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Rethinking the City
Interdisciplinary in approach, this book employs the key concepts of fragmentation and reconfiguration to consider the ways in which human experience and artistic practice can engage with and respond to the disintegration that characterises modern cities. Asking how we might unsettle and decrypt the homogeneous images of cities created by processes linked to capitalism and globalisation, it invites us to consider the possibility of reimagining and rethinking the urban spaces we inhabit. An exploration of the complex relationship between aesthetics, the arts and the city, Rethinking the City: Reconfiguration and Fragmentation will appeal to scholars across various disciplines, including philosophy, urban sociology and geography, anthropology, political theory and visual and media studies.
Philosophy as Experimentation, Dissidence and Heterogeneity
Contemporary philosophical research interconnects classical domains of philosophy, the arts, literature and social sciences. This collection of essays explores the operational role of experimentation, dissidence and heterogeneity in this process. It offers fundaments for the criticism of monolithical tendencies often put forward under the banner of the ‘Speculative Turn’ or New Realism, by means of exploring the contribution and influence of authors such as J. G. Hamann, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche and Guy Debord. These philosophers, historically placed within the margins of the philosophical mainstream, were decisive in the emergence of the philosophical thought and practices of Deleuze, Wittgenstein and Bataille, as shown here. The reader will also find re-evaluations of the contributions of Vico, Spinoza or Kant to posterity, next to new readings of authors like Foucault, Hadot, Benjamin and Adorno with regards to their significant experimental and dissident positions.
Play and Democracy
This book explores the complex and multi-layered relationships between democracy and play, presenting important new theoretical and empirical research. It builds new paradigmatic bridges between philosophical enquiry and fields of application across the arts, political activism, children’s play, education and political science. Play and Democracy addresses four principal themes. Firstly, it explores how the relationship between play and democracy can be conceptualized and how it is mirrored in questions of normativity, ethics and political power. Secondly, it examines different aspects of play in urban spaces, such as activism, aesthetic experience, happenings, political carnivals and perf...
Projeto não projeto
Este livro tem por foco a reflexão ao projeto em urbanismo. O autor posiciona o projeto como uma construção narrativa discursiva, propondo um deslizamento da dimensão do saber-fazer ao pensar-fazer. O pensar-fazer suspende a dimensão resolutiva, imaginando o projeto para além da sua realidade técnica e instrumental, instalando uma dimensão política. O texto se constrói como a tessitura entre filosofia, urbanismo e literatura, produzindo uma narrativa ensaística. Pensar o projeto de maneira experimental, arriscando mais, riscando menos – rasgar algumas certezas. Não se trata de buscar verdades sobre o projeto, mas especulações, experimentações e pensamentos. Falar do projeto...
Um Piano para Cavalos Altos
Uma cidadela cercada pela natureza onde os lobos são ameaça. Um muro que serve de barreira. Uma sociedade exemplarmente organizada, anos após um grande desastre. Um governo que sabe que o medo é motor e que legisla música. Uma fábrica que produz empadas e apronta cremações. Um microcosmo familiar onde um filho é amarrado a um piano. Um homem dotado da capacidade de sonhar com aquilo que ainda não aconteceu, mas que é certo ir acontecer. Uma rebelião que se levanta. Um cavalo que não perde elegância. Um corvo que gralhará na hora da sorte. Um Piano para Cavalos Altos pretende ser uma metáfora de um mundo regido pela ordem, pela disciplina. Uma premente reflexão sobre o poder: o poder do controlo, o poder da comunicação, o poder do corpo.
Estéticas perdidas
'Estéticas perdidas' invita a deshacer el relato asimilado usualmente por las historias de las ideas estéticas, a romper con la linealidad del discurso temporal de las ideas filosóficas, con el encadenamiento forzado de autores que se suceden en una causalidad generalmente aceptada. No se trata de ofrecer otro relato, de oponer a la historia asumida de las ideas estéticas una historia alternativa, sino de hacer visibles algunos huecos, las sendas perdidas, los espacios y tiempos que han quedado ocultos, parcial o totalmente, en la narración académica. Los veintidós capítulos que componen este libro se adentran en el pensamiento de sendos autores y autoras que de algún modo han sido ...
Aesthetics of Values
Within a landscape, such as the contemporary one, in which studies on the notion of the image proliferate through multiple disciplinary fields, the book Aesthetics of Values. Contemporary Perspectives proposes a path dedicated to the analysis of the status of the image, taking its relationship with the notion of value as a starting point. The project stems from the collaboration between the "Art, Critique and Aesthetic Experience" group of the Nova Institute of Philosophy (IFILNOVA) of the University of Lisbon and the European Aesthetic Seminar on "images, emotions, values" (http: // sites.unimi.it/eu_aesthetics/). In particular, the proposed chapters intend to develop the contributions made...
Social Change, Industrialization, and the Service Economy in São Paulo, 1950-2020
In the 1950s–80s, Brazil built one of the most advanced industrial networks among the "developing" countries, initially concentrated in the state of São Paulo. But from the 1980s, decentralization of industry spread to other states reducing São Paulo's relative importance in the country's industrial product. This volume draws on social, economic, and demographic data to document the accelerated industrialization of the state and its subsequent shift to a service economy amidst worsening social and economic inequality. Through its cultural institutions, universities, banking, and corporate sectors, the municipality of São Paulo would become a world metropolis. At the same time, given its rapid growth from 2 million to 12 million residents in this period, São Paulo dealt with problems of distribution, housing, and governance. This significant volume elucidates these and other trends during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, and will be an invaluable reference for scholars of history, policy, and the economy in Latin America.
