Prof. Sha Xin Wei ¥ http://hybrid.concordia.ca/~xinwei/
Readings will be selected from this list of references. You may suggest other relevant readings and present them after discussing them ahead of time with me.
Alexander, Christopher. The Phenomenon of Life : An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe. The Center for Environmental Structure Series ; V. 9. Berkeley, Calif.: Center for Environmental Structure, 2002.
———. The Process of Creating Life : An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe. The Center for Environmental Structure Series ; V. 10. Berkeley, Calif.: Center for Environmental Structure, 2002.
———. A Vision of a Living World : An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe. The Center for Environmental Structure Series ; V. 11. Berkeley, Calif.: Center for Environmental Structure, 2002.
———. The Luminous Ground : An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe. The Center for Environmental Structure Series ; V. 12. Berkeley, Calif.: Center for Environmental Structure, 2004.
Arnold, V. I. Ordinary Differential Equations, Springer, 2006
Arnold, V. I. Lectures on Partial Differential Equations. Springer, 2004.
Arnold, V. I. Geometrical Methods in the Theory of Ordinary Differential Equations. Springer, 2008.
Arnold, V. I. Mathematical Methods of Classical Mechanics, 2nd ed.. Springer 1989.
These are acknowledged as some of the most insightful lectures on these topics every given in last half century by a great mathematician and teacher, V I Arnold. The Russian mathematics community flourished because they cared for intuition and revelled in the creation, as solace and defiance. (Ironically, the "victory" of "Western capitalism" killed that ecology.)
Artaud, Antonin. The Theatre and Its Double: Essays. London: Calder & Boyars, 1970. Preface. Ch 7: Theater and Cruelty; Ch 9: The Theater of Cruelty, Second Manifesto.
Badiou, Alain. Infinite Thought: Truth and the Return to Philosophy. Trans. Oliver Felham and Justin Clement. New York: Continuum, 1998.---. Theoretical Writings. Continuum International Publishing Group, 2004. ISBN: 0826461468.
Bachelard, Gaston, and M. Jolas. The Poetics of Space. Boston: Beacon Press, 1994.
Baudrillard, Jean. Symbolic Exchange and Death. 1993 (Fr.1976).
Baudrillard, Jean. Simulacra and Simulation. The Body, in Theory. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1994.
Brook, Peter. The Empty Space. [1st American ed. New York,: Atheneum, 1968.
Certeau, Michel de. The Practice of Everyday Life. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984.
Cranz, Galen. The Chair : Rethinking Culture, Body, and Design. 1st ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 1998.
Debord, Guy. The Society of the Spectacle. New York: Zone Books, 1994.
Deleuze, Gilles, and Felix Guattari. A Thousand Plateaus : Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987 (1980).
Derrida, Jacques. Writing and Difference, Chicago: U. chicago Press, 1978. Ch. 6, La parole soufflŽe; Ch. 8, The Theater of Cruelty and the Closure of Representation.
Derrida, Jacques. "Signature, Event, Context, a Communication to the Congrès International Des Sociétés De Philosophie De Langue Francaise, Montreal." Translated by Alan Bass. In Margins of Philosophy. 307--30, 1971.
Dodds, George, Robert Tavernor, and Joseph Rykwert. Body and Building : Essays on the Changing Relation of Body and Architecture. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2002.
Foucault, Michel. The Archaeology of Knowledge. [1st American ed. New York,: Pantheon Books, 1972.
———. Madness and Civilization; a History of Insanity in the Age of Reason. New York,: Vintage Books, 1973.
———. The Birth of the Clinic : An Archaeology of Medical Perception. New York: Vintage Books, 1994.
———. "Governmentality." In Power, Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984: Volume 3, edited by P. Rabinow (Series Ed.) and J. D. Faubion (Vol Ed.). 201-22. New York: New York Press., 1994.
———. Discipline and Punish : The Birth of the Prison. 2nd Vintage Books ed. New York: Vintage Books, 1995.
Gallagher, Shaun, and Dan Zahavi. The Phenomenological Mind. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge, 2012.
