Tag: Discourse

A More Perfect (Theoretical) Union: Engels, Haussmann, and Hooper

A More Perfect (Theoretical) Union: Engels, Haussmann, and Hooper BY EVAN HAZELETT April 8, 2019   “The very turmoil of the streets has something repulsive, something against which human nature rebels… And still they crowd by one another as though they had nothing in common… Everywhere barbarous indifference, hard egotism on one hand, and nameless [...]

The Forgotten Politics of Aesthetics

The Forgotten Politics of Aesthetics BY RUI SU March 30, 2019   The Problem The point of studying theory is to interrogate, to go beyond understanding grand philosophies and use those theories as a lens to illuminate and reexamine ourselves and our local contexts. At a place like the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), […]

State Simplifications and the Changing Landscapes of the Globalizing South

State Simplifications and the Changing Landscapes of the Globalizing South BY TIMOTHY RAVIS March 30, 2019   “…one might conjure up an exacting state official aspiring to a perfectly legible population with registered, unique names and addresses, living in grid settlements, pursuing single occupations, owning rectangular lots and planting a single crop, all of whose […]