Luciano Boi

Carlos Lobo

This interdisciplinary volume collects contributions from experts in their respective fields with as common theme diagrams. Diagrams play a fundamental role in the mathematical visualization and philosophical analysis of forms in space. Some of the most interesting and profound recent developments in contemporary sciences, whether in topology, geometry, dynamic systems theory, quantum field theory or string theory, have been made possible by the introduction of new types of diagrams, which, in addition to their essential role in the discovery of new classes of spaces and phenomena, have contributed to enriching and clarifying the meaning of the operations, structures and properties that are at the heart of these spaces and phenomena. The volume gives a closer look at the scope and the nature of diagrams as constituents of mathematical and physical thought, their function in contemporary artistic work, and appraise, in particular, the actual importance of the diagrams of knots, of braids, of fields, of interaction, of strings in topology and geometry, in quantum physics and in cosmology, but also in theory of perception, in plastic arts and in philosophy. The editors carefully curated this volume to be an inspiration to students and researchers in philosophy, phenomenology, mathematics and the sciences, as well as artists, musicians and the general interested audience.

Power of Gestures, Diagrammatical Intuition and Phenomenology of Space

When Form Becomes Substance

The Idea of Silence [L’idée du silence] est l’un des deux nouveaux livres du photographe portugais Carlos Lobo. Sans aucun texte, l’ouvrage fait jouer entre elles des images que le photographe a prises au Japon, en 2011, quelques mois après le drame de Fukushima. Loin de la forme du reportage, son approche photographique oscille entre document et poétique. Des impressions du Japon, où affleurent quelquefois dans les images les traces, ténues, d’une catastrophe. Un livre plein de pudeur et de silence. The Idea of Silence sort chez Loco en même temps que Through the Pale Dawn, livre de photographies prises en Corée du Nord.

Carlos Lobo

Books

Your next favorite book is out there