Print Email Facebook Twitter Pings and Hups Title Pings and Hups Author Kousoulas, Stavros (TU Delft Theory, Territories & Transitions) Radman, A. (TU Delft Theory, Territories & Transitions) Contributor Kousoulas, Stavros (editor) Radman, Andrej (editor) Date 2021 Abstract Etymologically unattested yet artistically long praised, there is a profound relation between life and light; next to both, the almost self-evident (and scientifically undisputed) relation between light and flow, lux and flux. Would it be correct then to understand life as an issue of perception and manipulation of flows? Surprisingly, this is a question that can only be answered by addressing death. As any lensmaker would claim (and philosophy has always had an affinity with this profession), perception is not a synthesis but an ascesis: it does not connect, it disconnects; or, better said, in order to connect, it needs to disconnect. However, following the radical empiricist dictum, one should never speak of perception alone; ever since William James, perception equals action. In other words, perception is not something that happens to us, it is something we do.5 Strange as it may seem therefore, to live one needs to practice death. This book will examine how styling life means styling death and how architecture (in the broadest possible sense) is involved in this continuous process of stylisation. To do so, architecture and perception, duration and individuation, will all converge in practising how one can die without dying in order to enunciate a life. To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:d95f134b-f592-446a-a8fa-42a9be7b45d3 Publisher Rowman & Littlefield, London Embargo date 2021-12-01 ISBN 978-1-5381-4752-8 Source Architectures of Life and Death: The Eco-Aesthetics of the Built Environment Bibliographical note Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public. Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type book chapter Rights © 2021 Stavros Kousoulas, A. Radman Files PDF Pings_and_Hups_Kousoulas_Radman.pdf 1.22 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:d95f134b-f592-446a-a8fa-42a9be7b45d3/datastream/OBJ/view