Entr'acte

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-5

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2. Entr’acte, Interim, Interstice: Performing Publics and Media across Scales of Time and Space

   1. Entr’acte, Interim, Interstice: Performing Publics and Media across Scales of Time and Space

      • Jordan Geiger

      Pages 7-31

3. Supranational

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 33-34

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   2. Cloud Megastructures and Platform Utopias

      • Benjamin H. Bratton

      Pages 35-51

   3. “Hello! My Name Is Sophia,” I Am Going to Tweet Democracy, Google My College Degree, and 3-D Print My House! A Speculative Piece on the Neo-Republic of Hyper-Individuals in the Near Future

      • Nashid Nabian

      Pages 53-71

   4. Entr’actions: From Radical Transparency to Radical Translucency

      • Ricardo Dominguez

      Pages 73-84

4. Interurban

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 85-85

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   2. The Hypercity That Occupy Built

      • Jonathan Massey, Brett Snyder

      Pages 87-103

   3. Image Cities Spectacles: Imagining a World Class African City

      • Mabel O. Wilson, Mario Gooden

      Pages 105-126

   4. Crowd Choreographies

      • Omar Khan

      Pages 127-136

   5. Growing the Seeds of Change

      • Elke Krasny

      Pages 137-154

5. Transindividual

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 155-155

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   2. Looking into Nature: Learning and Delight in a STE[A]M Park

      • Brenda Laurel

      Pages 157-171

   3. (Unofficially) Enacting the Commons

      • Malcolm McCullough

      Pages 173-183

   4. Between Plateau and Mirror: A Sound and Projection Field for Daniel Lanois’ “Later That Night at the Drive-In”

      • Adrian Blackwell, Eduardo Aquino

      Pages 185-211

6. Afterword

   1. Afterword

      • Keller Easterling

      Pages 213-215

7. Back Matter

   Pages 217-224

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Generally taking place in front of closed curtains during set changes between acts, the entr'acte delivers a fleeting new purpose and event to the otherwise sometimes inert space between stage and pit. This collection employs the entr'acte as a model for conceptualizing emerging formations of publics and of public space.

• architecture
• model
• public space
• stage

"Of course, all architecture is performative. Too often, though, this is squeezed into a constricting discourse of functionality. This exhilarating book shows that space - cyber-augmented and globally distributed - is a realm of complex enactment that founds a theatre of life embracing everything from revolution to joy." - Michael Sorkin

"Geiger has gathered an impressive array of contemporary thinkers to establish and tease out the reality of living in an age where sedentary structures are exceeded by the mediatized spectacle of our daily lives. These entr'acteurs (themselves operating between varying creative and theoretical practices) expose eddies at the dynamic nexus of geopolitical, financial, technological, and sociocultural forces in order to offer remarkable accounts, insights, and propositions that productively 'play' between the transitory and intransigent as performative spacing." - Dorita Hannah, ResearchProfessor, Interdisciplinary Architecture, Art and Design, University of Tasmania, Australia and Adjunct Professor, Stage and Space, Aalto University, Finland

"This is a book that gets under your skin with its kaleidoscopic and densely worded essays on phenomena wherein the urban, the political, media and images interact, or rather: are smashed together. We know that we are living out the last days of a former world order, in politics, in economies, in media, and in the role that architecture has to play in shaping the public sphere. Entr'acte does not reassure, or moralize about where we are going or should be going, but shakes us up with its visions of where we are already, and where we could be going." - Wouter Vanstiphout, Professor, Design and Politics, Technical University Delft, The Netherlands

Paul Virilio, The European Graduate School, Switzerland Benjamin H. Bratton, University of California, San Diego, USA Nashid Nabian, Harvard University, USA Ricardo Dominguez, University of California, San Diego, USA Jonathan Massey, Syracuse University, USA Brett Snyder, Cheng+Snyder, USA Mabel O. Wilson, Columbia University, USA Mario Gooden, Huff+Golden Architects, USA Omar Khan, University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA Elke Krasny, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria Brenda Laurel, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA Malcolm McCullough, University of Michigan, USA Adrian Blackwell, University of Waterloo, Canada Eduardo Aquino, University of Manitoba, Canada

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