luís pavan

@luispavan.bsky.social

Personal Profile. Assistant Professor Escola de Arquitetura EAUFMG. PhD (UFSC). Visiting Scholar (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar). Modern architectural history and theory and the histories of modern infrastructure. Writing in Portuguese, English, and German.

Oficialmente empossado como professor na Escola de Arquitetura da UFMG. Será um grande prazer integrar o quadro permanente de uma das mais prestigiadas instituições de ensino do Brasil e da América Latina!

"Fascism doesn't return as a tick list of characteristics. Fascism is a fluid and dynamic force which operates at the level of social desires before it appears as jackboots. We need to learn to sense it in our infrastructures as well as in our political discourse."

Dan McQuillan@danmcquillan.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I posted my speaker notes from the opening plenary ('The Empire of Big Tech') and the afternoon panel ('Is This Technofascism?') danmcquillan.org/resisting_bi...

The Last Supper, 1486, large fresco by Domenico Ghirlandaio (1448-1494), versatile Florentine Renaissance artist, master of Michelangelo. Ghirlandaio painted an earlier version (1480) at Ognissanti Convent, which inspired Leonardo’s Last Supper at Milan. Refectory San Marco Florence #MaundyThursday

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Underrated that the era of neoliberal globalism characterized by fierce defense of intellectual property as rents, patents, and copyrights gave way so quickly to a new paradigm marked by the blithe plunder of all human creativity for LLM training data.

"[...] It’s a glass building, after all. To him, the gargantuan structure doesn’t signal ancient Greek democracy as much as a Singapore convention hall or the atrium of a Dubai tower. It’s the placeless architecture of 21st-century global capital. He calls it 'Airport Sublime.'"

Annette Yoshiko Reed@annetteyreed.bsky.social · 6mo ago

“Maybe the leaders of our nation’s wealthiest universities can’t think a generation ahead anymore, beholden as they are to board members who think in terms of the next quarter….” - François Furstenberg @publicbooks.bsky.social www.publicbooks.org/the-misuses-...

My favorite book cover with my favorite outdated information: Chicago on Foot by Ira J. Bach, 1973. Why not take a walk and see the foreign vessels docked at Navy Pier, go shopping at Sears, and conduct some astronomical research at Lindheimer Observatory?

A photo of me holding the book Chicago on Foot by Ira J. Bach, 1973. The yellow cover depicts an upside down show with buildings and attractions coming out of it. Foreign vessels docked at the original Navy Pier before it became an annoying tourist attraction. The old Sears Roebuck store located in the Leiter II building designed by architect William Le Baron Jenney in 1891.Lindheimer Observatory at Northwestern University on the shores of Lake Michigan, built in 1966 and torn down in 1995.