2016-02-11
Manuel DeLanda. A Materialist Theory of Language. 2011
source: European Graduate School 2012年11月13日
http://www.egs.edu/ Manuel Delanda, contemporary philosopher, uses assemblage theory to provide a materialist theory of language. In the process, DeLanda confronts linguists such as Noam Chomsky, William Labov, and Ferdinand de Saussure. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland. 2011 Manuel DeLanda.
Manuel DeLanda, (born 1952 in Mexico City), is a writer, artist and distinguished philosopher who has lived in New York since 1975. He is a professor and the Gilles Deleuze Chair of Contemporary Philosophy and Science at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, a professor at the Canisius College in Buffalo, New York, and professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. DeLanda was formerly an Adjunct Associate Professor at Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University (New York).
He is the author of War In the Age of Intelligent Machines (1991), A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History (1997), Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy (2002), A New Philosophy of Society: Assemblage Theory and Social Complexity (2006), Deleuze: History and Science (2010), and Philosophy and Simulation: The Emergence of Synthetic Reason (2011). He has published many articles and essays and lectured extensively in Europe and in the United States. His work focuses on the theories of the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze on one hand, and modern science, self-organizing matter, artificial life and intelligence, economics, architecture, chaos theory, history of science, nonlinear science, cellular automata on the other. De Landa became a principal figure in the "new materialism" based on his application of Deleuze's realist ontology. His universal research into "morphogenesis" - the production of the semi-stable structures out of material flows that are constitutive of the natural and social world - has been of interest to theorists across many academic and professional disciplines.
Construction Grammar--Martin Hilpert / University of Neuchâtel
# automatic playing for the 11 videos (click the up-left corner for the list)
source: Martin Hilpert 上次更新日期：2014年4月4日
This is a list of lecture videos that accompany the book 'Construction Grammar and its Application to English.' http://global.oup.com/academic/produc...
New Construction Grammar Textbook 10:53
source: Martin Hilpert 上次更新日期：2014年4月4日
This is a list of lecture videos that accompany the book 'Construction Grammar and its Application to English.' http://global.oup.com/academic/produc...
New Construction Grammar Textbook 10:53
Construction morphology 51:11
An introduction to English Linguistics--Martin Hilpert / University of Neuchâtel
# automatic playing for the 23 videos (click the up-left corner for the list)
source: Martin Hilpert 上次更新日期：2014年6月25日
An introduction to English Linguistics 26:46
Human language and animal communication 29:50
Words and morphemes 29:10
Word formation processes 33:56
Morphological productivity 35:34
Word classes and syntactic constituency 32:45
Lexical and syntactic ambiguity 26:39
Syntactic phrase structures 35:41
Sense relations 23:55
Metaphor and metonymy 39:06
Frame semantics 30:36
Speech acts and conversational maxims 31:13
Analyzing spoken conversation 42:06
Information structure 29:48
The prehistory of English 36:47
Old English and Middle English 26:11
The Great Vowel Shift 24:27
Understanding words and sentences 35:57
Producing words and sentences 21:21
Sociolinguistics - the study of variation in language 36:50
Language, gender, and sexual orientation 35:14
First language acquisition 49:01
Learning first words 33:20
source: Martin Hilpert 上次更新日期：2014年6月25日
An introduction to English Linguistics 26:46
Human language and animal communication 29:50
Words and morphemes 29:10
Word formation processes 33:56
Morphological productivity 35:34
Word classes and syntactic constituency 32:45
Lexical and syntactic ambiguity 26:39
Syntactic phrase structures 35:41
Sense relations 23:55
Metaphor and metonymy 39:06
Frame semantics 30:36
Speech acts and conversational maxims 31:13
Analyzing spoken conversation 42:06
Information structure 29:48
The prehistory of English 36:47
Old English and Middle English 26:11
The Great Vowel Shift 24:27
Understanding words and sentences 35:57
Producing words and sentences 21:21
Sociolinguistics - the study of variation in language 36:50
Language, gender, and sexual orientation 35:14
First language acquisition 49:01
Learning first words 33:20
Rick Roderick: The Self Under Siege: Philosophy in the Twentieth Century (1993)
# automatic playing for the 8 videos (click the up-left corner for the list)
source: The Partially Examined Life 2012年1月25日
For more information, see http://www.rickroderick.org
Rick Roderick on The Masters of Suspicion [full length] 48:03
Rick Roderick on Heidegger - The Rejection of Humanism [full length] 44:52
Rick Roderick on Sartre - The Road to Freedom [full length] 39:58
Rick Roderick on Marcuse - One-Dimensional Man [full length] 45:23
Rick Roderick on Habermas - The Fragile Dignity of Humanity [full length] 47:34
Rick Roderick on Foucault - The Disappearance of the Human [full length] 45:47
Rick Roderick on Derrida - The Ends of Man [full length] 44:13
Rick Roderick on Baudrillard - Fatal Strategies [full length] 48:03
source: The Partially Examined Life 2012年1月25日
For more information, see http://www.rickroderick.org
Rick Roderick on The Masters of Suspicion [full length] 48:03
Rick Roderick on Heidegger - The Rejection of Humanism [full length] 44:52
Rick Roderick on Sartre - The Road to Freedom [full length] 39:58
Rick Roderick on Marcuse - One-Dimensional Man [full length] 45:23
Rick Roderick on Habermas - The Fragile Dignity of Humanity [full length] 47:34
Rick Roderick on Foucault - The Disappearance of the Human [full length] 45:47
Rick Roderick on Derrida - The Ends of Man [full length] 44:13
Rick Roderick on Baudrillard - Fatal Strategies [full length] 48:03
Rick Roderick on Habermas - The Fragile Dignity of Humanity [full length]
source: The Partially Examined Life 2012年1月25日
This video is 5th in the 8-part video lecture series, The Self Under Siege: Philosophy in the Twentieth Century (1993).