Gendlin, Eugene. Experiencing and the Creation of Meaning : A Philosophical and Psychological Approach to the Subjective (Studies in Phenomenology & Existential Philosophy), Northwestern University Press, 1997. ISBN: 0810114275 .
Gins, Madeline, and Shåusaku Arakawa. Architectural Body. Modern and Contemporary Poetics. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2002.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. The Metamorphosis of Plants. Translated by Gordon L. Miller. MIT Press, 2009 (1790).
PŽrez-G—mez, Alberto. Architecture and the Crisis of Modern Science. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1983.
Grotowski, Jerzy. Towards a Poor Theater , Routledge, 2002 (1968). ISBN: 0878301550.
Guattari, Felix. Chaosmosis : An Ethico-Aesthetic Paradigm. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995. Chapters 1-2, chapters 6-7
______, Pragmatic/Machinic: A discussion with Charles J. Stivale, Wayne State University (19 March 1985).
Hall, Edward T. The Hidden Dimension. New York: Anchor Books, 1990.
Harries, Karsten. The Ethical Function of Architecture. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1997.
Hauptmann, Deborah, and Bart Akkerhuis. The Body in Architecture. Delft School of Design Series on Architecture and Urbanism. Rotterdam: 010 Publishers, 2006.
Heidegger, Martin. Poetry, Language, Thought. HarperCollins Canada / Harper Trade, 2001.
Heidegger, Martin, and Eugen Fink. Heraclitus Seminar. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1993.
Heraclitus, and T. M. Robinson. Fragments. Toronto ; Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1987.
Husserl, Edmund. Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and to a Phenomenological Philosophy: First Book, General Introduction to a Pure Phenomenology. Trans. F. Kersten. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1982 (1913).
---. The Phenomenology of Internal Time-Consciousness. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1964 (1928).
James,William. Essays in Radical Empiricism.
Jänich, Klaus. Linear Algebra, Springer-Verlag, 1994.
Jänich, Klaus. Topology. 1980, 1984. (Chapters 1-2. )
Lao-Tzu. Tao Te Ching. Translated with an Introd. By D.C. Lau. The Penguin Classics. Vol. L131. Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1963. (selections, archive)
Latour, Bruno. "Why Has Critique Run out of Steam ? From Matters of Fact to Matters of Concern." Critical Inquiry 30.2 (2004): 25-24.
Lefebvre, Henri. Rhythmanalysis : Space, Time, and Everyday Life. London ; New York: Continuum, 2004.
———. Critique of Everyday Life. Special ed. London ; New York: Verso, 2008.
———. The Production of Space. Oxford: Blackwell, (1974) 1991.
Lynch, Kevin. The Image of the City. Publications of the Joint Center for Urban Studies. Cambridge Mass.: Technology Press, 1960.
Marder, Michael. "Vegetal Anti-Metaphysics: Learning from Plants." Continental Philosophy Review 44 (2011): 469-89.
———. "Plant-Soul: The Elusive Meanings of Vegetative Life." Environmental Philosophy 8, no. 1 (2011): 83-99.
———. "Resist Like a Plant! On the Vegetal Life of Political Movements." Peace Studies Journal 5, no. 1 (2012): 24-32.
Massumi, Brian. Parables for the Virtual : Movement, Affect, Sensation (Post-Contemporary Interventions). Duke University Press, 2002. (Chapter 5, Superiority of the Analog)
Maturana, Humberto R., and Francisco J. Varela. The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding. 1st ed. Boston: New Science Library : Distributed in the United State by Random House, 1987.
Maturana, Humberto R., and Francisco J. Varela. Autopoiesis and Cognition : The Realization of the Living. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science ; V. 42. Dordrecht, Holland ; Boston: D. Reidel Pub. Co., 1980. ( autopo_n_cog.pdf, pp. 73-123)
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice. Phenomenology of Perception. Tr. Donald A. Landes. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York: Routledge, 2011.
______. The Visible and the Invisible, Followed by Working Notes. Tr. Claude Lefort. Northwestern University Studies in Phenomenology & Existential Philosophy. Evanston Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1968.
Milnor, John Willard. Topology from the Differentiable Viewpoint. Rev. ed. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1997.
Norberg-Schulz, Christian. Genius Loci : Towards a Phenomenology of Architecture. New York: Rizzoli, 1980.
