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Brongniart, Alexandre Théodore
Brongniart was a pupil of Jacques François Blondel. He was associated with Jacques Ange Gabriel, and succeeded him as architect of the École Militaire. Brongniart'e chief work is the Bourse (Exchange), in Paris, which he designed. The first stone was laid March 24, 1808. He completed only the basement.
Unknowing
"We might begin this analysis by recalling some minimal requirements of the Enlightenment model. For his part, Forster grasps that the incapacity to tolerate the other (as others) that fuels Western subjectivity mandates, in a colonial context, an exclusionary dynamic: "We must exclude someone from our gathering, or we shall be left with nothing," the narrator muses. We know ourselves by what we exclude, and this "we" is plural, group-shaped; such is the enabling premise of ideology itself. If the other cannot be transformed into a version of the same, it must be cast out, as not-us. As Pierre Machenry writes, "Like a planet revolving round an absent sun, an ideology is made of what it does not mention." Made up of what it does not mention, ideology achieves group coherence by abjecting its other outside the group's constituent borders. If the act of excluding others is definitive, in both senses, of individual (but group-secured) identity, how could individuals pass beyond their (group's) borders and yet retain coherence?"
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