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A topology of everyday constellations

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Today, spaces no longer represent a bourgeois haven; nor are they the sites of a classical harmony between work and leisure, private and public, the local and the global. The house is not merely a home but a position for negotiations with multiple spheres -- the technological as well as the physical and the psychological. In A Topology of Everyday Constellations, Georges Teyssot considers the intrusion of the public sphere into private space, and the blurring of notions of interior, privacy, and intimacy in our societies. He proposes that we rethink design in terms of a new definition of the practices of everyday life. Teyssot considers the door, the window, the mirror, and the screen as thresholds or interstitial spaces that divide the world in two: the outside and the inside. Thresholds, he suggests, work both as markers of boundaries and as bridges to the exterior. The stark choice between boundary and bridge creates a middle space, an in-between that holds the possibility of exchanges and encounters. If the threshold no longer separates public from private, and if we can no longer think of the house as a bastion of privacy, Teyssot asks, does the body still inhabit the house -- or does the house, evolving into a series of microdevices, inhabit the body?

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The MIT Press
Language
English
Pages
350

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Table of Contents

A topology of everyday constellations
Figuring the invisible
Dream house
The wave
The story of an idea
Towards a cyborg architecture
Prosthetics and parasites
Windows and screens.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Series
Writing architecture

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
720.1
Library of Congress
NA2765 .T49 2013, NA2765.T49 2013

The Physical Object

Pagination
pages cm
Number of pages
350

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25385043M
Internet Archive
topologyofeveryd0000teys
ISBN 13
9780262518321
LCCN
2012028541
OCLC/WorldCat
801051671

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