Pallasmaa, Juhani. The Eyes of the Skin : Architecture and the Senses. ChichesterHoboken, NJ: Wiley-Academy ; John Wiley & Sons, 2005.
Petitot, Jean. "Morphological Eidetics for Phenomenology of Perception," Naturalizing Phenomenology: Issues in Contemporary Phenomenology and Cognitive Science, Ed. F. J. Varela J. Petitot, J.-M. Roy, B. Pachoud. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. 330-71.
Petitot, Jean. Morphogenesis of Meaning. European Semiotics, V. 3. Bern ; New York: P. Lang, 2004. (Chapter 1.)
Pignarre, Philippe, and Isabelle Stengers. Capitalist Sorcery : Breaking the Spell. Translated by Andrew Goffey. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Prigogine, I., and Isabelle Stengers. Order out of Chaos : Man's New Dialogue with Nature. Toronto ; New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, 1984.
Rasmussen, Steen Eiler. Experiencing Architecture. 2d United States ed. Cambridge Mass.: M.I.T. Press, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1962.
Seamon, David. "Body-Subject, Time-Space Routines, and Place-Ballets." In The Human Experience of Space and Place. New York: St. Martins Press, 1980.
Seamon, David, and Robert Mugerauer. Dwelling, Place, and Environment : Towards a Phenomenology of Person and World. Malabar, Fla.: Krieger Pub. Co., 2000.
Sha Xin Wei. Poiesis, Enchantment, and Topological Matter. MIT Press, forthcoming (2013).
Simondon, Gilbert. On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects. Translated by Ninian Mellamphy (University of Western Ontario). 1980 (1958). Paris: AubieR Editions Montaign, 1958e.
Stengers, Isabelle. Cosmopolitics. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
———. "Beyond Conversation: The Risks of Peace." In Process and Difference: Between Cosmological and Poststructuralist Postmodernisms, edited by Catherine Keller and Anne Daniell. 235-55. New York: SUNY, 2002.
———. Cosmopolitics I. Translated by Robert Bononno. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010.
———. Cosmopolitics II. Translated by Robert Bononno. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011.
———. Thinking with Whitehead: A Free and Wild Creation of Concepts. Harvard University Press, 2011 ( Penser Avec Whitehead : Une Libre Et Sauvage Crâeation De Concepts. L'ordre Philosophique. Paris: Seuil, 2002. )
Morris Tenenbaum and Harry Pollard, Ordinary Differential Equations, Dover Papaerbook, 1985.
Thom, RenŽ. Structural Stability and Morphogenesis. Addison Wesley Publishing Company, 1989. (Originally published as StabilitŽ structerelle et morphogŽnse, Essai d'une thŽorie gŽnŽrale des modles, 1972.)
Special Issue on René Thom : Atiyah, Bourguignon, Mazur, Ruelle, Smale, Sullivan. Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society (2004) 41.3.
Thrift, N. J. Non-Representational Theory : Space, Politics, Affect. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY: Routledge, 2008.
Varela, Francisco,"Autopoiesis and a Biology of Intentionality," CREA, CNRSÑEcole Polytechnique,
Paris, 1991.
Venturi, Robert, and Denise Scott Brown. Architecture as Signs and Systems : For a Mannerist Time. The William E Massey, Sr Lectures in the History of American Civilization. Cambridge, Mass. ; London, Eng.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004.
Venturi, Robert. Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture. The Museum of Modern Art Papers on Architecture. 2d ed. New York, Boston: Museum of Modern Art ; distributed by New York Graphic Society, 1977.
Vesely, Dalibor. Architecture in the Age of Divided Representation : The Question of Creativity in the Shadow of Production. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2004.
Weil, Simone. Oppression and Liberty. 1958, 1973.
---. Oppression and Liberty. New York: Routledge, 2001.
Whitehead, Alfred North. The Concept of Nature : The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919. Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, 2004.
---, Process and Reality.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Philosophical Investigations, Third Edition. New York: MacMillan, 1958. Aphorisms 1-100.
Zhuangzi. Zhuangzi : Basic Writings, tr. Burton Watson. Translations from the Asian Classics. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003.