Urban Arabesques - Kochhar-Lindgren, Gray

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Résumé :
Introduction: Threshold: Arabesques, Hong Kong, and the Material Poetics of Philosophy 1. Cities Within the City: Traversing the Streets 2. The Arabesques of the Urban: Foliage, Frames, and Twists 3. Thinking Streets: Transversal Empiricism 4. The Lobster, Unleashed: The Peculiarity of Philosophy 5. Ghost Money: TransRational Cash and the Non-Modern 6. Kino-Surfaces: Cinematic Streets 7. Politics on the Streets: The Pink Panther, Yellow Umbrellas, and a Prolepsis 8. Street Walking: The Peripatetics of Thinking 9. Stepping Outside: Rhythms of the Streets 10. Everyday Life and the Urban Arabesque Conclusion: Immensity Notes References Index...

Biographie:
Gray Kochhar-Lindgren is the Director of Wild Studios Consulting and Creative Productions LLC. Recently retired as Professor and Director of the University of Hong Kong's Common Core, Gray continues to serve as an Honorary Professor of the Humanities, Affiliate Faculty in Comparative Literature, and as Senior Advisor for the Common Core. Prior to HKU, he was the inaugural Vice-Chancellor for Undergraduate Learning and Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences at the University of Washington-Bothell. A Fulbright Scholar and the recipient of four teaching awards, Gray is the author of Starting Time...

Sommaire:

Introduction: Threshold: Arabesques, Hong Kong, and the Material Poetics of Philosophy
1. Cities Within the City: Traversing the Streets
2. The Arabesques of the Urban: Foliage, Frames, and Twists
3. Thinking Streets: Transversal Empiricism
4. The Lobster, Unleashed: The Peculiarity of Philosophy
5. Ghost Money: TransRational Cash and the Non-Modern
6. Kino-Surfaces: Cinematic Streets
7. Politics on the Streets: The Pink Panther, Yellow Umbrellas, and a Prolepsis
8. Street Walking: The Peripatetics of Thinking
9. Stepping Outside: Rhythms of the Streets
10. Everyday Life and the Urban Arabesque
Conclusion: Immensity
Notes
References
Index