Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Hirsch, Nikolaus
2. Miessen, Markus
3. Lawler, Louise

Description

1. 141 pages : color illustrations; 15 x 11 cm.

Summary

1. A collection of new sci-fi tall tales about Henry Ickles, architect of quantum structures and huckster of the highest order, Ickles, Etc." concerns the practice of this largely inept “info-architect” in a future New Los Angeles.
2. "In this fifth book in the Critical Spatial Practice series, Mark von Schlegell's fusion of theory and fiction puts the SciFi back into notions of “speculative aesthetics.” A collection of interconnected comical sci-fi stories written for various exhibitions, Ickles, Etc. explores the future of architectural practice in light of developments in climatology, quasicrystalography, hyper-contemporary art, time travel, and the EGONET" -- E-flux.com.

Series statement

1. Critical spatial practice ; 5

Uniform title

1. Critical spatial practice ; 5.

Alternative title

1. Ickles, etcetera

Subject

1. Art and society
2. Architecture and society
3. Space (Architecture)
4. Experimental fiction, American
5. Science fiction, American
6. Los Angeles (Calif.) > Buildings, structures, etc > Fiction
7. Experimental fiction, American > 21st century
8. 2000-2099
9. Architecture and society > 21st century > Fiction
10. Kurzepik
11. Kunst
12. Art and society > History > 21st century > Fiction
13. Space (Architecture) > 21st century > Fiction
14. Science fiction
15. Science fiction, American > 21st century
16. Architecture > Philosophy
17. Architektur
18. Science-Fiction

Genre/Form

1. Science fiction, American – 21st century.
2. Experimental fiction, American – 21st century.
3. Science fiction.

Contents

1. Artichoke now -- Never underestimate the quasicrystal -- Despise August -- The kindly 1(n) -- Theory of everything -- Afterword : Was the artificial : Ickles "live" @ the Monte Carlo Club / Dr. V. M. Reever.

Owning institution

1. Columbia University Libraries

Note

1. "Mark von Schlegell is the author of the novels Venusia, Mercury Station, and the forthcoming Sundogz from Semiotext(e), as well as of two books of literary theory, Realometer and Dreaming the Mainstream, from Merve Verlag, Berlin. Schlegell has directed the Pure Fiction seminar at Städelschule in Frankfurt since 2012, which has published three experimental fiction compendia" -- Sternberg Press.