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Non-Construction An Architectural Gesture in Artistic Research
ISBN: HB: 9783035803488, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, April 2021
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 colour plates, 50 halftone
By defining a concept of architecture based on the tactile experience and not on construction, this book allows us to explore both discursive practice as the study of architectural art and the integration of architectural art as a discourse of spatia...
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£32,00
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Neo-Aristotelianism and the Medieval Renaissance On Aquinas, Ockham, and Eckhart
ISBN: PB: 9783035801484, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, March 2020
144 pp., 21.5x13.3 cm
In this lecture course, Reiner Schurmann develops the idea that, in between the spiritual Carolingian Renaissance and the secular humanist Renaissance, there was a distinctive medieval Renaissance connected with the rediscovery of Aristotle. Focusing...
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£32,00
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Natures of Data A Discussion between Biologists, Artists and Science Scholars
ISBN: PB: 9783035802245, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, February 2020
192 pp., 21.5x13.3 cm
Computer-based technologies for the production and analysis of data have been an integral part of biological research since the 1990s at the latest. This not only applies to genomics and its offshoots but also to less conspicuous subsections such as...
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£26,00
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Necroperformance Cultural Reconstructions of the War Body
ISBN: PB: 9783035801910, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, November 2019
448 pp., 24.1x15.2 cm, 30 halftones
In "Necroperformance", Dorata Sajewska proposes an innovative perspective for looking back at the formative process of Polish modernity, delving into repressed areas of experience connected with World War I and the ensuing emancipatory movements. Und...
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£38,00
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Newton and the Club of Astronomers
ISBN: HB: 9783035801408, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, October 2019
64 pp., 22x15.2 cm, Illustrated in colour throughout
We know Isaac Newton as a brilliant polymath, inventor of the calculus and the person who first began to suss out the fundamental laws of physics. But in this delightful account of his life and thought aimed at young readers, we learn oh, so much mor...
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£10,99
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Neolithic Childhood Art in a False Present, c. 1930
ISBN: HB: 9783035801064, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, September 2018
400 pp., 26.7x17.1 cm, 400 colour plates
Resonating at the heart of "Neolithic Childhood: Art in a False Present, c. 1930" is the question whether art has present, past, and future functions. The modernist assertion of the autonomy of art was intended to render superfluous art's social and...
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£49,00
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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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£30,00
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No New Kind of Duck Would I Know How to Say What I Do?
ISBN: PB: 9783037349465, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, February 2017
384 pp., 19x13.3 cm, 90 colour plates
What do we learn by making art? What do we discover by discussing our art with other people? These are the questions at the heart of "No New Kind of Duck", which documents an exchange between Jan Verwoert and artists, critics, and other researchers a...
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£22,50
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Neighborhood Technologies Media and Mathematics of Dynamic Networks
ISBN: PB: 9783037345238, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, June 2015
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones
"Neighborhood Technologies" expands upon sociologist Thomas Schelling's well-known study of segregation in major American cities, using this classic work as the basis for a new way of researching social networks across many different disciplines. Up...
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£34,00
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