Design objects, bachelor pads, and multimedia rotating beds as expressions of the relationships among architecture, gender, and sexuality.
More than a simple expository history, A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History sketches the outlines of a renewed materialist philosophy of history in the tradition... Læs mere
A new form of investigative practice that uses architecture as an optical device to investigate armed conflicts and environmental destruction.
An investigation of how the idea of a public as a central fiction of modern life informs our literature, politics, and culture.
The emergence of objectivity in the mid-nineteenth-century sciences, as revealed through images in scientific atlases-a story of how lofty epistemic ideals fuse with workaday practices.
Erwin Panofsky's Perspective as Symbolic Form is one of the great works of modern intellectual history, the legendary text that has dominated all art historical and philosophical discussions on the topic of perspective in this century.
Essays by Gilles Deleuze on the search for a new empiricism.
Late Medieval Christianity's encounter with miraculous materials viewed in the context of changing conceptions of matter itself.
One of the major works of an important modem philosopher, Matter and Memory investigates the autonomous yet interconnected planes formed by matter and perception on the one hand and memory and time on the other.
Theory of Religion, along with its companion volumes of The Accursed Share, forms the cornerstone of Bataille's "Copernican" project to overturn not only economic thought but its ethical foundations as well.
Essays examine nine intriguing objects made eloquent when matter and meaning converge.
A new narrative for the emergence of human music, drawing from archaeology, cognitive science, linguistics, and evolutionary theory.