This volume contains a collection of essays which attempt to analyse the modern metropolis.
The metropolis is understood here as a ‘mater polis’, a ‘mother city’, a substantial …

… Is the body in pain the failure of the hieroglyphic body, as illness is the failure of health? … At
the same time we must note the hieroglyphic aspect of their costumes, whose horizontal lines …

… These are the hieroglyphic systems. Alongside the preserved pictoriality of hieroglyphic
signs – a … The hieroglyphic nature of a script is therefore entirely independent of its structural …

… becoming-Amerindian blind woman, Susan Forrestal, is an historical nexus in which
violator and violated become again intertwined within “the hieroglyphics of space” (27). The …

… the … The first to illustrate and describe Maya hieroglyphs was Bishop Diego de Landa, whose
long-lost manuscript, written in or about 1566, gives the hieroglyphs for the 20 days and the …

… Salon de 1767 suggests that here the text on art may also … the mind involved in the act of
esthetic judgment. I intend to demonstrate how the pictorial and poetic notion of the hieroglyph …

… we are saying; the space where they achieve their splendour is not that deployed by our
eyes but that defined by the sequential elements of syntax. (9) The emblem's juxtaposition of …

… the necessary intersection of architectural and social space … / social relationships, if read
against the grain). Sadly, Hopper's … remarks on the 'odd angle from which the space is painted …

… the ideographic and the hieroglyphic rebus both possess a long and varied history, the Lettrists
have shown surprisingly little interest in the … far more attention to the hieroglyphic rebus, …

… or to plot it out in architecture, the mathematical space then comes into service of the
human … the centralized space of the domain of dwelling is the space of the street . . . an ec-centric …