- Le Corbusier ’ s Five Points include, first, supports, a grid of reinforced concrete load-bearing columns. Next, roof gardens that can be occupied, then the free-designed ground plan, with an absence of supporting walls. Next is the free design of the facade, separating the exterior from its structural function. Finally is a long horizontal window cut along the entire length of the facade, allowing all rooms to be lit equally. The building is reduced to five essential layers, each of which can be modified on its own, but all of which integrate into a preferred whole. Thanks to Josh Taron for making the initial link with stack models.
- See also Rem Koolhaas, “ Bigness or the Problem of the Large, ” in S, M, L, XL (New York: Monacelli Press, 1995).
- In terms of Benjaminian forms of violence, its force is simultaneously “ constituent ” and “ constituted. ”
- See Galloway, “ The Poverty of Philosophy: Realism and Post-Fordism, ” Critical Inquiry 39 (2013): 347 – 366. Here we are amused to learn that “ capitalism ” uses computation to treat all things as interchangeable data, that certain kinds of “ realism ” define things according to a flat ontology, and so by analogical transfinite induction, mathematics is thought captured by capital. In some ways, we can mark flame wars between philosophical “ Marxists ” and “ realists ” in relation to past conflicts between historicists and structuralists, humanist Marxists and structuralfunctionalists, New Left and cybernetics, and so on. For one alliance, the agonistic telos of human history is more self-evident, and for another, history doesn ’ t even contain itself, let alone the world.
- On “ basing and superstructuring, ” see Fredric Jameson, Valences of the Dialectic (London: Verso Press, 2010).
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