Michael Benedikt

this "virtual reality" is clearly both the strangest and most radically innovative of today's computer developments

First Steps

Cyberspace

Reinhold Knoll

Wie sieht die Standortbestimmung des Philosophierens in der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts in Österreich aus? In welcher Form erscheint die Philosophie in den einzelnen Wissenschaften, in Politik und Gesellschaft, Kunst und Wirtschaft? Besitzen diese Bestimmungen noch Stringenz, gar Verbindlichkeit? Beginnend mit Feyerabends früher Studie über die Geisteswissenschaften in Österreich widmen sich siebzig AutorInnen in sechs Kapiteln der Darstellung von Personen und Problemkreisen: von Gesellschafts-, Natur- und Geisteswissenschaften über philosophische Auseinandersetzungen in Kunst und Politik bis zum Einfluss der Philosophie auf die Bildungspolitik und zu den institutionellen Ausrichtungen in Wien, Graz, Salzburg, Innsbruck, Klagenfurt und Linz. Hinter dem breiten Bedarf an Philosophie wird die Fortführung und Transformation von drei Schulen des Empirismus in Österreich aufgezeigt, des naturwissenschaftlich-logischen Empirismus in Anknüpfung an den Wiener Kreis und die analytische Tradition, eines geistes- und gesellschaftswissenschaftlichen Empirismus als sogenannte Erste Wiener Schule sowie des Philosophischen Empirismus als umfassender Konzeption. Mit dem vorliegenden Band gelangt die Darstellung der österreichischen Philosophiegeschichte in der Reihe "Verdrängter Humanismus - verzögerte Aufklärung" zum Abschluss.

Philosophie in Österreich von 1400 bis heute. Auf der Suche nach authentischem Philosophieren : Philosophie in Österreich 1951 - 2000. 6

Verdrängter Humanismus - verzögerte Aufklärung

Aaron Betsky

Magali Sarfatti Larson

Rob Wellington Quigley

Ann Jarmusch

28 projects by the award-winning San Diego-based architect.

Buildings + Projects

Julien Leblay

Balder ten Cate

Efthymia Tsamoura

Query reformulation refers to a process of translating a source query—a request for information in some high-level logic-based language—into a target plan that abides by certain interface restrictions. Many practical problems in data management can be seen as instances of the reformulation problem. For example, the problem of translating an SQL query written over a set of base tables into another query written over a set of views; the problem of implementing a query via translating to a program calling a set of database APIs; the problem of implementing a query using a collection of web services. In this book we approach query reformulation in a very general setting that encompasses all the problems above, by relating it to a line of research within mathematical logic. For many decades logicians have looked at the problem of converting "implicit definitions" into "explicit definitions," using an approach known as interpolation. We will review the theory of interpolation, and explain its close connection with query reformulation. We will give a detailed look at how the interpolation-based approach is used to generate translations between logic-based queries over different vocabularies, and also how it can be used to go from logic-based queries to programs.

Generating Plans from Proofs

An International Anthology

The Prose Poem

Architecture Beyond Experience is an interdisciplinary work in the service of one goal: the bringing about of a more relational, "posthuman" and yet humanist strain in architecture. It argues against the values that currently guide much architectural production (and the larger economy's too), which is the making, marketing, and staging of ever more arresting experiences. The result, in architecture, is experientialism: the belief that what gives a building value, aside from fulfilling its shelter functions, is how its views and spaces make us personally feel as we move around it. I argue that it's time to find a deeper basis for making and judging architecture, a basis which is not personal-experience-multiplied, but which is dialogical and relational from the start. I use the word relational to describe an architecture that guides people in search of encounter with (or avoidance of) each other and that manifests and demonstrates those same desires in its own forms, components, and materials. Buildings are beings. When architecture, they teach as well as protect; they tell us who we were and who we want to be; they exemplify, they deserve respect, invite investment, and reward affection. These are social-relational values, values that both underlie and go beyond experiential ones (sometimes called "phenomenological"). Such relational values have been suppressed, in part because architects have joined the Experience Economy, hardly noticing they have done so. Architecture Beyond Experience provides the argument and the concepts to ultimately re-center a profession.

Architecture Beyond Experience

John Gallaher

Michael Benedikt (1935–2007), who has been occasionally grouped with the New York School poets, published five books of poetry in his lifetime, and edited several anthologies, including the influential The Prose Poem (1976) and The Poetry of Surrealism (1974). This collection brings together for the first time work from all five of those long out-of-print volumes, along with work from his five unpublished manuscripts, which were nearly destroyed after his death. Finally, this once widely published and influential voice is back in print, and a fuller understanding of the development of American surrealism and the prose poem in the 1960s and 1970s is possible. A lifelong New Yorker, Benedikt was at various times an associate editor with Art News and Art International, managing editor of Locus Solus, and poetry editor of the Paris Review. Benedikt also taught at institutions such as Sarah Lawrence, Bennington, Vassar, and Boston University.

Michael Benedikt

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