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Fundamentals of Building Deconstruction as a Circular Economy Strategy for the Reuse of Construction Materials
The construction industry is one of the most environmentally detrimental industries in the world, impacting directly the use of raw materials, their determination of use involving the whole lifecycle, as well as all their surrounding environment. However, within the building sector, the transition from a linear to a circular economy is still at an early stage. Business models need to be reconsidered to include new and improved methods and innovative services that could lead to a net reduction in the use of resources and minimizing the waste disposed on landfills. In this context, an important role in buildings’ circularity is “deconstruction”, which is understood as a well-considered selective dismantlement of building components, in prevision of a future reuse, repurposing, or recycling. It represents a sustainable alternative to common demolition, which tends to be an arbitrary and destructive process, and although faster and cheaper, it typically creates a substantial amount of waste. The purpose of this article is to analyze the deconstruction potential of buildings and the strategies to apply in order to keep the impacts on the urban environment low. The article aims to facilitate the implementation of circular economy strategies for buildings by proposing common principles for deconstruction as a sustainable alternative to demolition and defining the key points to be applied during the design and planning process regardless of the type of construction system or material used.
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Derrida
Derrida: Profanations presents a re-appraisal of Jacques Derrida's deconstruction.If philosophy articulates what it means to be human, then deconstruction, which Patrick O'Connor argues consigns all existence to a mortal, profane and worldly life remains radically philosophical.
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Conclusion
Dans ces conclusions, nous voulons revenir sur la notion de « partage » des savoirs qui donne le titre å ce livre, de maniere å revenir ďune part, sur le réseau francophone d'AD et de ľautre, sur le role de la langue française en tant qu'instrument d'« influence eulturelle ». Un partage qui, lors de ¡'exclusion, donne lieu å un espace de resistance, puisque l'ADF, tout en se soustrayant å toute definition, est quand méme, comme le dit Narvaja de Arnoux dans son chapitre, une « pratique interpretative », qui, ajoutons-nous, demande un changement de perspective, une prise de conscience, un regard « engage » porté sur le monde. Il est alors possible de parier de « sofi power », c'est-å-dire d'« influence culturelle » (Chaubet 2013) ou bien de « diplomaţie d'influence » (Juppé, Schweitzer 2008 ; Martel 2017), au sens oii ce type d'influence (Martel 2017 : 69) « ne depend que partiellement du role des Etats (...) Dans ¡'introduction a la traduction française du livre d'Eni Puccinelli Orlandi sur Ies formes du silence, Francine Mazie re precise justement que ce livre « est une sorte de défi venu d'un pays qui a su s'approprier et transformer nos manieres de penser et de dire » (Maziėre 1996: 8), 3.
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Foucault/Derrida fifty years later : the futures of genealogy, deconstruction, and politics
This volume presents an exchange in debates over the possibilities of genealogy and deconstruction, immanent and transcendent approaches to philosophy, and the practical and theoretical role of the archive.
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The Liber Vaccae/Kitāb Al-nawāmīs : Magic in Motion in a Medieval Manual
The Liber vaccae/Kitāb al-nawāmīs is a technical manual attributed to Plato that was compiled in the medieval Islamicate world. Although the original Arabic text does not survive in full, the work's contents are known through Latin and Hebrew translations. This dissertation challenges the claim that the Liber vaccae is a book of 'magical' procedures by examining the circumstances of its construction by an editor-compiler and its deconstruction by later transmitters and readers. For its construction, I conduct an interdisciplinary survey of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic literature from the first to the ninth centuries of the Common Era. I show that the Liber vaccae's editor-compiler navigates fraught questions about experiences that seem to be produced by divine power. By engaging with visual culture and technology, the text develops a rhetoric through which to confront the nature of prophethood. For its deconstruction, I introduce case studies of mostly late medieval Muslim, Jewish, and Christian readers who take advantage of the technical manual's malleability and reshape the Liber vaccae in some way. Such reader interventions include distinctive translation choices, acts of censorship, reattribution, and quotation. While some of these readers do engage with questions about magic, others respond to issues of textual authority, value the work as a repository of technical knowledge, or use it for entertainment purposes. My investigation of these multiple linguistic and cultural registers is supported by an extensive analysis of the Latin and Hebrew manuscripts and Arabic fragments; in the appendices I include a readable edition of the Latin text made from three major manuscripts. This philological work is the basis for a future critical edition of the Liber vaccae that will encourage further research on both its legacy and the larger genre of technical manuals.
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