Lecture notes:
I. Habermas is perhaps the last important defender of a kind of rationalism that attempts to save the contributions of modernity, while recognizing its distortions and pathologies. He will attempt to disentangle enlightenment in myth in the name of human emancipation free from unnecessary constraints.
II. Habermas begins his project with a distinction between labor (as analyzed by Marx) and interaction. The first is based on production, the second on communication. The first is monological, the second dialogical. Freud serves as the model for the study of distorted forms of speech and action upon which a critical theory of society can take its start.
III. But to criticize distorted communication, a model of undistorted communication is required. Habermas seeks to develop an argument that the human species has a fundamental interest in undistorted communication that is built into the very structure of language.
IV. Undistorted communication must meet four conditions; the symmetry condition (everyone has an equal chance to talk and listen); the sincerity condition (everyone discloses what they believe to be true); the normative condition (everyone attempts to say what is right morally).
V. Such communication would make a free society possible in which the only force a free person must recognize is "the unforced force of the better argument". This is not just an elitist notion, since "in a process of enlightenment there can only be participants".
VI. Undistorted speech and action opens us up to the concept of communicative rationality that acts as a counter concept to merely instrumental rationality as criticized by Marcuse. For Habermas, we should seek a balance between instrumental and critical reason, between science and the ethical and the aesthetic dimensions that have been unbalanced by power and money, state and economy.
VII. The fragile self is caught between these abstract systems of control in its struggle for autonomy and meaning. Habermas' project for emancipation holds out the hope that a measure of the dignity of humanity can be rescued from the one-sided development of modernity through the power of solidarity and reason.
VIII. Habermas' project is ongoing, and includes activity in the public sphere where alone the promise of a reasoned consensus based on undistorted communication might be fulfilled.
For more information, see http://www.rickroderick.org
Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design 2015: Madrid RÍO
source: Harvard GSD 2016年2月3日
02/02/2016
The 12th Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design has been awarded to Madrid RÍO, a new linear park in Madrid designed by a team led by Ginés Garrido of Burgos & Garrido, including Porras & La Casta, Rubio & Álvarez-Sala, and West 8. The park entailed the creation of 120 hectares of new public space, which encompasses dozens of sports areas (tennis and basketball courts, soccer fields, fitness areas, rock climbing center, skate park), greenswards, plazas, cafes and restaurants, an orchard, an urban beach, children’s play areas, plus 30 kilometers of cycling paths and 11 new footbridges. The project also prompted the restoration of five historic dams and two historic bridges (the Puente de Segovia and Puente de Toledo), as well as the refurbishment of highway bridges and the recuperation of areas surrounding these infrastructural works. With these new river crossings and the incorporation of existing historic features into the new park plan, Madrid RÍO has strengthened surrounding neighborhoods’ connection to the new amenities and to each other.
According to Professor Rahul Mehrotra, chair of the jury, the decision to award Madrid Río the Green Prize was motivated by the jury’s desire to highlight the potential for thoughtfully planned and carefully executed mobility infrastructures to transform a city and its region. The extent to which the project harnesses the deployment of new infrastructures as an opportunity to repair and regenerate the city through carefully articulated design interventions is particularly valuable within the context of contemporary urbanization globally. The award ceremony will feature a brief presentation on the project by Ginés Garrido of Burgos & Garrido, with other team members in attendance. An exhibition on the project is on view in the Gund Hall lobby from January 19 to March 6, 2016.
Organization or Design? Giovanna Borasi
source: Harvard GSD 2016年2月2日
Further continuing the event “Symposium on Architecture: Organization or Design?” this event investigates how theories and systems of organization are conceived and enacted, and ponders their outcomes and disciplinary implications in design.Giovanna Borasi is an architect and Chief Curator of the Canadian Centre for Architecture. At the CCA she has curated exhibitions and edited related books, with a particular focus on how environmental and social issues influence today’s urbanism and architecture. Among her exhibitions and books are Imperfect Health: The Medicalization of Architecture (2012); Journeys: How Travelling Fruit, Ideas, and Buildings Rearrange our Environment (2010); Sorry, Out of Gas: Architecture’s Response to the 1973 Oil Crisis (2007); and Environ(ne)ment: Approaches for Tomorrow (2006).A diagram by Cedric Price for the Light Enclosures Unit illustrating how concepts of use vary between users’ requirements and producers’ provisions of inflatables, and where research could help. Date unknownCedric Price fonds, CCA© CCA, Montréal
Organization or Design? George Legendre and Hanif Kara; Moderated by Mar...
source: Harvard GSD 2016年1月29日
01/29/16- Following the event “Symposium on Architecture: Organization or Design?” which took place in fall 2015, this event investigates how theories and systems of organization are conceived and enacted and ponders their outcomes and disciplinary implications. Moderated by Mariana Ibañez, associate professor of architecture, with George Legendre, associate professor in practice of architecture, and Hanif Kara, professor in practice of architectural technology.
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