{"title":"Nadir Lahiji","description":"\u003cp\u003eExploring the intersections of \u003cstrong\u003earchitecture\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cem\u003ephilosophy\u003c\/em\u003e, and visual culture, Nadir Lahiji’s works offer a thoughtful examination of contemporary spatial and cultural theory. His writing challenges conventional perspectives, weaving critical insights into the fabric of modern architectural discourse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect a blend of rigorous philosophical inquiry and an experimental approach to the arts, especially as these fields relate to the representation and pedagogy of cinema. Lahiji’s books invite reflection on how architecture shapes and is shaped by broader cultural forces.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"architecture-in-the-age-of-pornography-by-nadir-lahiji-9781032049052","title":"Architecture in the Age of Pornography","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArchitecture, and its pedagogy in the academy, is dominated by the technology of image production that veils the ‘naked power’ behind its operation. It conforms to the principles of cultural logic of the society of the spectacle, consistent with neoliberal capitalism. The problem with this dominant pedagogy is that it violates the fundamental ethical imperative, putting architecture in direct contradiction with the ‘common good’. In addition, it has let architecture enter the brothel of pornographic capitalism which turns every object into an object of obscene gratification of the senses.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this book, Nadir Lahiji adopts Alain Badiou’s thesis from \u003cem\u003eThe Pornographic Age\u003c\/em\u003e to demonstrate that contemporary architecture is in absolute complicity with the pornographic present. The traits that Badiou identifies in this age are manifestly visible in architectural surfaces which are subordinated to the same ‘regime of images’. Similarly to Badiou’s political indictments of the society which has given rise to the pornographic present, the book condemns the architecture that has lent its service to the same society with a license to consummate its transgression to better cater to the imperative of the ‘regime of images’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTransposing the conceptual categories in Badiou’s analysis to the critique of architecture’s pornographic turn in contemporary society, the book constructs a conceptual framework by which to demonstrate the specific manifestations of pornography in building. 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In this work, author Nadir Lahiji proposes that the philosophical understanding of the collective human sensorium in the apparatus of perception must once again find its true training ground in architecture. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBuilding art puts the collective mass in the position of an ‘expert critic’ who identifies themselves with the technical apparatus of architecture. Only then can architecture regain its status as ‘mass art’ and, as the book contends, only then can it resume its function as the only ‘artform’ that is designed for the political pedagogy of masses, which originally belonged to it in the period of modernity before the invention of cinema.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47605033828588,"sku":"9780367762827","price":89.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780367762827-architecture-philosophy-and-the-pedagogy-of-cinema.jpg?v=1778121145"},{"product_id":"kojin-karatanis-philosophy-of-architecture-by-nadir-lahiji-9781032647593","title":"Kōjin Karatani’s Philosophy of Architecture","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this book, Nadir Lahiji introduces Kōjin Karatani’s theoretical-philosophical project and demonstrates its affinity with Kant’s critical philosophy founded on ‘architectonic reason’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the ancient Greeks, we have inherited a definition of the word ‘philosophy’ as Sophia—wisdom. 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