C.A.R.A. asbl
Centre d'Assistance
à la Recherche et à la
Formation en Architecture

Informations pratiques :

• 13:00 – 14:0, 12 January 2015.
• Emplacement G02, 140 Hampstead Road, London NW1 2BX.
  
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Extrait :

Scale and Refuge: Twilight of the Anthropocene

The concept of twilight is already at work in the anthropocene, where a certain capacity for the species to view its own end is enabled by destroying the notion that humans are the transcendental condition for all thinking life: thinking the human species within time requires a turn away from the notion of humans as the sole condition of experience. But the concept of twilight has another sense, where a certain dimming of light – far from obscuring vision – enables the emergence of forms and figures. As the species begins to assimilate that it is in a stage of twilight, of thinking its own end within time, we might begin to ask what forms of viewing, visibility and illumination have enabled species-reflection…