Why you can't read all about Design

The Philosophy of Furniture by Edgar Allan Poe

First Things First Manifestos 1964, 2000

Form Follows What? The modernist notion of function as a carte blanche by Jan Michl.

The Politics of the Artificial by Victor Margolin

Re-Drawing the Geography of European Design: the Case of Transitional Countries by Guy Julier

Read also in past issues :

n.7 Definitions of Monument : "Edinburgh University and the Monumental Tradition" by Clive B. Fenton, "Tales of an Absent Monument. Views of the Monument to National Liberation in Prague" by Matthew S. Witkovsky, "Living Archives, Grafted Monuments: Memory in the Public Sphere (Libera, Haacke, Wodiczko)" by Sven Spieker, an "Interview" with Krzysztof Wodiczko, " The Bloke Alone" by Rem Koolhaas ..more

n.6 Art in public space and its relation to the community: "Free the Billboards: Billboard Liberation Front's Guerilla Campaign" by Kimberly Chun, "For Hamburg: Public Art and Urban Identities" by Miwon Kwon, "Daniel Buren, May 68: Round and About an Incident" by Miguel Faleiro...more

n.5 Cultural Geographies of Space : "Civil Society in Europe" by William Outhwaite, "The place of everyday life geographies in the production, reproduction and practice of cultural difference in a globalizing world" by Theano S. Terkenli, "Info-graphies" by Kostas Bassanos .more.

n.4 The architecture as a fiction of disenchantment: "Flogging dead horses" by Andrew Brighton, "Crime Settings and Dystopias" by Mark Fram, "EC-CENTRICITY or The Ivory Tower Revisited " by Guido Maranzana......more.

n.3 Imagined identities in postcolonial literature :"Imagined Bodies, Imagined Communities: Feminism, Nationalism, and Body Metaphors" by Krista Scott , "Satanic Verses for Metaphysicians" by Fabrizio Trifiro', "Exile and Migration : The examination of technological modes of perception through the novel of "Satanic Verses", in terms of identity disorientation." by Kostis Velonis, "From Particularity to Transcendence" by Marianthi Eleni Koronaiou ...more.

n.2 "Speed and Painting" by Jaime Gili, "Businessman and Terrorists Abroad" by Florian Zeyfang, "The architecture of electricity" by Brian Caroll. "Avant-garde as Software,from "New Vision" to New Media " by Lev Manovich.......more.

n.1 On Whiteness: "The Smoothness of Virginity" by Gregory Mihalcheon, "The prestige to resist : A reading of "Un Coup de Dés" through the sculptural aesthetics of late modernism" by Kostis Velonis "Robert Ryman for metaphysicians" by Fabrizio Trifiro', "Mallarmic music" by Anita Frew ..... more.

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