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Blue Monday : stories of absurd realities and natural philosophies / Robert Sumrell & Kazys Varnelis.

By:

Sumrell, Robert [author.]

Contributor(s):

Varnelis, Kazys [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Barcelona : Actar Editorial, 2007Description: 175 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 20 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

8496540537
9788496540538

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

720.103 22

Contents:

Peripheral Vision / Reinhold Martin -- Reality -- Lemmings -- Abstraction -- My dear Berlin Wall -- Ether : One Wilshire -- Ethics -- Voluntary slavery -- The stimulus progression : Muzak -- Love -- Mike -- Swarm intelligence : Quartzsite, Arizona.

Review: "AUDC's first book captures three moments in modern culture that offer glimpses into our increasingly perverse relationship to architecture, cities, and objects. The first, Ether, explores Los Angeles telecom hotel "One Wilshire," a 39 story building of utter banality and complete mystery. The second, the Stimulus Progression, looks at the strange story of the Muzak Corporation and the invention of a culture of horizontality. The third, Swarm Intelligence, visits Quartzsite, Arizona, a desert town of some 3,000 people that annually swells to over a million residents as a horde of modern nomads descends upon it in their Recreational Vehicles. AUDC [Robert Sumrell and Kazys Varnelis] explores the strange reality around us in a lively mix of philosophy, photography, architectural drawings and models, and new media."--BOOK JACKET.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	City Campus City Campus Main Collection	720.103 SUM (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		A374396B

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"AUDC" on title page.

Includes bibliographical references.

"AUDC's first book captures three moments in modern culture that offer glimpses into our increasingly perverse relationship to architecture, cities, and objects. The first, Ether, explores Los Angeles telecom hotel "One Wilshire," a 39 story building of utter banality and complete mystery. The second, the Stimulus Progression, looks at the strange story of the Muzak Corporation and the invention of a culture of horizontality. The third, Swarm Intelligence, visits Quartzsite, Arizona, a desert town of some 3,000 people that annually swells to over a million residents as a horde of modern nomads descends upon it in their Recreational Vehicles. AUDC [Robert Sumrell and Kazys Varnelis] explores the strange reality around us in a lively mix of philosophy, photography, architectural drawings and models, and new media."--BOOK JACKET.

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