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Nexus Network Journal 11,3
Baroque architect and mathematician Guarino Guarini is the subject of this issue of the Nexus Network Journal. A group of international scholars were invited to contribute papers that shed light on the unanswered questions in several areas: Baroque architecture in general and Guarini’s architecture in particular; philosophy; history of structural mechanics; mathematics and history of mathematics, cosmology. As always, the NNJ takes an interdisciplinary approach to the broad range of subjects that Guarini concerned himself with, thus the final results will add significantly to our understanding of how Guarini’s actual practical and technical processes were informed by knowledge of his multifaceted scientific and philosophical interests.
Eroticizing Aesthetics
Bringing together Bataille with Lacan and Nietzsche, Tim Themi examines the role of aesthetics implicit in each and how this invokes an erotic process celebrating the real of what is usually excluded from articulation. Bataille came to deem eroticism as the standpoint from which to grasp humanity as a whole, based on his understanding of our transition to humanity being founded on a series of taboos placed on inner animality. An erotic outlet for the latter was historically the aesthetic dimensions of our religions, but Bataille’s view of how this was gradually diminished has much in keeping with Nietzsche’s critique of Christian-Platonic dualism and Lacan’s of the desexualised Good of...
Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women
For a full list of entries and contributors, sample entries, and more, visit the Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women website. Featuring comprehensive global coverage of women's issues and concerns, from violence and sexuality to feminist theory, the Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women brings the field into the new millennium. In over 900 signed A-Z entries from US and Europe, Asia, the Americas, Oceania, and the Middle East, the women who pioneered the field from its inception collaborate with the new scholars who are shaping the future of women's studies to create the new standard work for anyone who needs information on women-related subjects.
Housing, Culture, and Design
This book originates in two symposia held during 1985 at the annual meetings of the Society for Applied Anthropology and the Environmental Design Research Association.
Semiotics around the World: Synthesis in Diversity
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Gender and the Built Environment
Papers submitted to the conference entitled: Emancipation as related to physical planning, housing and mobility in Europe, which was initiated by the Netherlands Ministry of Physical Planning, Housing and Environment and organized by the Section Emancipation of the Netherlands Institute for Physical Planning and Housing (SEIROV) in Driebergen in the Netherlands in September 1994.
Voices in the Street
This text is about gender, public space and media technology. From historical studies of the physical world to the future-oriented journeys into electronic space, this book offers an introduction to the vast cross-cultural differences in the social use of public spaces which may connect or isolate.
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