contextos precisos y se consideran viables, confiando en la capacidad de la ciencia y de la tecnología para mejorar el hábitat del hombre.Through three creative and important figures, perhaps not well known, trough three images and three architectural ideas raised by them for thinking the urban future, this writing develops some notes useful nowadays, in spite of they remain in the edges of the contemporary dominant urban imaginary. Despite its occasional constraints, Bel Geddes, Fuller and Kurokawa still offer a valuable reflection on the relationship between the city and its environment and, at the same time, about the man-made city as a medium. If these proposals could be seen excessive, this is due to the historical restrictions of a future when defined, gets older. But them are not utopian projects, are raised in precise contexts and are considered viable, trustful in the ability of science and technology for improving the habitat of man.


2020 ◽  
Vol 112 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-154
Author(s):  
Lars Cornelissen

Abstract ‘Non-Fascist Living’: Identity, Subjectivity, ResistanceThis article explores a recent form of academic and artistic resistance to contemporary modalities of fascism. This form of resistance is premised upon the argument that fascism lodges itself in the deepest recesses of the self, manifesting as fascist desires and beliefs. As such, traces of fascism are present in everyone, including people who do not otherwise hold fascistic ideas. This position goes on to argue that any critic of fascism must accordingly identify and eradicate such traces inside her own subjectivity, by means of an ethics of ‘non-fascist living’. Critically examining the philosophical presuppositions of this position, the article asks what implicit conception of the subject and its relation to resistance is at work here. It brings this position into conversation with Michel Foucault, upon whose work it draws but whose understanding of resistance, it is argued, it reconceptualises. The article concludes by reflecting on the implications of this form of resistance for critical philosophical practice.


Transfers ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathalie Roseau

This article focuses on the process of the design of airports and how in particular the urban context has shaped their specific histories. Far from being merely pure technical or functional equipment, they have been mirrors for contemporary expectations, just as they informed the modern urban imaginary. According to this perspective, an urban history of airports can be traced from the first aerodromes dedicated to large urban publics to the development of spectacular airports driven by the massive recent routinization of air transport so intricately bound up with globalization. Based on research on specific cases of the design and building of New York and Paris airports, this article aims to resist the temptations to dehistoricize the airport topic, and to introduce a narrative mode of thinking about these specific and concrete spaces.


Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document