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# 28
Eupalinos and the Duck: Conceptualism in Recent Architecture
Mona Mahall
Globalism in its Mobilized Form
Mobility in architecture means to mobilize—money, above all—on behalf of the immobile: to build more space in less time. This further confirms what theorists of the early twentieth century first recognized as modernity’s triumph of space over time, what Michel Foucault would later call the modern obsession with space. While the nineteenth century was preoccupied with time, evolution, cycles, and halt, the twentieth century was concerned with space—so much…
e-flux Journal
Posted: October 1, 2011
Category
Architecture, Globalization, Urbanism
Subjects
Conceptual & Post-Conceptual Art, Modernity
# 23
Wolf and Vampire: The Border Between Technology and Culture
Mona Mahall
Today, common sense tells us that the border between technology (formerly known as nature) and culture is a fluid one. It is common to describe technology as a cultural practice, or culture as a fabric of interwoven material, intellectual, and social techniques. Of course, there is an obvious interrelation between culture and technology in terms of method, media, and material, and it is not difficult to identify the technical aspects of texts, or the cultural implications of communication…
e-flux Journal
Posted: March 1, 2011
Category
Technology, Modernism
Subjects
Temporality, Science, Consciousness & Cognition, Modernity