Issue #47 The Society Without Qualities

The Society Without Qualities

Lars Bang Larsen

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Issue #47
September 2013










Notes
1

Fernand Braudel, Afterthoughts on Material Civilization and Capitalism (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979), 64.

2

Jacob Burckhardt, The State as a Work of Art (London: Penguin, 2010 (1860), 2.

3

Ibid., 8, 87, and 95.

4

Cf. Ritchie Robertson’s essay “Burckhardt’s Renaissance, 150 years later.”

5

Burckhardt, The State as a Work of Art, 40.

6

T. W. Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life (London: Verso, 2005 (1951)), 156.

7

Georges Perec, An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris, trans. Marc Lowenthal (Cambridge, MA: Wakefield Press, 2010 (1974)).

8

In an email to the author on October 11, 2012. Ulrika Flink is Assistant Curator at Tensta Konsthall.

9

Robert Musil, Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2013 (1930–1942)), 107.

10

See Andrea Branzi on Archizoom Associati, quoted in Pier Vittorio Aureli, The Project of Autonomy: Politics and Architecture within and Against Capitalism (Princeton, NJ: Princeton Architectural Press, 2008), 75.

11

Félix Guattari, The Three Ecologies, trans. Ian Pindar and Paul Sutton (London: The Athlone Press, 2000 (1989)), 29.

12

From Jaime Stapleton’s text “The Monologue,” part of Learning Site’s sound piece Audible Dwelling 0.2 (2013).

13

In a telephone conversation with the author, May 21, 2013.

14

Baudrillard, “Utopia Deferred” (1969), in Baudrillard, Utopia Deferred: Writings for Utopie (1967– 1978), trans. Stuart Kendall (New York: Semiotext(e), 2006), 62.

15

Manuel Castells, The Rise of the Network Society, 2nd ed. (Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), 484.