Theory's Curriculum - Nick Axel and Nikolaus Hirsch - Editorial

Editorial

Nick Axel and Nikolaus Hirsch

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Fragment of Cornelis van Haarlem, Antrum Platonicum (Plato's Cave), 1604, engraving. Source: British Museum.

Theory's Curriculum
April 2019










Notes
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Instead, those same models have propagated, following the production of a spate of anthologies during the 1990s that compiled the texts assumed necessary to teach them. Sylvia Lavin, “Theory into History; Or, the Will to Anthology.” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 58, no. 3 (September 1999): 494–499.

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McKenzie Wark, “Introduction,” in General Intellects: Twenty-Five Thinkers for the Twenty-First Century (New York: Verso, 2017), 1–15. As Norman Contor argued in the late 1990s, Derrida and Foucault must be seen as the products of unique contexts of an elitist educational system, mixed with the freedoms given to those at its apex, and the demand French culture placed upon the production of philosophical thought. See Norman F. Cantor, The American Century: Varieties of Culture in Modern Times (Harper Collins, 1997), 449.