Place and Spacing

Andrew Benjamin

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Andrew Benjamin weaves the ideas of place and space to disclose a multifarious interaction. Through a process of de-stabilising and reconstructing the concept of the place, he sets the stage for an interpretation of ‘space’. This interplay makes up a complex structure of relative positions, moments and speeds. His exploration reveals sites which defy simplicity, move away from innocence and present a multiplicity of meaning.

Deepti Zachariah

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Andrew Benjamin is Professor of Critical Theory at the University of Technology, Sydney. He was previously Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Research in Philosophy and Literature at Warwick University. An internationally recognised authority on contemporary French and German critical theory, he has been Visiting Professor at Columbia University in New York and Visiting Critic at the Architectural Association in London. His many books include: What is Deconstruction? (1988), Art, Mimesis and the Avant-Garde (1991), Present Hope: Philosophy, Architecture, Judaism (1997), Philosophy's Literature (2001) and Disclosing Spaces: On Painting (2004). He also edited The Lyotard Reader (1989), Abjection, Melancholia and Love: the Work of Julia Kristeva (1990) and Walter Benjamin's Philosophy: Destruction and Experience (1993) and Walter Benjamin and Romanticism (2002).

Deepti Zachariah currently works at Zaha Hadid Architects. She recently finished her Masters in Architecture at the Hoschule Anhalt, Dessau. Her MA thesis, 'The Fantasy of Indian Cities' was an investigation into the site of the city through indigenous mythology, cinema and literature. She is interested in exploring design as a product of both the built and un-built culture. She would like to be a storyteller.

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