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Index
Contents
Illustration credits
Contributors
Introduction
Chapter 1 Manfredo Tafuri and the age of historical representation
Tafuri and Benjamin
The historian and the architect
History as image
The deformations of historical memory
Crisis of history
Crisis of critical attention
Acknowledgment
References
Chapter 2 Looking backward, looking forward
Hard matter
Delay
Matter resurfaced
References
Chapter 3 Porosity at the edge
Acknowledgment
References
Chapter 4 From Baldwin’s Paris to Benjamin’s
The race and sex of architecture
Architectonics of sex/race: this room, that city, another country
References
Chapter 5 Architecture under the gaze of photography
Prologue
Technology and the psyche
Photographic inscription
Photographic memento mori
From the aura to the gaze
Tame or mad?
Afterword: what “media” theory of architecture?
Acknowledgment
References
Chapter 6 The techno-aesthetics of shock
References
Chapter 7 Mimesis
Mimesis and death
Mimesis and children
Towards a mimetic architecture
References
Chapter 8 Daniel among the philosophers
Impossible poetry
The architecture of Auschwitz
Building being and not-being
Collage consciousness
Voiding the labyrinth
The Jewish question
Aesthetic occupation
Angelus Contempus
Acknowledgment
References
Chapter 9 Portbou and two grains of wheat
Two grains of wheat
Pondering, creation and redemption
Angelus Novus
‘Now’
Portbou
Epilogue
Acknowledgement
References
Index
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