Spyros Papapetros
Biographic Data
| ID | 5656589 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Spyros Papapetros |
| GIVEN NAMES | Spyros |
| FAMILY NAME | Papapetros |
| SIGNATURE | PAPAPETROS S |
| AFFILIATIONS | SPYROS PAPAPETROS is the author of On the Animation of the Inorganic (Chicago, 2012). |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Toward a General Architectural Theory of Magic (from Mauss to Breton to Kiesler)
Drawing from the theorization of magical practices, rites, and techniques by Henri Hubert and Marcel Mauss in their 1902 essay on a “General Theory of Magic,” this brief response argues that the ethnosociological discourse on magic at the beginning of the previous century also charts an alternative theory of space that covertly informs modern theories and histories of architecture. A tentative alignment between anthropological theories of magic a…
Von … bis, from… to: The Arc of Anthony Vidler's Architecture
Architectural historians often manifest a strong design impulse in their writing. This essay traces the theoretical arc traversing Anthony Vidler's individual essays and book projects as the parabolic imprint of his historiographic design. Based on unpublished manuscripts of the architectural historian's preliminary book outlines, drafts, and reading notes on authors such as Émile Zola, Sigmund Freud, and Georges Bataille, the article follows the…
Hairy Details
A Questionnaire on Materialisms
Recent philosophical tendencies of "Actor-Network Theory," "Object-Oriented Ontology," and "Speculative Realism" have profoundly challenged the centrality of subjectivity in the humanities, and many artists and curators, particularly in the UK, Germany, and the United States, appear deeply influenced by this shift from epistemology to ontology. October editors asked artists, historians, and philosophers invested in these projects-from Graham Harm…
Warburgs Denkraum: Formen, Motive, Materialien
Zu den besonderen Wortprägungen des Hamburger Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaftlers Aby Warburg gehört die Figur des Denkraums. Darunter verstand er den »im Kampf mit den dämonischen Lebensmächten« gewonnenen Ort zwischen Objekt und Betrachter, an dem Reflexion erst möglich ist. Bilder verstand er hier als Werkzeuge zur Bewältigung der auch als gefährlich zu verstehenden Energien. Denn den visuellen Objekten sind eigenaktive und unkontrollierbare Ant…
L’âme est l’architecte de son propre corps »: Animisme et tectonique entre la forêt ancienne et la ville moderne
À une époque où l’on s’est efforcé de redéfinir la nature de la vie et de faire de l’âme ( anima ou psyché) une autorité centrale dans l’organisation de tout processus matériel et immatériel, l’architecture sert non seulement de métaphore structurelle, mais aussi de schéma épistémologique capable de recadrer la formation tectonique de tout être vivant. Cet article retrace les manifestations externes et les processus méthodologiques internes de ce…
From Ornament to Object to Surface
Scorned, depreciated, and often disengaged from any utilitarian value, ornament may find a new use in its capacity to represent changes in political power. In their book L’Évolution régressive en Biologie et en Sociologie (1897; Evolution by Atrophy, 1899), Belgian theorists Demoor, Massart, and Vandervelde describe how previously well-developed animal organs gradually lose strength and are reduced into rudiments that sometimes pose as ornamental…
Warburg, lecteur de Semper: Ornement, Parure Et Analogie Cosmique
Entouré d’un monde plein de merveilles et de forces – et il a conscience des lois de ce monde qu’il s’efforce de résoudre sans jamais éclaircir, ces lois qui se précipitent vers lui sous la forme d’harmonies fragmentaires individuelles et qui maintiennent ses sentiments dans un état continu de surexcitation inassouvie – l’homme évoque la perfection qui lui échappe à travers le jeu ; il construit pour lui-même un monde miniature dans lequel les lo…
Modern architecture and prehistory: RetracingThe Eternal Present(Sigfried Giedion and André Leroi-Gourhan)
In/Animate Victims: Cultural Reactions to Animation
Movements of the Soul: Traversing Animism, Fetishism, and the Uncanny
Movements of the Soul:Traversing Animism, Fetishism, and the Uncanny Spyros Papapetros (bio) It is a thin insubstantial human image, its nature a sort of vapour, film or shadow; the cause of life and thought in the individual it animates; independently possessing the personal consciousness and volition of its corporeal owner, past or present; capable of leaving the body far behind to flash swiftly from place to place; mostly impalpable and yet al…
Between the Academy and the Avant-Garde: Carl Einstein and Fritz Saxl Correspond
January 01 2012 Between the Academy and the Avant-Garde: Carl Einstein and Fritz Saxl Correspond Spyros Papapetros Spyros Papapetros SPYROS PAPAPETROS teaches theory and historiography in the School of Architecture and the Program in Media and Modernity at Princeton University. He is the author of On the Animation of the Inorganic: Art, Architecture, and the Extension of Life (University of Chicago Press, 2012) and the editor of Space as Membrane…
