3 documents
History/Theory
Pre/post/erous Histories
Spyros Papapetros
Architecture Essay
Posted: November 9, 2018
Category
Architecture
Subjects
Historicity & Historiography, Archeology, Time, Knowledge Production
Superhumanity
The Birth of Design
Spyros Papapetros
Architecture Essay
Posted: November 23, 2016
Category
Bodies, Design, Nature & Ecology
Subjects
Animals, Decoration & Ornamentation
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Darwin’s Dog and the Parasol: Cultural Reactions to Animism
Spyros Papapetros
Picture an English garden on a hot summer day in the early 1870s. Charles Darwin is resting on a bamboo armchair in the backyard of his Down House at Kent, with his dog beside him. One or more women must have been strolling around, leaving an open parasol behind. Suddenly a slight breeze blows, the parasol moves, and the dog starts growling. The stillness of the picturesque landscape is instantly shattered and from the English countryside we are suddenly thrown into the jungle:
The…
e-flux Journal
Posted: July 1, 2012
Subjects
Animism, Animals, Human - Nonhuman Relations