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The bureaucracy of beauty : design in the age of its global reproducibility. / Arindam Dutta.

By: Arindam DuttaContributor(s): Arindam DuttaMaterial type: Text

TextPublisher number: International Book Distributors. | 17, Prakash Apartment, Ansari Road, Darya Ganj, New Delhi.Publication details: New York : Routledge , ©2007Description: (xii, 364 pages) : illustrations :24cmISBN: 9780415979207Genre/Form: ARCHITECTURE DDC classification: 720.103 DUT

Contents:

Cover -- Front cover -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION: The Department of Science and Art: The Aesthetic in the Age of Its Global Reproducibility -- CHAPTER 1. Empire " ... in a Fit of Absence of Mind": Toward a Vulgar Theory of Imperialism -- CHAPTER 2. Architecture Upside Down: The Morphotrophy of Value -- CHAPTER 3. "Tardy Imaginations, Torpid Capacities, Tottering Thought": Drawing at the Origin -- CHAPTER 4. Of AbOriginal and CopyRight -- CHAPTER 5. Cyborg/Artisan: On a Certain Asymmetry Deriving from the Binary System;or, Notes on a Moment in the Development of a Taylorist Feudalism -- CHAPTER 6. Congress: Gandhi at the World Exhibitions -- CHAPTER 7. Unmaking Beauty: Aesthetics in the Shadow of History -- POSTSCRIPT: Infinite Justice: An Architectural Coda -- Notes -- Bibliographic Note -- Index -- Back cover -- Last Page.

Summary: Offering a study in the history of ideas, of design and architecture, and of cultural politics, this book converges on the issues of globalisation. It explores the development of international laws of intellectual property, ideas of design pedagogy, and competing philosophies of aesthetics.

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Cover --
Front cover --
Contents --
List of Abbreviations --
Acknowledgments --
INTRODUCTION: The Department of Science and Art: The Aesthetic in the Age of Its Global Reproducibility --
CHAPTER 1. Empire " ... in a Fit of Absence of Mind": Toward a Vulgar Theory of Imperialism --
CHAPTER 2. Architecture Upside Down: The Morphotrophy of Value --
CHAPTER 3. "Tardy Imaginations, Torpid Capacities, Tottering Thought": Drawing at the Origin --
CHAPTER 4. Of AbOriginal and CopyRight --
CHAPTER 5. Cyborg/Artisan: On a Certain Asymmetry Deriving from the Binary System;or, Notes on a Moment in the Development of a Taylorist Feudalism --
CHAPTER 6. Congress: Gandhi at the World Exhibitions --
CHAPTER 7. Unmaking Beauty: Aesthetics in the Shadow of History --
POSTSCRIPT: Infinite Justice: An Architectural Coda --
Notes --
Bibliographic Note --
Index --
Back cover --
Last Page.

Offering a study in the history of ideas, of design and architecture, and of cultural politics, this book converges on the issues of globalisation. It explores the development of international laws of intellectual property, ideas of design pedagogy, and competing philosophies of aesthetics.

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