Architecture as Metaphor: Language, Number, Money (Writing Architecture)
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| Rating | : | 4.74 (991 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0262611139 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 246 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-05-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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He founded the New Associationist Movement (NAM) in Japan in 2000.. Kojin Karatani is a Japanese philosopher who teaches at Kinki University, Osaka, and Columbia University. He is the author of Architecture as Metaphor (MIT Press, 1995) and Origins of Modern Japanese Literature
Language Notes Text: English (translation) Original Language: Japanese
Better Late Than Never Lost Lacanian I am coming to this book a little over a decade too late. I had read Karatani's Transcritique, and I liked it very much. And so I decided to pick up this earlier book. Much like Transcritique, Architecture as Metaphor is wonderful and erudite, packed with many interesting ideas.Karatani's argument is that "architecture," broadly construed as making [poiesis], has been the dominant metaphor in Western philosophy, which becomes explicit in such names as "structuralism,. "Four Stars" according to niccolo raven. Excellent attempt to consider deconstruction as an architectural metaphor. The chapter on Wittgenstein and childhood learning is illuminating.. S.S said A tremendous accomplishment!. This book is a tremendous accomplishment. An intellectual pleasure. In the first half of the book, Karatani deals with what he calls "the will to architecture". According to him, the whole Western philosophy has been constructed on the basis of "the will to architecture" since Plato. (Can we see here the influence on Karatani from Nietzsche?) What is interesting in his attempt to deconstruct this "will to architecture", or a "building" constructed by it, is that he t
While in the present volume he mainly analyzes familiar Western texts, it is precisely for this reason that his voice discloses a distance that will add a new dimension to our English-language discourse.. Kojin Karatani, Japan's leading literary critic, is perhaps best known for his imaginative readings of Shakespeare, Soseki, Marx, Wittgenstein, and most recently Kant. In the three parts of the book, he analyzes the complex bonds between construction and deconstruction, thereby pointing to an alternative model of "secular criticism," but in the domain of philosophy rather than literary or cultural criticism.As Karatani claims in his introduction, because the will to architecture is practically nonoexistent in Japan, he must first assume a dual role: one that affirms the architectonic (by scrutinizing the suppressed function of form) and one that pushes formalism to its collapse (by invoking Kurt Godel's incompleteness theorem). His subsequent discussions trace a path through the work of Christopher Alexander, Jane Jacobs, Gilles Deleuze, and others. Finally, amidst the drive that motivates all formalization, he confronts an unbridgeable gap, an uncontrollable event encountered in the exchange with the other; thus his speculation turns toward global capital movement. His works, of which Origins of Modern Japanese Literat