The Performative Structure

The Performative Structure
Author: Nils Billing
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 644
Release: 2018-07-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004372377

In The Performative Structure: Ritualizing the Pyramid of Pepy I, Nils Billing investigates the ancient Egyptian pyramid complex as a performative structure, ritualized through the operative faculty inherent in monumental architecture, text, and image. The main body of research is given over to an analysis of the Pyramid Texts found in the pyramid of king Pepy I of the Sixth Dynasty (ca 2300 BCE). It is demonstrated that the texts were distributed on distinct space-bound thematic and ritual levels in order to perpetuate a cultic activity from which the lord of the tomb could be transformed by moving through the different chambers and corridors towards the exit. Just as the decoration program of the mortuary temple once delineated the ritual and ideological structure of the royal mortuary cult, the corpus of texts distributed in the pyramid provided a monumentalized performative structure that effectuated the perennial rebirth for its owner.

The Performative Structure

The Performative Structure
Author: Nils Billing
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Funeral rites and ceremonies
ISBN: 9789004372368

In The Performative Structure, Nils Billing investigates the ancient Egyptian pyramid complex and tomb as a ritualized architecture, made operative through its architectural configuration and decoration patterns in terms of texts and images.

The Routledge Companion to Paradigms of Performativity in Design and Architecture

The Routledge Companion to Paradigms of Performativity in Design and Architecture
Author: Mitra Kanaani
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 702
Release: 2019-12-06
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0429664389

The Routledge Companion to Paradigms of Performativity in Design and Architecture focuses on a non-linear, multilateral, ethical way of design thinking, positioning the design process as a journey. It expands on the multiple facets and paradigms of performative design thinking as an emerging trend in design methodology. This edited collection explores the meaning of performativity by examining its relevance in conjunction with three fundamental principles: firmness, commodity and delight. The scope and broader meaning of performativity, performative architecture and performance-based building design are discussed in terms of how they influence today’s design thinking. With contributions from 44 expert practitioners, educators and researchers, this volume engages theory, history, technology and the human aspects of performative design thinking and its implications for the future of design.

Performatives After Deconstruction

Performatives After Deconstruction
Author: Mauro Senatore
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2013-07-04
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1441123466

What has happened since de Man and Derrida first read Austin? How has the encounter between deconstruction and the performative affected each of these terms? In addressing these questions, this book brings together scholars whose works have been provoked in different ways by the encounter of deconstruction and the performative. Following Derrida's appeal to any rigorous deconstruction to reckon with Austin's theorems and his ever growing commitment to rethink and rewrite the performative and its multiple articulations, it is now urgent that we reflect upon the effects of a theoretical event that has profoundly marked the contemporary scene. The contributors to this book suggest various ways of re-reading the heritage and future of both deconstruction and the performative after their encounter, bringing into focus both the constitutive aporia of the performative and the role it plays within the deconstruction of the metaphysical tradition.

Cultural Turns

Cultural Turns
Author: Doris Bachmann-Medick
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 465
Release: 2016-01-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3110403072

The contemporary fields of the study of culture, the humanities and the social sciences are unfolding in a dynamic constellation of cultural turns. This book provides a comprehensive overview of these theoretically and methodologically groundbreaking reorientations. It discusses the value of the new focuses and their analytical categories for the work of a wide range of disciplines. In addition to chapters on the interpretive, performative, reflexive, postcolonial, translational, spatial and iconic turns, it discusses emerging directions of research. Drawing on a wealth of international research, this book maps central topics and approaches in the study of culture and thus provides systematic impetus for changed disciplinary and transdisciplinary research in the humanities and beyond – e.g., in the fields of sociology, economics and the study of religion. This work is the English translation by Adam Blauhut of an influential German book that has now been completely revised. It is a stimulating example of a cross-cultural translation between different theoretical cultures and also the first critical synthesis of cultural turns in the English-speaking world.

Performative Materials in Architecture and Design

Performative Materials in Architecture and Design
Author: Rashida Ng
Publisher: Intellect Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781841506494

This volume illuminates both the interaction of these technologies and the role of materiality in research, design and practice, and provides an overview of representative design projects and relevant theories.

Performative Analysis

Performative Analysis
Author: Jeffrey Swinkin
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2016
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1580465269

This book proposes a new model for understanding the musical work, which includes interpretation -- both analysis- and performance-based -- as an integral component.

Literary Theory

Literary Theory
Author: Jonathan Culler
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 145
Release: 1997
Genre: Criticism
ISBN: 9780192853189

What is Literary Theory? Is there a relationship between literature and culture? In fact, what is Literature, and does it matter?These are the sorts of questions addressed by Jonathan Culler in a book which steers a clear path through a subject often perceived to be complex and impenetrable. It offers discerning insights into theories about the nature of language and meaning, whether literature is a form of self-expression ora method of appeal to an audience, and outlines the ideas behind a number of different schools: deconstruction, semiotics, postcolonial theory, and structuralism amongst them.

For Derrida

For Derrida
Author: J. Hillis Miller
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2009-08-25
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 082323035X

This book—the culmination of forty years of friendship between J. Hillis Miller and Jacques Derrida, during which Miller also closely followed all Derrida’s writings and seminars—is “for Derrida” in two senses. It is “for him,” dedicated to his memory. The chapters also speak, in acts of reading, as advocates for Derrida’s work. They focus especially on Derrida’s late work, including passages from the last, as yet unpublished, seminars. The chapters are “partial to Derrida,” on his side, taking his part, gratefully submitting themselves to the demand made by Derrida’s writings to be read—slowly, carefully, faithfully, with close attention to semantic detail. The chapters do not progress forward to tell a sequential story. They are, rather, a series of perspectives on the heterogeneity of Derrida’s work, or forays into that heterogeneity. The chief goal has been, to borrow a phrase from Wallace Stevens, “plainly to propound” what Derrida says. The book aims, above all, to render Derrida’s writings justice. It should be remembered, however, that, according to Derrida himself, every rendering of justice is also a transformative interpretation. A book like this one is not a substitute for reading Derrida for oneself. It is to be hoped that it will encourage readers to do just that.

Performative Urbanism

Performative Urbanism
Author: Sophie Wolfrum
Publisher: Jovis Verlag
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: City planning
ISBN: 9783868593044

The concept of relational space in urbanism'understanding the space of the city as produced by society'is connected with an understanding of architecture unfolding in situations. Urban space is induced by architecture, space is produced while experiencing architecture within a situation. There is a dialectical interplay between architectonic material (intra-architectonic reality) and usage and action (urban reality). Thus, an architectonic situation can be interpreted as performative in the sense of performativity as it has emerged in the discourse over the last decade. The everyday urban life of the city, with all its potential and conflicts, is taken into consideration. Analyzing the urban is not enough. This discourse is about Urban Design. Is architectural design one part, and the actualization of architecture in a performative incident another? Does Urban Design need different practices?