Author: Funambulist Papers File Type: pdf This book is a collection of thirty-five texts from the first series of guest writers essays, written specifically for The Funambulist weblog from June 2011 to November 2012. The idea of complementing Lamberts own texts on his blog with those written by others originated from the idea that having friends communicate with each other about their work could help develop mutual interests and provide a platform to address an audience. Thirty-nine authors of twenty-three nationalities were given the opportunity to write essays about a part of their work that might fit with the blogs editorial line. Overall, two families of texts emerged, collected in two distinct parts in this volume. The first one, The Power of the Line, explores the legal, geographical and historical politics of various places of the world. The second, Architectural Narratives, approaches architecture in a mix of things that were once called philosophy, literature and art. This dichotomy represents the blogs editorial line and can be reconciled by the obsession of approaching architecture without care for the limits of a given discipline. This method, rather than adopting the contemporary architects syndrome that consists in talking about everything but being an expert in nothing, attempts to consider architecture as something embedded within (geo)political, cultural, social, historical, biological, and dromological mechanisms that widely exceed what is traditionally understood as the limits of its expertise. TABLE OF CONTENTS WALKING ON A TIGHT ROPE INTRODUCTION Leopold Lambert ENTROPY, LAW AND FUNAMBULISM Lucy Finchett-Madock THE CLEAR-BLURRY LINE Daniel Fernandez Pascual POST-POLITICAL ATTITUDES ON IMMIGRATION, UTOPIAS AND THE SPACE BETWEEN US Ethel Baraona Pohl & Cesar Reyes THE MOSQUE RELIGION, POLITICS AND ARCHITECTURE IN THE 21ST CENTURY Michael Badu NOTHING TO HIDE Mariabruna Fabrizi & Fosco Lucarelli BRIEFLY ON WALKING Caroline Filice Smith FEMICIDE MACHINEBACKYARD Greg Barton BECOMING FUGITIVE CARCERAL SPACE AND RANCIERIAN POLITICS Maryam Monalisa Gharavi MY DEAR FRANCIS . . . WHAT KIND OF PHOENIX WILL ARISE FROM THESE ASHES? Nikolas Patsopoulos MOVEMENT AND SOLIDARITY Zayd Sifri OPEN STACKS Liduam Pong A VISIT TO THE OLD CITY OF HEBRON Raja Shehadeh LAHORES ARCHITECTURE OF INSECURITY Sadia Shirazi RUIN MACHINE Bryan Finoki THE TEXTUAL-SONIC LANDSCAPE OF JACQUES PERRETS DES FORTIFICATIONS ET ARTIFICES Morgan Ng MAPPING INTERVALS TOWARDS AN EMANCIPATED CARTOGRAPHY Nora Akawi THE FUNAMBULIST ATMOSPHERE Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos APIAN SEMANTICS Matthew Clements DISSOLVING MINDS AND BODIES Hiroko Nakatani THOUGHTS ON META-VIRTUAL SOLIPSISM Fredrik Hellberg OLD MEDIAS RESURRECTION Linnea Hussein CINEMATIC CATALYSTS CONTEMPT + CASA MALAPARTE Danielle Willems OFF THE GRID LEFT OUT AND OVER Carl Douglas TRANSCENDENT DELUSION OR THE DANGEROUS FREE SPACES OF PHILLIP K. DICK Martin Byrne THE POSSIBLE WORLDS OF ARCHITECTURE Claire Jamieson PET ARCHITECTURE HUMANS BEST FRIEND Carla Leitao BREAD AND CIRCUS AGORAE VS ARENAS Eduardo McIntosh MOTION ARCHITECTURE Oliviu Lugojan-Ghenciu FIBROUS ASSEMBLAGES AND BEHAVIORAL COMPOSITES Roland Snooks UNFOLDING AZADI TOWER READING PERSIAN FOLDS THROUGH DELEUZE Biayna Bogosian TWIN (TECHNOLOGYART INDUCED) ARCHITECTURAL DAYDREAMS Esther Sze-Wing Cheung DIY BIOPOLITICS THE DEREGULATED SELF Russel Hughes TWO QUESTIONS FOR SEHER SHAH Alexis Bhagat THE GROUNDBRAKING CLARITY OF RYAN AND TREVOR OAKES Eve Bailey WOULD HAVE BEEN . . . AN INVENTORY Camille Lacadee

Author: Arthur M. Melzer File Type: epub Philosophical esotericismthe practice of communicating ones unorthodox thoughts between the lineswas a common practice until the end of the eighteenth century. The famous Encyclopedie of Diderot, for instance, not only discusses this practice in over twenty different articles, but admits to employing it itself. The history of Western thought contains hundreds of such statements by major philosophers testifying to the use of esoteric writing in their own work or others. Despite this long and well-documented history, however, esotericism is often dismissed today as a rare occurrence. But by ignoring esotericism, we risk cutting ourselves off from a full understanding of Western philosophical thought.Arthur M. Melzer serves as our deeply knowledgeable guide in this capacious and engaging history of philosophical esotericism. Walking readers through both an ancient (Plato) and a modern (Machiavelli) esoteric work, he explains what esotericism isand is not. It relies not on secret codes, but simply on a more intensive use of familiar rhetorical techniques like metaphor, irony, and insinuation. Melzer explores the various motives that led thinkers in different times and places to engage in this strange practice, while also exploring the motives that lead more recent thinkers not only to dislike and avoid this practice but to deny its very existence. In the books final section, A Beginners Guide to Esoteric Reading, Melzer turns to how we might once again cultivate the long-forgotten art of reading esoteric works. Philosophy Between the Lines is the first comprehensive, book-length study of the history and theoretical basis of philosophical esotericism, and it provides a crucial guide to how many major writingsphilosophical, but also theological, political, and literarywere composed prior to the nineteenth century.**

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Author: Christopher Caldwell File Type: mobi In light of cultural crises such as the Danish cartoon controversy and the terrorist attack on the Charlie Hebdo newspaper in Paris, Christopher Caldwells incisive perspective has never been more timely or indispensible. Reflections on the Revolution in Europe is destined to become the classic work on how Muslim immigration permanently reshaped the West. This provocative and unflinching analysis of Europes unexpected influx of immigrants investigates the increasingly prominent Muslim populations actively shaping the future of the continent. Muslims dominate or nearly dominate many important European cities, including Amsterdam and Rotterdam, Strasbourg and Marseille, the Paris suburbs and East London, and in those cities Islam has challenged the European way of life at every turn, becoming, in effect, an adversary culture. In Reflections on the Revolution in Europe, Caldwell examines the anger of natives and newcomers alike. He exposes the strange ways in which welfare states interact with Third World customs, the anti-Americanism that brings European natives and Muslim newcomers together, and the arguments over women and sex that drive them apart. He considers the appeal of sharia, resistance, and jihad to a second generation that is more alienated from Europe than the first, and addresses a crisis of faith among native Europeans that leaves them with a weak hand as they confront the claims of newcomers. **