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Architectures of Embodiment Disclosing New Intelligibilities
ISBN: PB: 9783035801996, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, May 2021
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
This book began within Architecture of Embodiment, a research environment focused on the inquiry of architecture from an enactivist perspective and through aesthetic practices. Primarily, Architecture of Embodiment does not aim to find answers to its...
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"Here Lies" preceded by "The Indian Culture"
ISBN: PB: 9783035803648, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, March 2021
108 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"Here Lies" preceded by "The Indian Culture" collects two of Antonin Artaud's foremost poetic works from the last period of his life. He wrote both works soon after his release from the psychiatric hospital of Rodez and his return to Paris, and they...
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Radio Works: 1946-48
ISBN: PB: 9783035802504, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, September 2020
128 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones
Following his release from the Rodez asylum, Antonin Artaud decided he wanted his new work to connect with a vast public audience, and he chose to record radio broadcasts in order to carry through that aim. That determination led him to his most expe...
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TO LOSE YOUR HEAD (IDOLS) Catalonia in Venice
ISBN: PB: 9788494423444, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, July 2020
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 200 halftones
For their 2019 Venice Biennale pavilion, Catalonia presented an exhibition exploring the life of public statues and reflecting on the capacity of artworks to possess agency. The project considers the often-intense relationship that forms between huma...
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Artaud the Momo and Other Major Poetry
ISBN: PB: 9783035802351, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, April 2020
160 pp., 18.4x12 cm
"Artaud the Momo" is Antonin Artaud's most extraordinary poetic work from the brief final phase of his life, from his return to Paris in 1946 after nine years of incarceration in French psychiatric institutions to his death in 1948. This work is an u...
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Nikolaj Evreinov "The Storming of the Winter Palace"
ISBN: PB: 9783037349915, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, October 2017
250 pp., 22x13.9 cm, 20 colour plates, 85 halftones
In 1920, on the third anniversary of the October Revolution, dramatist Nikolai Evreinov directed a cast of 10,000 actors, dancers, and circus performers – as well as a convoy of armored cars and tanks – in "The Storming of the Winter Palace". The mas...
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Wittgenstein's Rhinoceros
ISBN: HB: 9783037345474, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, August 2016
64 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, colour throughout illus.
At its most basic, philosophy is about learning how to think about the world around us. It should come as no surprise, then, that children make excellent philosophers! Naturally inquisitive, pint-size scholars need little prompting before being willi...
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Timing of Affect Epistemologies of Affection
ISBN: PB: 9783037346693, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, November 2014
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones
Affect, or the process by which emotions come to be embodied, is a burgeoning area of interest in both the humanities and the sciences. For "Timing of Affect", Marie-Luise Angerer, Bernd Bosel, and Michaela Ott have assembled leading scholars to expl...
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