Architecture and psychoanalysis: Peter Eisenman and Jacques Lacan

Architecture and Psychoanalysis is an analysis of the relation between psychoanalytic theory and compositional strategies in architecture. In psychoanalysis it focuses on the writing of Jacques Lacan as well as theories of the structure of the psyche, linguistics, and perception. In architecture it focuses on the writings and projects of Peter Eisenman. There are extended discussions on the thought of figures such as Sigmund Freud, Ferdinand de Saussure, and Jacques Derrida, and of the architecture of figures such as Leon Battista Alberti, Francesco Borromini, Giuseppe Terragni, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Keywords: architecture, psychoanalysis, Peter Eisenman (Barenholtz Pavilion, Frank House, Falk House, Wexner Center, Columbus Convention Center, Aronoff Center), Jacques Lacan (Écrits, A Selection; The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psycho-Analysis), psyche, linguistics, perception, Plato (Timaeus, Republic, Parmenides, Phaedrus), Proclus (Commentary on the First Book of Euclid’s Elements), Plotinus (Enneads), Nicolas Cusanus (De circuli quadratura, De coniecturis), Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (Phenomenology of Spirit, Reason in History, Philosophy of Mind), Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling (The Philosophy of Art, System of Transcendental Idealism), Sigmund Freud (The Interpretation of Dreams, On Dreams, Civilization and Its Discontents, Beyond the Pleasure Principle, An Outline of Psycho-Analysis, Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis, The Ego and the Id), Ferdinand de Saussure (Course in General Linguistics), Structural Linguistics, Noam Chomsky (Language and Mind, Cartesian Linguistics), Jacques Derrida (Writing and Difference, Of Grammatology, Margins of Philosophy), Deconstruction, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Georges Bataille, Roger Caillois, William Empson (Seven Types of Ambiguity), Leon Battista Alberti (Sant’Andrea in Mantua, De pictura), Giulio Romano (Palazzo del Tè), Andrea Palladio, Francesco Borrmomini (San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane), Le Corbusier (Villa Shodhan), Giuseppe Terragni (Casa Giuliani Frigerio, Casa del Fascio), Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Philip Johnson (Glass House), Colin Rowe, Bernard Tschumi (Parc de la Villette), mirror stage, the Other, Imaginary Ego, Symbolic Ego, dreams, subconscious, manifest content, latent content, Vorstellun

Aesthetics and the philosophy of spirit: from Plotinus to Schelling and Hegel

'Aesthetics & the philosophy of spirit' examines the aesthetics of Plotinus, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling, and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. It discusses the Platonic bases of the aesthetics of Plotinus and the Plotinian bases of the aesthetics of Schelling and Hegel in the philosophy of spirit, identity philosophy, and transcendental idealism. Examining the notion of art as philosophy, as a product of mind, and as an instrument of intellect in the relation between reason and perception, the book involves concepts of the universal and particular, freedom and necessity, the beautiful and sublime, allegory and symbolism, consciousness and self-consciousness, subjective and objective spirit, and forms of artistic representation. Keywords: aesthetics, art, architecture, Philosophy of Spirit, Idealism, Transcendental Idealism, Identity Philosophy, Plato (Symposium, Republic, Phaedrus, Timaeus), Plotinus (Enneads), Intellectual Principle, Proclus (Commentary on the First Book of Euclid’s Elements), Neoplatonism, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (Monadology), Organic Rationalism, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling (The Philosophy of Art; System of Transcendental Idealism; Bruno, or On the Natural and the Divine Principle of Things), Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics; Phenomenology of Sprit; Philosophy of Mind, Reason in History), Caspar David Friedrich (Two Men Observing the Moon), Correggio (Adoration of the Shepherds), Titian (The Annunciation), Raphael (The Parnassus), Pablo Picasso (Guernica), Arshile Gorky (The Betrothal II), Subjective Spirit, Objective Spirit, Absolute Spirit, Geist, Johann Gottlieb Fichte (Wissenschaftslehre), Immanuel Kant (Critique of Judgment, Critique of Pure Reason, Critique of Practical Reason), Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (Oration on the Dignity of Man), Renaissance, Leon Battista Alberti (De re aedificatoria, De pictura, Santa Maria Novella, Sant’Andrea in Mantua), Jacques Lacan (The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psycho-Analysis), Nicolas Cusanus (De circuli quadratura, De coniecturis, De Docta Ignorantia), Vorstellung, Romanticism, Marsilio Ficino (Theologia Platonica, De amore), Georges Bataille (Visions of Excess), Roger Caillois (The Necessity of the Mind), Athanasius Kircher (Ars Magna Lucis et Umbrae, Primitiae Gnomonicae Catopticae, Oedipi Aegyptiaci), Piero della Francesca (De prospectiva pingendi), Euclid (Elements of Geometry), Jacques Derrida (Speech and Phenomena, Writing and Difference, Positions), Paul Cézanne, Sigmund Freud (The Ego and the Id, Beyond the Pleasure Principle), Noam Chomsky (Aspects of the Theory of Syntax, Language and Mind, Syntactical Structures), Peter Eisenman, Giuseppe Terragni (Casa Giuliani Frigerio), Fredric Jameso

FACTORS AFFECTING CONSERVATION PRACTICE BEHAVIOR OF CRP PARTICIPANTS IN ALABAMA

This study examines the factors that affect conservation practice choices of CRP farmers in Alabama. From over 9,000 contracts enrolled in the state between 1986 and 1995, 594 were randomly selected for the study. A multiple-regression analysis was employed to analyze the data. Results indicate that education, ratio of cropland in CRP, farm size, gender, prior crop practice, and geographic location of contract had a significant influence on the choice of conservation practice adopted.conservation practices, Conservation Reserve Program, CRP contracts, cost share, erodible cropland, grass practice, land retirement, tree practice, Farm Management, Land Economics/Use,

A Novel Method to Increase LinLog CMOS Sensors’ Performance in High Dynamic Range Scenarios

Images from high dynamic range (HDR) scenes must be obtained with minimum loss of information. For this purpose it is necessary to take full advantage of the quantification levels provided by the CCD/CMOS image sensor. LinLog CMOS sensors satisfy the above demand by offering an adjustable response curve that combines linear and logarithmic responses. This paper presents a novel method to quickly adjust the parameters that control the response curve of a LinLog CMOS image sensor. We propose to use an Adaptive Proportional-Integral-Derivative controller to adjust the exposure time of the sensor, together with control algorithms based on the saturation level and the entropy of the images. With this method the sensor’s maximum dynamic range (120 dB) can be used to acquire good quality images from HDR scenes with fast, automatic adaptation to scene conditions. Adaptation to a new scene is rapid, with a sensor response adjustment of less than eight frames when working in real time video mode. At least 67% of the scene entropy can be retained with this method