THE FUNAMBULIST
The Funambulist is a daily architectural platform edited by Léopold Lambert.Its name is inspired by a reflection on the line as the architect's medium. In fact, this line on the white page that ends up spliting two milieus from one another, controls the access of the bodies. The act of walking on the line (funambulist is another word for tight-rope walker) thus becomes an act of freedom. It also refers to Philippe Petit crossing illegally the space between the two towers of the World Trade Center in 1974 and the funambulist in Nietzsche's Zarathoustra who dies peacefully as he died from the danger he dedicated his life to.
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Search Results for: cyclonopedia
# PHILOSOPHY /// Leper Creativity: Cyclonopedia Symposium’s Book
Cover of Leper Creativity by Perry Hall: Sound Drawing 07-04 (2007) Invention is the transposition of one phase state to another, of one resonance on top of another, and it expresses therefore the deep recomposability, indeed deep recomputability, of worldly … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Lectures and Symposiums, Literature, Philosophy
# PHILOSOPHY /// Oil as the Black Corpse of the Sun (Cyclonopedia + Jarhead)
Still from Jarhead by Sam Mendes (2005) Oil is a fascinating geological product that contains in itself thousands of years old fossils and sediments and which drives explicitly or implicitly the majority of the world geopolitical behaviors. In his book … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema, Philosophy
# PHILOSOPHY /// Cyclonopedia Symposium’s lectures are archived and visible online
“If, in middle-eastern tradition, gods deliberately allow themselves to be killed left and right by enemies, humans, or themselves without any prudence as to their future and eventual extinction, it is because they find more significance and benefit in their … Continue reading
Posted in Lectures and Symposiums, Philosophy
# PHILOSOPHY /// Leper Creativity: Cyclonopedia Symposium to be watched live
Good news for the non New Yorkers or people could not be at Parsons this Friday for the first Cyclonopedia Symposium, Leper Creativity (see the previous article I write about it with the links about Cyclonopedia on the Funambulist) organized … Continue reading
Posted in Lectures and Symposiums, Philosophy
# PHILOSOPHY /// Leper Creativity: Cyclonopedia Symposium I at the New School (NYC)
Parsons assistant dean, Ed Keller with Nicola Masciandaro and Eugene Thacker are organizing on March 11st, the first symposium around a book I have been writing about several time on this blog: Cyclonopedia by Iranian Philosopher Reza Negarestani. The symposium … Continue reading
Posted in Lectures and Symposiums, Philosophy
# PHILOSOPHY /// Exhumation & Architecture in Cyclonopedia by Reza Negarestani
Goreme in Capadocia (Turkey) / photo by Louise Frenico “Mehrdad Iravanian, the Iranian architect once suggested, ‘In order to study architecture, one must first investigate necrocracy.’ But we should go further: one must practice the art of exhumation too.“ Reza … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophy
# PHILOSOPHY /// CYCLONOPEDIA. Complicity with Anonymous Materials by Reza Negarestani
Cyclonopedia is one of those books that drives you ecstatic for being so different from anything you have ever read so far. In this book, Iranian Philosopher Reza Negarestani elaborates a beautiful narrative of the Middle East seen as a … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophy, Politics
# HISTORY /// Abject Matter: The Barricade and the Tunnel for LOG 25
As I wrote in a previous post, I was lucky enough to be included in LOG 25 Reclaim Resi[lience]stance, edited by Cynthia Davidson and curated by François Roche. My essay consisted in a historical philosophical interpretation of the two very … Continue reading
# DELEUZE /// Transpierce the Mountains: Indian Medieval Art History by Élie Faure
Ajanta Caves in Maharashtra In their Treatise on Nomadology, Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari introduce their concept of Holey Space (see previous article) by the following injunction: Metallurgical India. Transpierce the mountains instead of scaling them, excavate the land instead … Continue reading
Posted in Deleuze, Fine Arts, History, India, Philosophy
# PHILOSOPHY /// Pulse Demons by Eugene Thacker
The human swarm in Dante’s Divine Comedy by Gustave Doré Regular readers of the Funambulist have read about Eugene Thacker at least for the Cyclonopedia symposium he organized at the New School with Ed Keller and Nicola Masciandaro and the … Continue reading
Posted in Essays, Music, Philosophy
# CINEMA /// Corrupted Materials: Michelangelo Antonioni’s Dark Materialism in Red Desert
Red Desert is the first color movie by Michelangelo Antonioni. First released in 1964, this film is indeed an extraordinary dialogue between bright chemical colors and industrial variety of greys. I don’t want to give too many indications about the … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema, Essays, Philosophy
# CINEMA /// The Paradigm of Modern Cinema: The Cinematographic Introspection (Godard, Fellini, Truffaut, Assayas & Hansen-Love)
One of the element that created modernism is the introspection accomplished by artistic disciplines for what they really are, followed by the expression of such look on itself. This introspection has been set in motion much before the XXth century, … Continue reading
# DELEUZE /// Michel Serres, Gilles Deleuze and Reza Negarestani on Fractal Ontology
picture: Four Birds Mixed media on paper (Catheryn Austen) The following essay comes from the website Fractal Ontology created by Joseph Weissman and Taylor Adkins which attempt to develop a multi-disciplinary discourse based on philosophy, psychoanalysis and science. This text, … Continue reading
Posted in Deleuze, Philosophy
# FUNAMBULISTS /// Sympathy with the obstacle / Parkour in Gaza
“Thus, hostile urbanists or militias always conduct the battle towards the inside, or the domain of obstacles, the urban canyon. When it comes to urbanized war, every combatant must think like an obstacle –‘See everything from the perspective of an … Continue reading
Posted in Funambulists, Palestine, Philosophy, Politics, Weaponized Architecture
# STUDENTS /// Design and Existential Risk. A series of lectures at Parsons
“These are the oldest memories on Earth, the time-codes carried in every chromosome and gene. Every step we’ve taken in our evolution is a milestone inscribed with organic memories- from the enzymes controlling the carbon dioxide cycle to the organization … Continue reading
