2 documents
Superhumanity
Storage Space
Giuliana Bruno
Architecture Essay
Posted: November 16, 2016
Category
Design
Subjects
Libraries & Archives, Memory, Materialism, Human - Nonhuman Relations
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Surface Encounters
Giuliana Bruno
I say therefore that likenesses or thin shapes
Are sent out from the surfaces of things
Which we must call as it were their films or bark.
—Titus Lucretius Carus, De rerum natura 1
In reflecting upon the nature of things, Lucretius suggests that we consider surfaces as anything but superficial. Yet, despite such consideration in antiquity, there has been a tendency in recent times to denigrate surfaces as just that. But why attach a negative connotation to what is a…
e-flux Journal
Posted: May 1, 2015
Category
Bodies
Subjects
Optics & Perception, Affect