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Macarthur, John Technique and the Clash of Language: Some Thoughts on Tafuri's The Sphere and the Labyrinth' 1990 Transition: Discourse on Architecture, 32, pp. 6-21.

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individualisticaccountof Poucaulfs thought on langaageand power whichlafuriclaimsareinterconnected toad-= it understood by Foucault. The title translates&$ Textual Reading and Discuisive Practice".

7 ManfredoTafuri,TheSphereand theLalurinlh.M.I.T.Press,Cambridge,1987.p.5.
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9 #bid..p. 14. 10 SeeJeffMinson's Strategiefor Socialists?, Economy andSociety, vol.9no.1, pp. 1-43
11 ManfredoTafuri,TheSphereandtheLaby'mth, op. <it,, p. 15,
12 MaryMcLeod,'ArchitectureandPoliticsintheRega"Era:PromPost-ModernismtoDeconstnictlvlsm',Assemblage nos, pp. 23-59,

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ManfredoTafuri, 'Letturadel T e s t o ' , p.44.

6 ManfredoTafuri, 'L^tturadel Testd,p, 2, quoting Foucault, Theorder of Discourse',p.23 Untying theText,d. %Young, Routhedge, Kegan, Paul., 1981 17 Manfred0T a k a ' h a del Testd.p. 40.

18 HeterotopiaisaminortheoreticalinventionolFoucaulfs.Like~topia,heterotopiaholdsageneralrelaticn~oall~~her places. u t o p i a s might be models or critiques premised on the" fictionalnature,but heterotopias, such a monasteries and brothels exist in the real spa* of the world contesting itsorder. Foucault mentions hetcrotopia in The Order of Thi#p,
Tavistock, 1970, pp. xv-xviii, and in 'Of Other Spaces', Dmcrtics, vol.16, no.1, 1986, pp. 22-27. There are substantial differences between the two uses. Tafuri's interest i n heternto* is most apparent i n 'Cd-i "'St pas une ville', Lotus

ht~w~~wl~3,butW~d~c~~on~l~hem~pt~~n~~ke~ther~lF~~caul~~,al~ho~ghnotasw~~~~~~ inSomcesofModern Eclecticism, London, 1982.

19 Tafuriin 'LetturedelTeslo',usesasexamplesof FoucaulfsreadinghisanalysisofMagritte'sThisisnotaPipe,intbe bookofthat name,Art Quantum, 1983,and hisreading of Velasquez' LasMeninas, from The Order of'Things,of <it. 20 The Sphereand the Labyinlh. M.1.T Press, Cambridge, 1997. p. 13.

AA. Files m-8,pp. 21-38. Ham Sedlniayr. Art <??Crisis: Thetost Centre, Henry %cry

Althoughamoreexplicitand&tremeargumentlsthatof DaliborVesclyin'~tectureand~beCrisisofRepresentation' Co, Chicago, 19%.

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NotacoidingtoJosephRykwertfromwhose'InheritanceorTradition'ItakethisAlbertianexample.'LeonBattista

A l b e r t ' , A.D. Profiles 21, Architectural Design, Vol.49, "0.4-5,1979.

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