Architecturetalk

  “Isn’t this desire for objectivity a modernist sentiment?” - VP “Where does one enter, and where does one exit out of the modern?” - MJ   In today's episode, we engage in a far-ranging and open-ended discussion on the question of the global with my longtime collaborator Mark Jarzombek. Circulating around the question of the larger agenda of the global, discussion topics include the modernity and its critiques, the nation-state and its limits, autobiography and its pitfalls, and what are the ways in which global thinking (dis)connects with deconstruction.   2:31 Magdalenian culture and civilization: the caves. The Gravettians. 4:09 A Global History of Architecture textbook + GAHTC: what is this global project? 6:50 Modernism, Postmodernism, and the critical question of the “after the modern” 11:23 Modernism as dualism: the good and the bad in equal doses, continuously, vs a Hegelian dialectic (destruction at the end) 13:30 “How to develop a critique that doesn’t entrap you into being complicit in one side