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ItemDiagrammatology(Alt-X Press, 2007)Drawing together Derrida’s interest in grammatology and the inventive, and contemporary architectural interest in diagrams, this paper proposes the notion of ‘diagrammatology’.7 Diagrammatology is understood here as a generative process: a ‘metaphor’ or way of thinking – diagrammatic, diagrammatological thinking – which, in turn, is linked to poetic thinking. This understanding is informed by contemporary architectural theory which conceives of the diagram as a ‘temporary formulation of intentions still to be realized, a machine for learning and change’, a ‘heuristic method’.8 This paper develops diagrammatology through example, by exploring three iterations of the (architectural) diagram. The first iteration is Derrida’s choral grid diagram, which emerged from his reading of the chora section of Plato’s Timaeus – a reading that framed his collaboration with the architect Peter Eisenman on Bernard Tschumi’s Parc de la Villette project. The second iteration is the use Gregory Ulmer subsequently made of Derrida’s choral diagram and reading of the Timaeus in the development of the genre of ‘mystory’ and ‘heuretics’ (the ‘logic of invention’). The third iteration uses the choral grid as a guiding figure for speculating on the intermingled nature of contemporary teletechnologies.
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ItemEvolutions of Lascaux(Ashgate, 2005)This paper charts the evolutions of the Lascaux cave in its various manifestations from the ‘original’ rock art discovered in 1940 to the replica construction ‘Lascaux II’ and a recent travelling exhibition ‘Virtual Lascaux’. The discussion briefly outlines these evolutions and then, employing the notion of the ‘hyperreal’ and the ‘simulacrum’, examines them and the paradoxical nature of ‘copies’ of an ‘original’ work of rock art.