Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2013 in the subject Art - Architecture / History of Construction, language: English, abstract: This book discusses the many meanings of the concept of Mimesis in relation to Representation and Aesthetics, and to the problem of the meaning of the Beautiful and the Sublime in the arts, to which the notion of Rituality is proposed as a solution. Finally it opens the question of Performativity as a way of understanding our everyday experience of Architecture.

This monograph attempts to answer the question that is the key to the best of Faulkner: why is it that it is the most difficult and most transgressive of Faulkner's books that have attained classic status? I argue that difficulty in reading enacts and conceals, describes and performs, that is, both hides and provokes a search which is at once literary and anthropological, and intellectual and emotional. Formal transgression (experimental modernism) conceals (and reveals) content transgression (the 'taboos' of Faulkner's world) in a style that unites Faulkner's Southern Regionalism with...

This book on the 798 Art Space in Beijing focuses on the survival of the old factory spaces and how we are to understand (and classify) their manifest attraction. Categories and concepts employed include: Symbolic Function, the Sublime, the Aesthetics of Ruins, the Folly, Momento Mori. Space/Place. And Art without Artists.

Document from the year 2014 in the subject Philosophy - Philosophy of the Present, language: English, abstract: This study comprises tweleve meditations on the basics of human experience and a critique of Heidegger's use of the concept of 'boredom'.Just what does happen when we take the actual human experience of temporality as the basis for understanding ourselves?

This book investigates the paradoxes of logic from the point of view of layers, natural language and our everyday, basic experience of time. It suggests the limits of logic, including recursivity and meta-set contradictions together with the fundamental binary divisions of philosophical thought (even including, subject/predicate, mind/matter and subject/object) are a part of our temporal apparatus and offers suggestions to their creative use. The paradox of Epimenedes is also discussed.