Timothy Morton ecological thought

• 2007. Ecology Without Nature: Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics (Harvard University Press).
• 2010. The Ecological Thought (Harvard University Press).
• 2013. Realist Magic (Open Humanities Press).

Town and Revolution: Soviet Architecture and City Planning, 1917-1935

Imprint

London : Thames and Hudson, [1970]

Post-Soviet art and architecture / edited by Alexey Yurasovsky and Sophie Ovenden

Note	Papers based on material presented at an international conference/exhibition on post-modernism and national cultures which was held at the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, in October 1993.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references.
Contents	Moscow, October 4, 1993, 10:10 am : Modernity is dead / Charles Jencks -- Apocalypse and utopia through Post-Modern eyes / Elinor Shaffer -- Post-Modernism and national cultures / Lisa Appignanesi -- The immovable feast : a story of Soviet/Post-Soviet post-Modernism / Nadezhda Yurasovskaya -- The flower of the snow queen / Andrey Bartenev -- The garden of architecture at the millennia / Sergey Orlov -- Fin de siécle through the eyes of a contemporary / Andrey Tolstoy -- Nicholas Feodorov and Venus Stockman / Yury Leiderman -- The new dis-order summarised in St. Petersburg / Olesia Turkhina and Viktor Mazin -- Shaman art : Engel Iskhakov / Olga Yushkova -- Two exhibitions / Evgeny Semyonov -- Re-animating culture : St.Sebastian / Natalya Kamenetskaya -- Games in the twilight : Valery Cherkashin's Museum Metropolitan -- The eastward voyage of Post-Modernism : the home theatre of Faik Agaev / Lana Shikhzamanova -- The experimental laboratory / Olga Ziangirova and Maria Tehuikova -- Determining the point; Yellow Mountain Group, Bureau of Scientific Research / Evgeny Solodkii -- Post-Modernism on a scale of 1:666: the phenomenon of 'paper architecture' in the USSR / Alexey Tarkhanov -- Paper architecture : a postscript / Alexander Rappaport.

Diller Scofidio + Renfro: Architecture after Images

 Diller Scofidio + Renfro: Architecture after Images, Edward Dimendberg offers the first comprehensive treatment of one of the most imaginative contemporary design studios.  Since founding their practice in 1979, Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio have integrated architecture, urban design, media art, and the performing arts in a dazzling array of projects, which include performances, art installations, and books, in addition to buildings and public spaces.  At the center of this work is a fascination with vision and a commitment to questioning the certainty and security long associated with architecture. 

Dimendberg provides an extensive overview of these concerns and the history of the studio, revealing how principals Elizabeth Diller, Ricardo Scofidio, and Charles Renfro continue to expand the definition of architecture, question the nature of space and vision in contemporary culture, and produce work that is endlessly surprising and rewarding, from New York’s High Line to Blur, an artificial cloud, and Facsimile, a video screen that moves around a building facade.  Dimendberg also explores the relation of work by DS+R to that by earlier modernists such as Marcel Duchamp and John Hejduk.  He reveals how the fascination of the architects with evolving forms of media, technology, and building materials has produced works that unsettle distinctions among architecture and other media.

The Moment of Complexity EMERGING NETWORK CULTURE

The Moment of Complexity

EMERGING NETWORK CULTURE

"The Moment of Complexity is a profoundly original work. In remarkable and insightful ways, Mark Taylor traces an entirely new way to view the evolution of our culture, detailing how information theory and the scientific concept of complexity can be used to understand recent developments in the arts and humanities. This book will ultimately be seen as a classic."-John L. Casti, Santa Fe Institute, author of Gödel: A Life of Logic, the Mind, and Mathematics

architecture soviet modernism

Soviet Modernism 1955-1991

Edited by the Vienna Centre of Architecture

Park Books

To nonspecialists outside Eastern Europe, Soviet architecture conjures up vast, gray cityscapes of monotonous Brutalistbuildings, all created with utility rather than style in mind. This widely held impression glosses over the many stunning works created during the Soviet era and the diversity of architecture throughout the Soviet region. Soviet Modernism 1955–1991 seeks to correct pervasive opinions on Soviet architecture by exploring and documenting buildings throughout the former Eastern Bloc.

locating science fiction

Locating Science Fiction

Andrew Milner

Liverpool University Press

In Locating Science Fiction, Andrew Milner looks at science fiction within the context of a host of other genres—including fantasy, romance, and the thriller—and explores the historical and geographic contexts of science fiction’s emergence and development.