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Architecture and deconstruction: translation as a matter of speculative theory
Bodart, Céline
2019In Bodart, Céline (Ed.) ROUTES OF KNOWLEDGE. Journeys and vehicles of architectural theory, 196X-199X
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Keywords :
theory of architecture; Derridean philosophy; translation
Abstract :
[en] If this conference proposes to explore the singular and minor expressions of architectural theory, it could at first seem strange to propose here a paper about the so-called derridean years of architecture. Rather, the vast body of literature produced on this specific episode argues that the encounter of architectural discourses with derridean deconstruction played a major role into the implementation of "the gilded age of theory" (Mallgrave, Goodman, 2011). But such an "age" needs now to be redefined in regard with its own cultural boundaries. What the decon has produced in the Anglo-American field of architectural theory is not what the deconstruction has produced on the French-speaking part of the debate (following the argument of Cusset, 2005). In France, the question of the effects of the Derrida's philosophy on the contemporary architectural discourses and practices still causes a kind of discomfort. "As if" no one could face with what this disciplinary cross-over of the mid-eighties both has produced and has not succeeded in producing; "as if", failure or not, this experimental encounter could had been no effects or consequences on the theories and practices which succeeded it. From one cultural context to another, we have two different versions of a same history. Different but not unrelated. The proposition is here to invest the productive gap between these overlapped versions, in order to question their respective modes of construction but also to re-open their ways of being transmitted. From an original translation of Derrida's Haunt (Wigley, 1993) in French, I would present a methodological approach (Despret, 2001) which attempts to create the conditions of a renewed relation between different versions of what the deconstruction could have produced in architecture. The exercise of the translation is seen as a way to question the co-existence of these different possible versions; a way to slow down the multiple gestures which hastily sweep the hesitations in the shared course of their history.
Disciplines :
Architecture
Author, co-author :
Bodart, Céline ;  Université de Liège > Département de la Faculté d'Architecture > Architecture Site Lambert Lombard
Language :
English
Title :
Architecture and deconstruction: translation as a matter of speculative theory
Publication date :
January 2019
Event name :
Theory's History, 196X-199X. Challenges in the historiography of architectural knowledge
Event organizer :
KU Leuven
Event place :
Bruxelles, Belgium
Event date :
du 8 février 2017 au 10 février 2017
Audience :
International
Main work title :
ROUTES OF KNOWLEDGE. Journeys and vehicles of architectural theory, 196X-199X
Author, co-author :
Bodart, Céline ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Unités de recherche interfacultaires > Art, Archéologie et Patrimoine (AAP)
Collection name :
Theory's history conference – book 1
Peer reviewed :
Peer reviewed
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