Microcosme et macrocosme entre l'académie et l'avant-garde: Notes sur la correspondance éditoriale de Carl Einstein (Documents) et Fritz Saxl (bibliothèque Warburg)
Au début de l'année 1929, Carl Einstein, alors éditeur de la revue Documents, échangea quelques lettres avec Fritz Saxl, directeur de la bibliothèque Warburg, dans lesquelles il se demandait si les intellectuels de Hambourg accepteraient de rédiger de courts articles pour la revue parisienne. La seule contribution qui lui parvint fut le manuscrit du séminaire de Saxl sur l'histoire des représentations « microcosmiques » et « macrocosmiques », qui…
On the formal principles of adornment and its meaning as a symbol in art (second section)
World ornament: The legacy of Gottfried Semper's 1856 lecture on adornment
Malicious Houses: Animation, Animism, Animosity in German Architecture and Film—From Mies to Murnau
The Eternal Seesaw: Oscillations in Warburg's Revival
Journal Article The Eternal Seesaw: Oscillations in Warburg's Revival Get access Georges Didi-Huberman : L'image survivante. Histoire de Part et temps des fantômes selon Aby Warburg , ( Les éditions de minuit : Paris , 2002 ), 93 b&w illns, 592 pp., paper ISBN 2-7073-1772-1 , €27.00 Spyros Papapetros Spyros Papapetros Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Oxford Art Journal, Volume 26, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 169–1…
A Questionnaire on Materialisms
Recent philosophical tendencies of "Actor-Network Theory," "Object-Oriented Ontology," and "Speculative Realism" have profoundly challenged the centrality of subjectivity in the humanities, and many artists and curators, particularly in the UK, Germany, and the United States, appear deeply influenced by this shift from epistemology to ontology. October editors asked artists, historians, and philosophers invested in these projects-from Graham Harm…
Movements of the Soul: Traversing Animism, Fetishism, and the Uncanny
Movements of the Soul:Traversing Animism, Fetishism, and the Uncanny Spyros Papapetros (bio) It is a thin insubstantial human image, its nature a sort of vapour, film or shadow; the cause of life and thought in the individual it animates; independently possessing the personal consciousness and volition of its corporeal owner, past or present; capable of leaving the body far behind to flash swiftly from place to place; mostly impalpable and yet al…
Between the Academy and the Avant-Garde: Carl Einstein and Fritz Saxl Correspond
January 01 2012 Between the Academy and the Avant-Garde: Carl Einstein and Fritz Saxl Correspond Spyros Papapetros Spyros Papapetros SPYROS PAPAPETROS teaches theory and historiography in the School of Architecture and the Program in Media and Modernity at Princeton University. He is the author of On the Animation of the Inorganic: Art, Architecture, and the Extension of Life (University of Chicago Press, 2012) and the editor of Space as Membrane…
Warburg, lecteur de Semper: Ornement, Parure Et Analogie Cosmique
Entouré d’un monde plein de merveilles et de forces – et il a conscience des lois de ce monde qu’il s’efforce de résoudre sans jamais éclaircir, ces lois qui se précipitent vers lui sous la forme d’harmonies fragmentaires individuelles et qui maintiennent ses sentiments dans un état continu de surexcitation inassouvie – l’homme évoque la perfection qui lui échappe à travers le jeu ; il construit pour lui-même un monde miniature dans lequel les lo…
Modern architecture and prehistory: RetracingThe Eternal Present(Sigfried Giedion and André Leroi-Gourhan)
Malicious Houses: Animation, Animism, Animosity in German Architecture and Film—From Mies to Murnau
The Eternal Seesaw: Oscillations in Warburg's Revival
Journal Article The Eternal Seesaw: Oscillations in Warburg's Revival Get access Georges Didi-Huberman : L'image survivante. Histoire de Part et temps des fantômes selon Aby Warburg , ( Les éditions de minuit : Paris , 2002 ), 93 b&w illns, 592 pp., paper ISBN 2-7073-1772-1 , €27.00 Spyros Papapetros Spyros Papapetros Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Oxford Art Journal, Volume 26, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 169–1…
The Eternal Seesaw: Oscillations in Warburg's Revival
Journal Article The Eternal Seesaw: Oscillations in Warburg's Revival Get access Georges Didi-Huberman : L'image survivante. Histoire de Part et temps des fantômes selon Aby Warburg , ( Les éditions de minuit : Paris , 2002 ), 93 b&w illns, 592 pp., paper ISBN 2-7073-1772-1 , €27.00 Spyros Papapetros Spyros Papapetros Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Oxford Art Journal, Volume 26, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 169–1…
Malicious Houses: Animation, Animism, Animosity in German Architecture and Film—From Mies to Murnau
On the formal principles of adornment and its meaning as a symbol in art (second section)
World ornament: The legacy of Gottfried Semper's 1856 lecture on adornment
Microcosme et macrocosme entre l'académie et l'avant-garde: Notes sur la correspondance éditoriale de Carl Einstein (Documents) et Fritz Saxl (bibliothèque Warburg)
