Arakawa + Madeline Gins

<p>Volume 8 is dedicated to The Reversible Destiny Foundation created by Arakawa and Madeline Gins. The Foundation is much more than an architectural practice. It articulates art, philosophy, poetry, architecture and, to some extent, science in a dialogue that benefits each of these disciplines and ultimately serves one of the most radical ideas that apply to architecture: the action of non-dying. Guest authors include Shingo Tsuji, Stanley Shostak, Russell Hughes, and Jean-François Lyotard.</p> <p><em>Volume 08_Arakawa + Madeline Gins</em> includes: Introduction: Towards an Architecture of Joy — Architectures of Joy: A Spinozist Reading of Parent/Virilio and Arakawa/Gins’s Architecture — Applied Spinozism: Architectures of the Sky vs. Architectures of the Earth — Architecture of the Conatus: “Tentative Constructing Towards a Holding in Place” — Architectures of Joy: A Conversation Between Two Puzzle Creatures [Part A] — Architectures of Joy: A Conversation Between Two Puzzle Creatures [Part B] — Domesticity in the Reversible Destiny’s Architectural Terrains — Reversible Destiny Loft in Action: A Tentative Report from a Resident (by Shingo Tsuji) — A Subversive Approach to the Ideal Normalized Body — The Counter-Biopolitical Bioscleave Experiment Imagined (by Stanley Shostak) — Funambulist Paper #35 / DIY Biopolitics: The Deregulated Self (by Russell Hughes) — Letter from Jean-François Lyotard to Arakawa and Madeline Gins — Architectures for Non-Dying Creatures: The Artistic-Philosophical-Poetic-Architectural Work of Arakawa and Gins — “All Men Are Sisters”: A Joy Named Madeline Gins.</p>