Mind and Matter

Where Mark Kingwell tries to break new ground in Concrete Reveries, however, is in applying historical texts, from Walter Benjamin and René Descartes to Sigmund Freud and the novels of J. G. Ballard, to problems of contemporary city planning, including Chinese Olympic airAitecture and skyscraper design In a book heavy on philosophy, Kingwell discusses boundaries, thresholds, and the multivalent borders that divide inside from out He looks at how spatialization affects- and is affected by-historically specific styles of thinking.