Christopher Long

Reiner Schurmann's thinking is, as he himself would say, "riveted to a monstrous site." It remains focused on and situated between natality and mortality, the ultimate traits that condition human life. This book traces the contours of Schurmann's thinking in his magnum opus BROKEN HEGEMONIES in order to uncover the possibility of a politics that resists the hegemonic tendency to posit principles that set the world and our relationships with one another into violent order. Long's book follows in the footsteps of Oedipus who, in abject recognition of his finitude, stumbles upon the possibility of another politics with the help of his daughters at Colonus. The path toward this other, collaboratively created and thus poetic politics begins with an encounter with Aristotle, a thinker whom Schurmann most frequently read as the founder of hegemonic metaphysics, but whose thinking reveals itself as alive to beginnings in ways that open new possibility for human community. This return to beginnings leads, in turn, to Plotinus, who Schurmann reads as marking the destitution of the ancient hegemony of the Parmenidean principle of the One. By bringing Schurmann's innovative and compelling reading of Rene Char's poem, "The Shark and the Gull," into dialogue with Plotinus we come to encounter the power of symbols to transform reality and open us to new constellations of possible community. In Plotinus, where we expected to encounter an end, we experience a new way of thinking natality in terms of what comes to language in Char as the nuptial. Having thus been awakened to the power of symbols, we are prepared to experience how in Kant being itself comes to expression as plurivocal in a way that reveals just how pathologically delusional it is to attempt to deploy univocal principles in a plurivocal world. This opens us to what Schurmann calls the "singularization to come," a formulation that gestures to a mode of comportment at home in the ravaged site between natality and mortality. This then returns us to Oedipus at Colonus; but not to him alone. Rather, it points to the relationship that emerges for a time between Antigone, Ismene, and Oedipus, as they navigate a way between their exile from Thebes and Oedipus's final resting place near Athens. Here, having been awakened to the power of a poetic politics, we attend to three symbolic moments of touching between Oedipus and his daughters through which we might discern something of the new possibilities a poetic politics opens for us if we settle into the ravaged site that conditions our existence, together.

Reiner Schürmann and the Poetics of Politics

Buildings and pavilions between architecture and art, by a leading Czech sculptor While living in Austin, Texas, the Czech sculptor/designer/architect Jirí Príhoda (born 1966) produced a series of large architectonic structures in wood and metal, designed for various kinds of habitation. Documenting these pieces, the book includes an essay by Christopher Long.

Jirí Príhoda: 2021, 2011 Austin, Texas

Imagine... Every morning, when you wake up, it's there. Maybe it's right by your face. Or maybe it's down by your bare feet, at the bottom of the bed. It looks like a soft toy, a little pink bunny rabbit. But you didn't put it there last night. Just like it's been there every single morning. It appears out of thin air. And it disappears when you turn your back. But you can STILL feel it... Looking at you, smiling at you. What if this isn't a prank? What if this is really happening? What if this never stops? Never... Ever... STOPS! There Is a new horror in the world and it has two pink ears and a fluffy little tail. This is where the madness begins. This is Fluff. Fluff is the second horror novel by Christopher Long.

Fluff

Josef Frank

Architect, designer, and theorist Josef Frank (1885-1967) was known throughout Europe in the 1920s as one of the continent's leading modernists. Yet despite his important contributions to the development of modernism, Frank has been largely excluded from histories of the movement. Josef Frank: Life and Work is the first study that comprehensively explores the life, ideas, and designs of this complex and controversial figure. Educated in Vienna just after the turn of the century, Frank became the leader of the younger generation of architects in Austria after the First World War. But Frank fell from grace when he emerged as a forceful critic of the extremes of modern architecture and design during the early 1930s. Dismissing the demands for a unified modern style, Frank insisted that it was pluralism, not uniformity, that most characterized life in the new machine age. He called instead for a more humane modernism, one that responded to people's everyday needs and left room for sentimentality and historical influences. He was able to put these ideas into practice when, in 1933, he was forced to leave Vienna for Sweden. There his work came to define Swedish (or Scandinavian) modern design. For more than thirty years he was the chief designer for the Stockholm furnishings firm Svenskt Tenn, producing colorful, cozy, and eclectic designs that provided a refreshing alternative to the architectural mainstream of the day and presaged the coming revolt against modernism in the 1960s. In this sensitive study of one of the twentieth century's seminal architects and thinkers, Christopher Long offers new insight into Josef Frank's work and ideas and provides an important contribution to the understanding of modernist culture and its history.

