Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers
Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers
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Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers by Leonard Koren
The book is devoted to social and political interdependencies of life and work, the interdependencies in which the ideas of loss and deprivation are the founding incentives of the precariousness of the position and the status of the human subject. Loss of property in the economic sense, along with the loss of properties in epistemological terms have become a crucial measure of precarity through its dissociation from what Judith Butler calls the organization and protection of bodily needs. The book offers a proposition of multidisciplinary reading of origins and constructions of anxiety of loss as a constitutive trait of what may be called the economization (or, after Jean-Pierre Dupuy, economystifacion) of human condition through various discursive practices tying loss with lack, and in this way making the uncertainty of possessing certain properties into a sphere of politically controlled semi-ontological anxieties. The book also reads loss in terms of topographical disorientation and the idea of placelessness.Content
- What? Perishability and the idea of having time
- How? Poetically, contingently, plastically
- Why? Something, nothing and (Descartes') uncertainty
- Where? Places and spaces
- Who? We the precariat; or all together now
Target GroupsSocial Philosophers, Social Theorists, Cultural Theorists
The AuthorDr. Tadeusz Rachwal is professor at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw, Poland.
Leonard Koren, who was trained as an artist and architect, writes books about design and aesthetics. Among his most popular books are WABI SABI: For Artists, Design, Poets & Philosophers and Arranging Things: A Rhetoric of Object Placement. Cult-favorite Maruo has been discovered since the first publication of this book.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780981484600 |
| ISBN 10 | 0981484603 |
| Title | Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers |
| Author | Leonard Koren |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Imperfect Publishing |
| Year published | 2008-11-01 |
| Number of pages | 96 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |