In Das Passagen-Werk Benjamin cites a letter from Marx to Ruge, 'the reform of consciousness consists solely in [...] the awakening of the world from its dream about itself.' This idea of awakening recurs in Benjamin's methodological considerations and his many metaphors during the final thirteen years of his life. Benjamin set himself the pedagogical task of awakening 'the image-making medium within us, raising it to a stereoscopic and dimensional seeing into the depths of historical shadows...

Desperate times demand optimistic transdisciplinary measures. This volume unites a select group of thinkers who courageously traverse disciplinary boundaries. What brings them together iWs the least stratified ‘component’: a shared problem. It is a widely recognised that a problem gets the solution it merits. However, only a few acknowledge that a problem seldom neatly fits within a single discipline, nor does it conform to the principle of general equivalence. Handling its irreducibility...

Hoe verhoudt het menselijk lichaam als levend organisme zich tot toegepaste technologieën in de medische zorg? In Critical and Clinical Carthographies buigen Nederlandse en internationale experts op het gebied van robotica, mechatronica, medische technologie, design en architectuur zich over dit onderwerp.

Critical and Clinical Carthographies komt voort uit een transdisciplinaire conferentie georganiseerd door de Theorie afdeling en Hyperbody van de Faculteit Bouwunde aan de TU Delft,in ...