Life and Work

Adolf Loos

This insightful book, by one of the leading scholars on Adolf Loos, explores Loos?s last houses, those he designed in the final three years of his life. Presenting numerous plans and photographs of Loos?s late works for the first time, it suggests new ways of understanding his Raumplan concept and how the architect rethought his ideas of space and spatial planning.

Adolf Loos: the Last Houses

Describes in simple language how children with ADHD live in and interact with the world. The writer is an executive at an agency for the differently abled who has four adopted sons with ADHD.

A Book from the Perspective of Children with ADHD

Swimming in a Pool of Peanut Butter

David Lapham

Rob Williams

Frank Tieri

Stuart Moore

Fred Van Lente

Adam Glass

Mike Benson

Ivan Brandon

Una serie di ridicoli, riottosi, riprovevoli team-up, storie che affiancano all’irrefrenabile Wade Wilson alcuni tra i migliori personaggi e autori Marvel! Ma Deadpool non è un tipo egoista, dividerà volentieri la scena con i suoi nuovi amichetti in queste avventure in coppia. Con una selezione delle migliori stelle della Casa delle Idee, tra le quali l’Incredibile Ercole (!), non uno ma ben due Ghost Rider (!), il Punitore (!), U.S. Ace (Chiiii?), il Colosso Vivente (ok, questo è uno scherzo, vero?), Capitan Bretagna (!), Satana (!) e Mr. X (!). Il Mercenario Chiacchierone è un solitario, ma se deve unirsi alla crème de la crème del supereroismo (causando ricadute psicologiche considerevoli sui suoi sventurati compagni) per aumentare la sua popolarità non rifiuterà di certo di imbarcarsi in un folle viaggio attraverso l’Universo Marvel! [Contiene: Deadpool Team-Up #899-891]

Deadpool insieme all'Universo Marvel! (Deadpool Collection)

This is a fascinating and unique unauthorised behind-the-scenes account of life at home, on the road, backstage and in the studio over the last twenty years with the outrageous, multi-platinum-selling rock band Poison, based on the amazing personal experiences and encounters of author, rock journalist and music industry insider Christopher Long. From Los Angeles, New York and Nashville to Chicago, Las Vegas, Dallas and beyond A Shot of Poison chronicles Long's exploits with the members of this chart-topping group and is full of personal anecdotes, insider stories and behind-the-scenes accounts. From Long's early recollections of first being introduced to the band in the 1980s to more recent experiences touring as bassist Bobby Dall's personal assistant, A Shot of Poison offers incredible, never-before published stories, interviews and photos of one of rocks most outrageous groups. Through his personal experiences as an assistant to Poison, Long will allow the reader to become a "fly on the wall", gaining new insight into the behind-the-scenes highs and lows of the multi-platinum-selling band.

An Insider's Tales of One of Rock's Most Outrageous Bands

A Shot of Poison

When it was completed in 1911, the Goldman & Salatsch Building in Vienna, commonly known as the Looshaus, incited controversy for its austerity and plainness. It represented a stark rejection of the contemporary preference for ornamentation, though its architect, Adolf Loos (1870–1933), had intended it to preserve Viennese tradition within a new modernist language. The heated debate that ensued among critics and the public set the project apart, distinguishing it as one of the most important and contentious buildings of the early 20th century. In celebration of the Looshaus's centennial year, Christopher Long, a leading authority on Viennese architectural history, brings to light extensive new research and careful analysis that dispel long-held myths about Loos, his building, and its critical reception. The book, which features new color photography and a vast array of archival materials in print for the first time, tells the remarkable story of the Looshaus's design and construction, the political and social restlessness it reflected, and the building's fundamental role in defining the look of modernism.

