35. How to Think the Global with Mark Jarzombek
“Isn’t this desire for objectivity a modernist sentiment?” - VP “Where does one enter, and where does one exit out of the modern?” - MJ In today's episode, we engage in a far-ranging and open-ended discussion on the question of the global with my longtime collaborator Mark Jarzombek. Circulating around the question of the larger agenda of the global, discussion topics include the modernity and its critiques, the nation-state and its limits, autobiography and its pitfalls, and what are the ways in which global thinking (dis)connects with deconstruction. 2:31 Magdalenian culture and civilization: the caves. The Gravettians. 4:09 A Global History of Architecture textbook + GAHTC: what is this global project? 6:50 Modernism, Postmodernism, and the critical question of the “after the modern” 11:23 Modernism as dualism: the good and the bad in equal doses, continuously, vs a Hegelian dialectic (destruction at the end) 13:30 “How to develop a critique that doesn’t entrap you into being complicit in one side of the game or the other side of the game?” -MJ ‘Isn’t this desire for objectivity a modernist sentiment?’ -VP 14:26 “Where does one enter, and where does one exit out of the modern?” -MJ 17:43 Ethics, rights, powers, and personal agency 19:00 Give money to Greenpeace but not on the boat: individual agency and the social matrix 21:06 “Ethical in a particular way,” haunting to one’s subject-position 22:26 The shadowy terror of monotheism 23:35 The ‘Global’ as an ethics-opening term 25:04 Parallels and intersections of global histories with the craziness emerging with quantum theory in astrophysics 27:24 Uncertainty, possibility, and knowing (Meeting the Universe Halfway, Karen Barad) 28:04 What the people in Lascaux and Chauvet knew 28:14 “This sounds a little Hindu-ish to me, a little Vishnu,” and the conflicted presence of singular Judaism 34:36 Modernism and a vortex of non-dualities 36:42 Derrida as a “renegade rabbi”: reading from the margins 37:38 Connection between new materialism, French poststructuralism, psychoanalysis, Jewish philosophy and Buddhist thinking? 39:06 No singular global can apply to everything 39:13 Biography as entry? Significance of personal epistemologies in critical thinking of the world. 43:58 “Vishnu-Modernism” 45:35 the Post-Holocaust vs the Post-Colonial Global 1:00:20 Limitations of Derrida’s critiques: ethics and Buddha’s ear to the ground 1:03:19 “Other oralities need to be known.”: this is the global history project 1:05:33 “Writing on writing. Writing on writing on writing.” Iterations. 1:07:37 Writing corrodes oral-communicative structures
17 Jan 20191h 8min
34. On Enric Miralles with Ayad Rahmani
This week, we discuss the work, the working style and legacy of the late Catalonian architect, Enric Miralles with our guest Ayad Rahmani. Ayad is a Professor of Architecture at Washington State University. Image: Floor Plan of Hostalets Civic Center, El Croquis Magazine, 1995
2 Jan 201955min
33. The Story of Modern Indian Architecture with Amit Srivastava
This week, we discuss global history in our conversation with Amit Srivastava, Senior Lecturer at the University of Adelaide, on post-postcolonial history and historiography in the Indian Ocean context. Discussion topics include: history of the modern architecture of India, globalization and contemporary South Asian architecture and infrastructural history versus 'big-name' architectural history.
19 Des 201854min
32. Intuition and Uncertainty in Architectural Design: A Conversation with Lene Tranberg
Today we speculate about life, the purposes of life and architectural thinking with Danish architect Lene Tranberg, founding partner of Lundgaard & Tranberg in Copenhagen, Denmark. Discussion topics include: Phenomenology, the body in space, intuition as embedded knowledge, transcendence, doubt, translation, and striving to understand the interwoven character of material and place.
5 Des 20181h 2min
31. Apocaloptimism - Climate Change and global history with Daniel Barber.
This week we discuss the GAHTC module on Climate and Global History with Daniel Barber, Chair of the graduate Architecture group at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design. discussion topics include: ecology in non-modernist cultures, tropical modernism, new narratives of ecological thinking, designing for discomfort, and architecture as the mediation between the infrastructural and the personal. Image: Victor and Aladar Olgyay at the Princeton Architectural Laboratory, c. 1955
21 Nov 201855min
30. The Potential of Rigorous Inquiry with John Boylan
A great conversation with Seattle’s great conversation starter, John Boylan. We’ll discuss art and science, engineering, technology, industry and the potential of rigorous inquiry in both scientific and artistic explorations. John is a respected member of Seattle's technology community and instigator of interdisciplinary creative works such as 9e2 Seattle.
7 Nov 20181h 13min
29. On Conceptual Practice: Conversation with Rob Hutchison
We discuss the value and challenges of conceptual architectural practice with Seattle based architect Rob Hutchison. Discussion topics include: death and memory, memory versus intuition, dedication, client relations and the emotional engines of design.
24 Okt 20181h 1min
28. Cinema, New Media and Architecture with Yomi Braester
In this conversation with Yomi Breaester, Professor of Comparative Literature and Cinema Studies at the University of Washington, we discuss the many ways in which cinema and new media practices intersection with architecture as aesthetic and political practices. Discussion topics include: the chronotype, Tarkovsky’s Solaris, Peter Greenaway’s The Belly of an Architect, and Wong Kar Wai’s In the Mood for Love.
10 Okt 20181h 4min
