Effecting Affection: The Corporeal Ethics of Gins and Arakawa

Autor/in	Bearn, Gordon C. F.
Titel	Effecting Affection: The Corporeal Ethics of Gins and Arakawa
Quelle	In: Journal of Aesthetic Education, 44 (2010) 2, S.40-49 (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0021-8510
Schlagwörter	Ethics; Architecture; Philosophy; Relevance (Education); Death + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ethik; Architektur; Philosophie; Relevance; Relevanz; Sterbefall; Tod; Todesfall
Abstract	This paper argues for the educational relevance of the apparently unbelievable project of the architects Arakawa and Gins to design houses that would grant their inhabitants immortality. First, the author demonstrates that, broadly conceived, this is a familiar philosophical project, perhaps "the" philosophical project. He then produces a reading of Gins and Arakawa's "Architectural Body" (2002) that suggests ways of conceiving the beginnings of their project within the tradition of aestheticism, the tradition that aims to make our lives beautiful. This is not immortality, but perhaps, by its Steinian refusal of identity, it is a beginning. (Contains 41 notes.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10