The Looshaus

Der Skandal um den Sittlichkeitsprozess gegen Adolf Loos Anfang September 1928 wurde der Architekt Adolf Loos von der Wiener Polizei unter dem Verdacht des Kindesmissbrauchs verhaftet. Zwei Mädchen (und später ein drittes) im Alter von acht und zehn Jahren beschuldigten Loos, sie im Zuge von Aktsitzungen unsittlich berührt zu haben. Fast gleichzeitig bekam die Presse Wind davon und inszenierte einen öffentlichen Skandal, der in einen spektakulären Prozess mündete. In der begleitenden Kontroverse ging es jedoch um mehr als die Frage, ob Loos schuldig oder nicht schuldig war. Vielmehr standen sich in dieser Affäre Linke und Rechte ebenso wie Vertreter der Moderne und ihre konservativen Kritiker gegenüber. Die Causa wurde zu einem berühmten Gerichtsfall. Christopher Long unternimmt eine detailgenaue und spannend erzählte Rekonstruktion der Ereignisse und verknüpft sie mit den ähnlich gelagerten Affären um Theodor Beer, Peter Altenberg und Egon Schiele.

Aus dem amerikanischen Englisch von Eva Martina Strobl

Der Fall Loos

The Origins and Context of Adolf Loos's 'Ornament and Crime'"

In early September 1928, Viennese police arrested the famed architect Adolf Loos. The charge was child molestation. Two young girls (and eventually a third), ages eight to ten, alleged that Loos had touched them inappropriately and compelled them to commit indecent acts while he was drawing nudes of them. What followed was a very public affair that culminated in a sensational trial, pitting Loos and his supporters against his many detractors. But the controversy was about more than Loos' guilt: like almost everything in Austria in the late 1920s, those involved saw the events through powerful political and cultural lenses. The arrest and subsequent trial not only set the forces of the right against those of the left, but also the city's avant-gardists against their conservative critics. This volume documents the controversy. Christopher Long is Distinguished Professor at University of Texas, Austin School of Architecture, and the author of The Looshaus (Yale, 2012) and The New Space (Yale, 2016).

Adolf Loos on Trial

Harry Ransom Center

Monica Penick

This fresh look at the Arts and Crafts Movement charts its origins in reformist ideals, its engagement with commercial culture, and its ultimate place in everyday households.

The Arts and Crafts Movement in Britain and America

The Rise of Everyday Design

Long

A comprehensive view of the life, work, and ideas of one of the creative giants of modern American design Arriving in the United States in 1914, Viennese-born Paul T. Frankl (1886-1958) brought with him an outsider's fresh perspective and an enthusiasm for forging a uniquely American design aesthetic. In the years between the two world wars he, more than any other designer, helped shape the distinctive look of American modernism. This authoritative book draws on an extensive collection of unpublished documents and family papers and photographs to provide the first full account of Frankl's life and ideas. The book also explores the history of modern American design and the extent of Frankl's influence on its trajectory. In the early 1920s, Frankl opened a New York City shop that became an epicenter of American modernism. Over the next decades, his work encompassed everything from individual pieces of furniture and decorative accessories to entire interiors, and his style continuously evolved, from early "Skyscraper" furniture to relaxed and casual designs favored by the Hollywood elite in the 1930s to manufactured pieces for the mass market in the 1950s. The book charts the impact of Frankl's ideas on merchants and consumers, on his fellow designers, and on the changing look of American homes and workplaces. With close to 170 illustrations, Paul T. Frankl and Modern American Design is an essential reference on 20th-century design.

Christopher Long

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