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Constructions

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title	:	Constructions Writing Architecture
author	:	Rajchman, John.
publisher	:	MIT Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0262680963
print isbn13	:	9780262680967
ebook isbn13	:	9780585002736
language	:	English
subject	Architecture, Modern--20th century--Philosophy.
publication date	:	1998
lcc	:	NA680.R333 1998eb
ddc	:	724/.6
subject	:	Architecture, Modern--20th century--Philosophy.

Page ii Writing Architecture A project of the Anyone Corporation Earth Moves: The Furnishing of Territories Bernard Cache, 1995 Architecture as Metaphor: Language, Number, Money Kojin Karatani, 1995 Differences: Topographies of Contemporary Architecture Ignasi de Sol-Morales, 1996 Constructions John Rajchman, 1997

Page iii The MIT Press Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England Constructions John Rajchman

Page iv 1998 Massachusetts Institute of Technology All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval) without permission in writing from the publisher. This book was set in Janson by The MIT Press and was printed and bound in the United States of America. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Rajchman, John. Constructions/John Rajchman p. cm.(Writing architecture) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-262-68096-3 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. Architecture, Modern20th centuryPhilosophy. I. Title. II. Series. NA680.R3331998 724'.6dc21 97-35756 CIP

Page v Foreword by Paul Virilio vii one Constructions 1 two Folding 11 three Lightness 37 four Abstraction 55 five Grounds 77 six Other Geometries 91 seven Future Cities 109 eight The Virtual House 115 Index of Names 142

Page vii Foreward

Page viii used to lift up, seemingly effortlessly, what weighs down, it is like the concept that allows what thinks and is thought to be released and take off. If the rapid shuttle is the perfect illustration of the constant feedback of our now globalized Time, the pivot of the pulley would then represent the axis of a Time belonging to a reason that tries to disclose the hidden meaning of the Event. Concerned with the endgame of this pitiless century, and especially the end of a world brought about through global "teletechnologies" of action at a distance, John Rajchman's philosophy occupies the privileged space of this back and forth trajectory, from here to there, from one side to the other. Whereas ancient metaphysical philosophy was essentially concerned with subject and object, contemporary metageophysical telephilosophy is preoccupied less with Nietzsche's eternal return than its ultimate velocity. Flashback, feedback: so many unsuspected philosophical terms. "Everything is governed by lightning," said the old Heraclitus. More than two millennia later this has now been realized on a global scale! We are not so much at the end of history as at the end of the geographical world whose ancient distances of time once instigated the distancing of presence. Confronted with the transrapid "shuttle," only the transpatient "pulley" can free reason from the thunder of collective passions. John Rajchman is thus neither a foreigner nor exactly a "traveler." He is, in the first place, a vector of the virtual space that now secretly doubles the real space of the oceans that once separated continental nations, just as day and night divided the calendar of their activities. As it was once between Greece and ancient Rome, and then between France and England not so long ago, it is now at the threshold of Europe and the Americas that the drama of knowledge and the fate of the world is

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