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Spector Books
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Arch+ : The great repair : Politics for a society of repair ; A reader
Collectif
- Spector Books
- Arch+
- 1 Mai 2023
- 9783959057134
A theoretical approach to repairing society from the perils of capitalism and overconsumption.
This collaborative project between ARCH+, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, ETH Zurich and the University of Luxembourg proposes a vision of societal repair based on practices of care, maintenance and mending. -
Arch+ : The great repair Tome 2 : A catalog of practices
Collectif
- Spector Books
- Arch+
- 22 Février 2024
- 9783959057882
Lère capitaliste moderne, avec laccent mis sur la croissance et le progrès et un système économique basé sur la consommation, le gaspillage et lépuisement des ressources, a conduit à une exploitation impitoyable des personnes et de la nature. Pour contrer cela, le projet THE GREAT REPAIR met en avant lidée dune société de réparation centrée sur les pratiques de soin, dentretien et de réparation. Deux numéros spéciaux du magazine ARCH+ sont publiés en collaboration avec Spector Books pour accompagner l'exposition présentée à Berlin et en partie reprise à Paris. Le premier numéro (The Great Repair Politics of the Repair Society, mai 2023) sert d'introduction théorique au sujet, tandis que le second (The Great Repair A Catalog of Practices) présente les pratiques de réparation.
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Arch+ : Contemporary feminist spatial practices
Collectif
- Spector Books
- Arch+
- 26 Mai 2023
- 9783959057011
On architecture as a political medium and the intrinsic interconnectedness of all social justice issues.
This publication interrogates how forms of social injustice are entwined in the built environment, positing that the fight for gender equality in architecture must be linked to antiracism, anticolonialism, antitransphobia and antihomophobia. -
Bauhaus Taschenbuch n.26 : vegetation under power. heat, breath, growth
Collectif
- Spector Books
- Bauhaus Taschenbuch
- 9 Juillet 2022
- 9783959055871
Contextualizing the Bauhaus's legacy within the contemporary environmental destruction of a small, energy-driven German town.
This publication interweaves stories about the energy-defined landscape of the German town of Bitterfeld with the modern legacy of the Bauhaus. Using archival documents, physical interventions and field studies, it proposes a new reading of the Bauhaus's modernist motto "Light! Air! Sun!" recast as "Heat, Breathe, Grow". -
On the cultural and political implications of the rise in dashcam technology The proliferation of dashcam technology in recent years has inadvertently yielded a contemporary index of car accidents in the vast accumulation of crash footage on the Internet. Exploring this phenomenon, this essay unravels the broader logic of "horizon scanning" that underpins the foresight programs of the Singapore government.
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An exploration of the unstable and ever-changing nature of images
The mobility and relationality of images means that their statuses are always in flux and their interpretations are never fixed. In this volume, the authors draw on their own personal image archives as a means of interrogating the charged instability of all images. -
This volume gathers contemporary digital imaginaries of neoliberal multinational extractivism as a terra nullius upgrade at the West African coast together with the long-term practice of encoding matter as a poetics of resistance within colonial extractivism.
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