Author: Lois WeinbergerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 39
Book Description
The Cultures of Entanglement
Author: Suzanne AnkerPublisher: transcript Verlag
ISBN: 3839468051
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
The symbolic meaning of plants, their relevance to religion and the metaphorical provocations in the order of knowledge, culture and political power underline the role of plants as something more than passive objects. Current theoretical and artistic discourses have been seeking access to the world independently of man by focusing on the nonhuman other. The contributors to this volume examine the historical, philosophical and scientific findings that generate this idea. In what way are such perspectives manifest in contemporary art? Do artists develop a particular approach that enables nonhuman life forms like plants, insects or animals to have an impact?
Lois Weinberger
Author: Lois WeinbergerLois Weinberger
Author: Lois WeinbergerPublisher:
ISBN: 9783775739184
Category : Art, Austrian
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"The Komm.Rat Dr. Hans Klocker und Dr. Wolfgang Klocker-Stiftung is an Austrian non-profit foundation based in Innsbruck. . . . As from 2014, the Foundation will award a major art prize every other year, and one or two sponsorship awards on alternate years. Honours bestowed on the winners include acquisitions, exhibitions and publications. . . . Lois Weinberger . . . is the first winner of the Klocker Foundation Art Prize . . . . The first volume of the Klocker Foundation publications [is] the Lois Weinberger monograph"--Part I, page 6.
Lois Weinberger
Author: Architecture and Fire
Author: Stamatis ZografosPublisher: UCL Press
ISBN: 1787353729
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Architecture and Fire develops a conceptual reassessment of architectural conservation through the study of the intimate relationship between architecture and fire. Stamatis Zografos expands on the general agreement among many theorists that the primitive hut was erected around fire – locating fire as the first memory of architecture, at the very beginning of architectural evolution. Following the introduction, Zografos analyses the archive and the renewed interest in the study of archives through the psychoanalysis of Jacques Derrida. He moves on to explore the ambivalent nature of fire, employing the conflicting philosophies of Gaston Bachelard and Henri Bergson to do so, before discussing architectural conservation and the relationship between listed buildings, the function of archives, and the preservation of memories from the past. The following chapter investigates how architecture evolves by absorbing and accommodating fire, while the penultimate chapter examines the critical moment of architectural evolution: the destruction of buildings by fire, with a focus on the tragic disaster at London’s Grenfell Tower in 2017. Zografos concludes with thoughts on Freud’s drive theory. He argues the practice of architectural conservation is an expression of the life drive and a simultaneous repression of the death drive, which suggests controlled destruction should be an integral part of the conservation agenda. Architecture and Fire is founded in new interdisciplinary research navigating across the boundaries of architecture, conservation, archival theory, classical mythology, evolutionary theory, thermodynamics, philosophy and psychoanalysis. It will be of interest to readers working in and around these disciplines.
Lois & Franziska Weinberger
Author: Odense Kunsthalle Brandts KlaedefabrikPublisher:
ISBN: 9788777661457
Category :
Languages : da
Pages : 111
Book Description
The Mobile Garden - Lois Weinberger
Author: Austria, Germany, and the Cold War
Author: Rolf SteiningerPublisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 0857455982
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
In the 'Moscow Declaration' of 1943 the Allies officially propagated the notion of Austria as the first victim of Hitlerite aggression and announced their intention to set up a "free and independent Austria" after the war, which finally happened in 1955. By questioning why it took so long to get to this point, the author addresses issues such as the victim thesis, Austrians as perpetrators, Austrian anti-Semitism and official attempts to mitigate its effects after the war. He discusses the various proposals for post-war Austria and connects for the first time the issues of Anschluss, German question, Cold War, and the State Treaty. He makes it clear that the question of Austria was from the very beginning inextricably linked with the more important question of Germany.
After the Reich
Author: Giles MacDonoghPublisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465006205
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
The shocking history of the brutal occupation of Germany after the Second World War When the Third Reich collapsed in 1945, Germany was a nation in tatters, in many places literally flattened by bombs. In the ensuing occupation, hundreds of thousands of women were raped. Hundreds of thousands of Germans and German-speakers died in the course of brutal deportations from Eastern Europe. By the end of the year, denied access to any foreign aid, Germany was literally starving to death. An astonishing 2.5 million ordinary Germans were killed in the post-Reich era. A shocking account of a massive and brutal military occupation, After the Reich draws on an array of contemporary first-person accounts of the period to offer a bold reframing of the history of World War II and its aftermath.
Human-Animal Relationships in Times of Pandemic and Climate Crisis
Author: Josephine BrownePublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040127657
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
This book situates sociological research as a vital tool for understanding, and responding to, the multispecies entanglements that cause, inform and arise from states of crisis involving the environment, climate and zoonotic disease transmission. Considering the consequences of a range of multispecies engagements that challenge the perceived distinction between the social worlds of humans and other animals, it explores the themes of crisis through a range of studies, including ecological disturbance, consumer culture, intensive farming and interspecies relations in urban life. With attention to central questions about life in ‘the now normal’, including the extent to which a human–animal perspective can contribute to our understanding of pandemics, the ideological foundations of mainstream norms for human–animal relations and the scope of current and emerging social movements for reshaping human–animal relations, this volume represents a timely and important call for a sociological vision to embrace the implications of a multispecies planet and to expand the concepts of inclusion and justice. A reconsideration of the human–animal relation that seeks both to revise sociology’s past and inform its future, Human–Animal Relationships in Times of Pandemic and Climate Crises will appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in human–animal relations and the environment.