History/Theory - Stephan Trüby - Positioning Architecture (Theory)

Positioning Architecture (Theory)

Stephan Trüby

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A public footpath runs above and around the central courtyard of James Stirling's 1984 Neue Staatsgalerie. Photo: flickr/Branden.

History/Theory
December 2017










Notes
1

Christian Kühn, “Provvisorio,” in “Plenum: Orte der Macht,” special issue, UmBau 27 (2014), 14.

2

As proposed for example by Armin Nassehi in: Die letzte Stunde der Wahrheit. Warum rechts und links keine Alternativen mehr sind und Gesellschaft ganz anders beschrieben werden muss (Hamburg: Murmann, 2015).

3

Slavoj Žižek, “The Populist Temptation,” in The Great Regression, ed. Heinrich Geiselberger (Polity, 2017).

4

For example, Jean-Luc Mélenchon; one could also mention elements of the Anti-Chris-Dercon-Front at the Volksbühne in Berlin. See: Michael Magercord, “Israel, Islam, Sicherheit: Wie die Präsidentschaftskandidaten zu Themen stehen, die der jüdischen Gemeinde wichtig sind,” Jüdische Allgemeine (September 27, 2017), .

5

Ibid., Žižek, 193.

6

The “Querfront” or “Third Position” in Germany is epitomized by, for example, formerly left-wing radical, and now right-wing to extreme-right converts like Frank Böckelmann, Jürgen Elsässer, Peter Furth, Horst Mahler, Bernd Rabehl, or even Rüdiger Safranski.

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9

Martin Heidegger, “Building, Dwelling, Thinking,” in Poetry. Language, Thought (New York: Harper Colophon, 1971), 154, as quoted in Kenneth Frampton, “Towards a Critical Regionalism: Six Points for an Architecture of Resistance,” in The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture, ed. Hal Foster (Port Townsend, WA: Bay Press, 1983), 24–25.

10

Hans Sedlmayr, “Die Kugel als Gebäude, oder: Das Bodenlose” (1939), in Revolutionsarchitektur: Klassische Beiträge zu einer unklassischen Architektur, ed. Klaus Jan Philipp, Bauwelt Fundamente 82 (Braunschweig/Wiesbaden: Vieweg, 1990), 126.

11

Michel Foucault, “Of Other Spaces,” trans. Jay Miskowiec, Diacritics 16, no. 1 (Spring 1986): 26.

12

Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature, trans. Dana Polan (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1986), 73–74.

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