Currently he is teaching at the Strelka Institute in Moscow and the University of Art and Design in Linz (Austria). Theo Deutinger lectured and kept teaching engagements with institutions like the Bauhaus (Dessau) and Harvard GSD (Cambridge). Deutinger’s work is frequently published in various magazines like Mark, Wired, Domus and has been exhibited at various occasions like the Future Fictions exhibition at Z33 in Hasselt (2014), 14th Architecture Biennale in Venice (2014) and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam (2017). He is known for his writings about the transformation of Europe’s urban culture through consummation and the influence of media. Deutinger has developed ‘Snapshots of Globalization’ being multilayered illustrations and maps that represent the world in this very particular moment. He is founder and head of TD, an office that combines architecture with research, visualization, and conceptual thinking in all scale levels from global planning, urban master plans, architecture to graphical and journalistic work. Theo Deutinger is an architect, writer, and designer of socio-cultural studies. Handbook of Tyranny gives a profound insight into the relationship between political power, territoriality and systematic cruelties. Yet the scale of authoritarian intervention and their stealth design adds to the growing difficulty of linking cause and effect. The twenty-first century shows a general striving for an ever more regulated and protective society. The level of detail depicted in the illustrations of the book mirror the repressive efforts taken by authorities around the globe. The dry and factual style of storytelling through technical drawings is the graphic equivalent to bureaucratic rigidity born of laws and regulations. None of these cruelties represent extraordinary violence-they reflect day-to-day implementation of laws and regulations around the globe.Įvery page of the book questions our current world of walls and fences, police tactics and prison cells, crowd control and refugee camps.
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The best part of On Tyranny is the epilogue, a thoughtful meditation on the fate of history in our moment.Handbook of Tyranny portrays the routine cruelties of the twenty-first century through a series of detailed non-fictional graphic illustrations. Aside from a smart paragraph about marching, Snyder has nothing useful to say about such democratic resistance. Nor does he look too closely at the ways these regimes resemble-or do not resemble-one another. Yet he never explains exactly how he thinks the experience of an American today is comparable to the experience of a Russian in the Soviet Union or a German living under the Third Reich.
Snyder’s advice to Americans is, he tells us, based on his study of repressive regimes. There is a strange disjunction between the gravity of the situation Snyder warns against (Hitler-style tyranny) and the banality of his advice. Yet many of the directives Snyder urges on his readers are a little vague and mystifying.
It’s also commendable that in On Tyranny, Snyder counsels taking action rather than merely taking refuge in historical comparison. As a Professor of History at Yale University, Professor Snyder uses his expertise to lay out the importance of learning from the mistakes made throughout history, and to warn against a cavalier attitude towards the strength of our own democracy. Snyder is right to think that the discipline of history has special value in strengthening democracy and combating authoritarianism. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder is a 2017 Tim Duggan Books publication. On Tyranny starts from a salutary impulse. a curious mixture of historical anecdotes and self-help bromides, premised on the idea that America is at the dawn of a tyrannical age, and that the past offers clues for resistance.
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