Au début de l'année 1929, Carl Einstein, alors éditeur de la revue Documents, échangea quelques lettres avec Fritz Saxl, directeur de la bibliothèque Warburg, dans lesquelles il se demandait si les intellectuels de Hambourg accepteraient de rédiger de courts articles pour la revue parisienne. La seule contribution qui lui parvint fut le manuscrit du séminaire de Saxl sur l'histoire des représentations « microcosmiques » et « macrocosmiques », qui…
In/Animate Victims: Cultural Reactions to Animation
Movements of the Soul: Traversing Animism, Fetishism, and the Uncanny
Movements of the Soul:Traversing Animism, Fetishism, and the Uncanny Spyros Papapetros (bio) It is a thin insubstantial human image, its nature a sort of vapour, film or shadow; the cause of life and thought in the individual it animates; independently possessing the personal consciousness and volition of its corporeal owner, past or present; capable of leaving the body far behind to flash swiftly from place to place; mostly impalpable and yet al…
Between the Academy and the Avant-Garde: Carl Einstein and Fritz Saxl Correspond
January 01 2012 Between the Academy and the Avant-Garde: Carl Einstein and Fritz Saxl Correspond Spyros Papapetros Spyros Papapetros SPYROS PAPAPETROS teaches theory and historiography in the School of Architecture and the Program in Media and Modernity at Princeton University. He is the author of On the Animation of the Inorganic: Art, Architecture, and the Extension of Life (University of Chicago Press, 2012) and the editor of Space as Membrane…
From Ornament to Object to Surface
Scorned, depreciated, and often disengaged from any utilitarian value, ornament may find a new use in its capacity to represent changes in political power. In their book L’Évolution régressive en Biologie et en Sociologie (1897; Evolution by Atrophy, 1899), Belgian theorists Demoor, Massart, and Vandervelde describe how previously well-developed animal organs gradually lose strength and are reduced into rudiments that sometimes pose as ornamental…
Warburg, lecteur de Semper: Ornement, Parure Et Analogie Cosmique
Entouré d’un monde plein de merveilles et de forces – et il a conscience des lois de ce monde qu’il s’efforce de résoudre sans jamais éclaircir, ces lois qui se précipitent vers lui sous la forme d’harmonies fragmentaires individuelles et qui maintiennent ses sentiments dans un état continu de surexcitation inassouvie – l’homme évoque la perfection qui lui échappe à travers le jeu ; il construit pour lui-même un monde miniature dans lequel les lo…
Modern architecture and prehistory: RetracingThe Eternal Present(Sigfried Giedion and André Leroi-Gourhan)
Warburgs Denkraum: Formen, Motive, Materialien
Zu den besonderen Wortprägungen des Hamburger Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaftlers Aby Warburg gehört die Figur des Denkraums. Darunter verstand er den »im Kampf mit den dämonischen Lebensmächten« gewonnenen Ort zwischen Objekt und Betrachter, an dem Reflexion erst möglich ist. Bilder verstand er hier als Werkzeuge zur Bewältigung der auch als gefährlich zu verstehenden Energien. Denn den visuellen Objekten sind eigenaktive und unkontrollierbare Ant…
L’âme est l’architecte de son propre corps »: Animisme et tectonique entre la forêt ancienne et la ville moderne
À une époque où l’on s’est efforcé de redéfinir la nature de la vie et de faire de l’âme ( anima ou psyché) une autorité centrale dans l’organisation de tout processus matériel et immatériel, l’architecture sert non seulement de métaphore structurelle, mais aussi de schéma épistémologique capable de recadrer la formation tectonique de tout être vivant. Cet article retrace les manifestations externes et les processus méthodologiques internes de ce…
A Questionnaire on Materialisms
Recent philosophical tendencies of "Actor-Network Theory," "Object-Oriented Ontology," and "Speculative Realism" have profoundly challenged the centrality of subjectivity in the humanities, and many artists and curators, particularly in the UK, Germany, and the United States, appear deeply influenced by this shift from epistemology to ontology. October editors asked artists, historians, and philosophers invested in these projects-from Graham Harm…
Hairy Details
Von … bis, from… to: The Arc of Anthony Vidler's Architecture
Architectural historians often manifest a strong design impulse in their writing. This essay traces the theoretical arc traversing Anthony Vidler's individual essays and book projects as the parabolic imprint of his historiographic design. Based on unpublished manuscripts of the architectural historian's preliminary book outlines, drafts, and reading notes on authors such as Émile Zola, Sigmund Freud, and Georges Bataille, the article follows the…
Toward a General Architectural Theory of Magic (from Mauss to Breton to Kiesler)
Drawing from the theorization of magical practices, rites, and techniques by Henri Hubert and Marcel Mauss in their 1902 essay on a “General Theory of Magic,” this brief response argues that the ethnosociological discourse on magic at the beginning of the previous century also charts an alternative theory of space that covertly informs modern theories and histories of architecture. A tentative alignment between anthropological theories of magic a…
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