Contents
Introduction : Act Two by Jeffrey Kipnis vi
1 Post/El Cards: A Reply to Jacques Derrida
2 The Author's Affect: Passion and the Moment of Architecture
3 Unfolding Events: Frankfurt Rebstockpark and the Possibility of a New Urbanism 12
4 The Affects of Singularity 19
5 Folding in Time: The Singularity of Rebstock 25
6 Vision's Unfolding: Architecture in the Age of Electronic Media 34
7 Presentness and the Being-Only-Once of Architecture 42
8 Processes of the Interstitial: Notes on Zaera-Polo's Idea of the Machinic 50
9 Separate Tricks 72
10 Written into the Void 79
11 Diagram: An Original Scene of Writing 87
12 Autonomy and the Will to the Critical 95
13 Mies and the Figuring of Absence 100
14 Blurred Zones 108
15 L'ora che e stata 113
16 A Matrix in the Jungle 120
17 Terragni and the Idea of a Critical Text 126
18 Digital Scrambler: From Index to Codex 133
19 The Wicked Critic 151
Appendix: Letter from Jacques Derrida to Peter Eisenman 160
Selected Bibliography: Writings of Peter Eisenman, 1990-2004 169
Sources 173
Index 175