Adventures With the Theory of the Baroque and French Philosophy

includes index and biblioraphy

Variations on the Theme of Baroque Theory and philosophy.................1 1. The philosophical Theory of baroque The Baroque and Jouissance: Ja cques Lacan ................37 The Baroque and the Fold: Gilles Deleuze ..................57 2. Modernity, Madness, and the Baroque criticism Cogito and the Baroque in the age of Reason : Reading Foucault ..........79 Baroque Reason and the madness of Vision : Reading Buci-Glucksmann .................93 Theology and the Baroque room : Reading benjamin ................104 Culture industry and the baroque : Reading adorno ...............112 3. Architecture and the theory of the Baroque The misadventure of architecture with French Philosophy .......123 Digital Neobaroque and the hyper- deleuzeans of Architecture ......131 Against the Architectural reading of the Fold ...............141 The draped neobaroque: Is it possible not to love Frank Gehry ...........149 4. Postrationalism and the Adventure with French Philosophy Desuturing architecture : Philosophy and antiphilosophy .........181 Capitalism, idolatry, and Critique of Neobaroque ideology ................189