Extract from p135 of the 2013 Penguin translation by Lara Gochin Raffaelli of Gabriele D'annunzio's 'Il Piacere' The ...

^Still from Cadbury Flake Advert, 1992 Extract from p88 of the 2013 Penguin translation by Lara Gochin Raffaelli of Gabriele D'a...

^Massimo Scolari, Study Sketches for Invisible Cities, 1976-79 “In the design process, the imprecision of the sketch and digital pr...

god almighty god inconsolable bird-legged god long-eared god short-tailed god take me into the kennel askew into the freight tra...

^Il Bagno Blu in D'annunzio 's Vittoriale . An extreme illustration of the points below. Two extracts from the collection of ...

^Nazi Rally The text below is part of the incendiary introduction to Jonathan Littell's The Kindly Ones . It lays out a brilliant ...

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We don’t have a door, there’s just a gap, very narrow and quite deep. In fact it’s so tight that it presses against your chest as you ...

^Charles Moore Foundation interior (Living Room) "If (as the philosophers maintain) the city is like some large house, and the h...

Everything is filled with you, and everything is filled with me: the towns are full, just as the cemeteries are full of you, all t...

^V1 Rocket Damage in Antwerp 1944 “I live with my body in danger as regards menacing machines as well as manageable instruments. My b...

^The Great Lawn, Central Park, in Spring < source > In expectation of Spring, new things and old, here is an extract from Teju Col...

walk the spiral up out of the pavement Into your reflection, into transparency, into the space where flat planes are curves ...

We walked to the quay for the fishermen's party (red wine in plastic beakers, sandwiches of fresh caught sardines, their treasure...

^aftermath of a vehicular accident, University of Georgia ( source ) The opening paragraphs of Karl Ove Knausgaard's 'A Death...

^Titian's Bacchanal, 1523 ( source ) Another extract from Arendt's The Human Condition, this time on the foundational nature of...

^Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Phidias Showing the Frieze of the Parthenon to his Friends Two extracts relating to the City ( polis ) from Ha...

^ Richard Hamilton "Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing?" 1956 From Jonathan Franzen...