Author: Reiner Schürmann File Type: pdf This volume tracks the crucial role of Reiner Schurmanns engagement with the work of Michel Foucault between 1983 and 1991. Drawing on Foucaults highly original reading of the philosophical tradition, Schurmann traces the status of identity and difference in Foucaults conception of history to develop a radical phenomenological understanding of anarchy. He examines the fate of philosophy after the critique of the subject and the collapse of the divide between theory and praxis, philosophy and politics. Taken together, these pivotal essays introduce the reader to Schurmanns most urgent concerns and assemble the conceptual tools that go on to lay the groundwork for his final work, Broken Hegemonies, which offers a subversive re-reading of the history of Western metaphysics outside of Foucaults genealogical approach. To the reader unfamiliar with Schurmanns work, these texts establish him as one of the most radical thinkers of the late 20th century, whose work might eventually become legible in our present.

Author: Frank Bechhofer File Type: pdf This practical introduction for first time researchers provides a bridge between how to conduct research and the philosophy of social science, allowing students to relate what they are doing to why. It does not provide a set of rigid recipes for social scientists as many methodology books do, rather it stimulates students to think about the issues involved when deciding upon their research design.By discussing standard approaches to research design and method in various social science disciplines, the authors illustrate why particular designs have traditionally predominated in certain areas of study. But whilst they acknowledge the strengths of these standard approaches, their emphasis is on helping researchers find the most effective solution to their problem by encouraging them, through this familiarity with the principles of various approaches, to innovate where appropriate. This text will prove indispensable for social science students of all levels embarking upon a research project, and for experienced researchers looking for a fresh perspective on their object of study.ReviewThis short book is an excellent introduction to the basic organizing principles that underlie social research design. . . . This is a well-written, nontechnical introduction to the issues that surround decision-making about research design that would be a valuable asset to the beginning social researcher.*Choice*About the AuthorFrank Bechofer is Professor at the Research Centre for Social Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. Lindsay Paterson is Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Edinburgh.

Author: Paul Dobraszczyk File Type: pdf Though reaching ever further toward the skies, todays cities are overshadowed by multiple threats climate change, overpopulation, social division, and urban warfare all endanger our metropolitan way of life. The fundamental tool we use to make sense of these uncertain city futures is the imagination. Architects, artists, filmmakers, and fiction writers have long been inspired to imagine cities of the future, but their speculative visions tend to be seen very differently from scientific predictions flights of fancy on the one hand versus practical reasoning on the other. In a digital age when the real and the fantastic coexist as near equals, it is especially important to know how these two forces are entangled, and how together they may help us best conceive of cities yet to come.Exploring a breathtaking range of imagined citiessubmerged, floating, flying, vertical, underground, ruined, and salvagedFuture Citiesteases out the links between speculation and reality, arguing that there is no clear separation between the two. In the Netherlands, prototype floating cities are already being built Dubais recent skyscrapers resemble those of science-fiction cities of the past while makeshift settlements built by the urban poor in the developing world are already like the dystopian cities of cyberpunk. Bringing together architecture, fiction, film, and visual art, Paul Dobraszczyk reconnects the imaginary city with the real, proposing a future for humanity that is firmly grounded in the present and in the diverse creative practices already at our fingertips.h3 Segoe UIReviewp Segoe UIDobraszczyks eloquent redefinition of ecology, of the imagination, and of architecture is breathtaking in its audacity and indisputably brilliant.Future Citiesis much more than a book about buildings orBlade Runner, dealing as it does with the critical importance of multiplicity and integration in an increasingly disordered world. (Australian)p Segoe UIFuture Citiesis a philosophically and culturally wideranging look at the usefulness of imagined cities. Appropriately for this examination of creativity, its classification of cities into three types is itself rather imaginative unmoored (in the water or air), vertical (skyscrapers and subterranean structures), and unmade (ruins). The text is accompanied by a number of images that usefully show how visual artists have imagined future cities. (Environment and Urbanization)p Segoe UIWhen we dream of the future, Dobraszczyk suggests in this rich and impeccably timed new book, we often dream of buildings. Dobraszczyk makes the case that visions of future worlds, from ancient myths to science fiction, are resolutely urban because of a deep imaginative pull that only cities can satisfy. (Geoff Manaugh, author of A Burglars Guide to the City)p Segoe UIA compendious, dizzying collection of the cities of the future, and their analogues in the present.Future Citiesholds out the important hope that our cities could be betterfairer, more equal, more openrather than just taller and weirder. (Owen Hatherley, author of Militant Modernism and Trans-Europe Express)p Segoe UIA fascinating, erudite survey of visionary cities, from the ocean depths to the skies above. At once fantastical and meticulous, Dobraszczyks book is anchored like Robidas soaring airships to iron structures. An engaging and revealing text that demonstrates when we create speculative cities, whether utopian or dystopian, we are always writing about our present our dreams, our fears, and our memories. Delving into fictional places, we are delving into ourselves. (Darran Anderson, author of Imaginary Cities)p Segoe UIh3 Segoe UIAbout the Authorp Segoe UIPaul Dobraszczykis a researcher and writer and a teaching fellow at the Bartlett School of Architecture, London. He is the author ofThe Dead City Urban Ruins and the Spectacle of DecayandIron, Ornament and Architecture in Victorian Britain, as well as coeditor ofGlobal Undergrounds Exploring Cities Within, the last also published by Reaktion Books.

Author: Ellen Ray File Type: pdf