Category Archives: Sunday Lens
Dangling Man
A brief encounter with kitsch and folk art in an excerpt from Saul Bellow’s (wonderful) 1944 evisceration of individual dislocation in wartime Chicago ‘Dangling Man’.
Dangling Man
A brief encounter with kitsch and folk art in an excerpt from Saul Bellow’s (wonderful) 1944 evisceration of individual dislocation in wartime Chicago ‘Dangling Man’.
Thoughts on constructionism
Tito Arecchi on ‘constructionism’, from his essay ‘Chaos and Complexity’ of 1989.
Thoughts on constructionism
Tito Arecchi on ‘constructionism’, from his essay ‘Chaos and Complexity’ of 1989.
The System of Objects
Consider a nondescript, light, foldable table or a bed without legs, frame or canopy – an absolute cipher of a bed, one might say: all such objects, with their ‘pure’ outlines, no longer resemble even what they are; they have
The System of Objects
Consider a nondescript, light, foldable table or a bed without legs, frame or canopy – an absolute cipher of a bed, one might say: all such objects, with their ‘pure’ outlines, no longer resemble even what they are; they have
Le virus de la pneumanie
This week’s Lens focuses on the reactionary and the ephemeral via an excerpt from C & P Fiell’s introduction to their fantastic monograph ‘Plastic Dreams: Synthetic Visions in Design’.
Le virus de la pneumanie
This week’s Lens focuses on the reactionary and the ephemeral via an excerpt from C & P Fiell’s introduction to their fantastic monograph ‘Plastic Dreams: Synthetic Visions in Design’.
Entropy Made Visible
This from Robert Smithson’s Interview with Alison Sky, about two months before the artist’s death in 1973. One wonders what Smithson would have made of the internet.
Entropy Made Visible
This from Robert Smithson’s Interview with Alison Sky, about two months before the artist’s death in 1973. One wonders what Smithson would have made of the internet.
Le Modulor
From the preamble to Le Corbusier’s The Modulor, circa 1954 -
“Nothing that is built, constructed, divided into lengths, widths or volumes, has yet enjoyed the advantage of a measure equivalent to that possessed by music…”
Le Modulor
From the preamble to Le Corbusier’s The Modulor, circa 1954 -
“Nothing that is built, constructed, divided into lengths, widths or volumes, has yet enjoyed the advantage of a measure equivalent to that possessed by music…”
