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Recon - PM
-CJA-PTK-13 · File · 1992-1997
Part of Charles Jencks Archive
Contents of a folder labelled 'Recon P-M'. Includes:
-typescript titled 'Jencks Interview: post-modernism: a whole full of holes', with a covering letter from Charles to Alison Lee, University of Western Ontario, enclosing the edited transcript of the interview and a floppy disc [not included], 1996
-manuscript note, address for Victor Anderson
-fax from Hans Bertens to Charles, making arrangements to meet, 1997
-typescript letter on Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek headed paper to participants of the symposium 'Postmodernity and Postmodernism' of the Academia Europea including arrangements for slides and audio cassettes and the potential of publication, 1997
-typescript faxes from Linda Hutcheon to Charles, annotated with Charles' manuscript reply; making arrangements to meet, 1997
-typescript fax from Richard Falk on Princeton University headed paper to Charles, David Griffin and Charlene Spretnak, following up from the seminar; typescript fax reply from Charlene discussing the potential of a publication; manuscript fax from Charlene to Charles discussing the publication; manuscript fax from Charles to Charlene and Richard discussing the publications, 1996
-manuscript letter from [Ihab Hassan] on Ritz Paris headed paper thanking Charles for the hospitality at 19 Lansdowne Walk and sending a cutting, 1997
-published article 'Is modern literature post-Christian' by Michael Alexander from The Tablet, 8 June 1996
-manuscript letter on University of Durham from Pat Waugh to Charles, withdrawing from the symposium for personal reasons
-typescript titled 'Post-modern Science and Post-Christianity' by Charles, annotated
-cutting from the International Herald Tribune titled 'A Fight to the Finish in European Pay-TV', 22 Mar 1996, annotated
-manuscript note relating to Alan Read's hotel booking
-typescript [copy letter or fax?] on Universiteit Utrecht headed paper from Hans Bertrens to Charles, discussing ideas for reconsidering postmodernism, with a focus on democratization, 1996, attached manuscript note relating to Bertens' expenses
-manuscript notes of potential titles, guests and menu
-typescript titled 'reconsidering Post-modernism: Three day seminar, London, ICA, May 17-19', heavily annotated on reverse
-copy typescript titled 'Reconsidering the Postmodern at the ICA Bookshop' wth a list of titles, authors and prices, annotated with availability
-manuscript notes headed 'Margaret Rose - Value of PM culture'
-typescript titled 'Reconsidering the Post-Modern: convened by Charles Jencks and the Portrack Seminars' with programme of speakers annotated 'Urgent - Fax to Helen [illegible] for book cover', heavily annotated on reverse
-printed flyer for 'reconsidering the Postmodern' as part of the ICA Talks programme, annotated 'Fax to Mrs Charlene Spretnak', heavily annotated on reverse
-typescript fax [faded] from 'secretary' to Dionne King, ICA, sending faxes from Ihab Hassan, Anthony Giddens and Patricia Waugh for the booklet, 1996
-cutting titled 'Listed to Zyuganov sing the old song of Russian nationalism'
-manuscript notes headed 'PM Science + P-Christianity'.
-typescript titled 'reconsidering Post-modernism: Three day seminar, London, ICA, May 17-19',
-typescript letter on personal headed paper from Ihab Hassan to Charles, thanking him for sending The Post-Modern reader, for his invitation, and his comments on postmodernism [postmodernism as a multi-lectic of polylogue with other traditions], as well as confirming his travel dates, 1992
-typescript fax (faded) from Ihab Hassan, confirming his schedule and discussing postmodernism, 1996
-manuscript letter on personal headed paper from [Fred Halliday], thanking Charles for the evening at his home and mentioning meeting Richard Falk, 1996; encloses a copy review of his book; also attached are a cutting with a review of Halliday's book
-manuscript notes on the reverse of a ICA Talks printe dflyer for 'Reconsidering the Postmodern', annotated
-typescript fax [faded] from Alison, UWO English Dept, sending Linda's contact details and discussing an edited interview, 1996
-typescript titled 'Postmodern Life: A Critical Anthology' with table of contents and a brief of summary of each chapter
-empty card folder labelled 'Post-Mod Science & Post-Christianity'; labelled on reverse 'to Richard Weinstein from C Jencks'
-manuscript fax from Ihab Hassan, sending consolations, detaling his schedule and discussing 'the forms that the spirit takes im postmodern life', 1994
-copy hand-drawn map of directions to Portrack House on yellow paper
-typescript fax (faded) from Matthew Fox via Marie Devlin, to Charles, confirming Matt's travel arrangements, 1994
-typescript letter from Rob Burns on University of Warwick Department of German Studies headed paper, seeking permission to reproduce a photograph by Charles in a forthcoming book, 1994
-typescript fax from Dr Patrick Curry requesting a copy of a letter that Charles wrote to the TLS on postmodernism, 1994
-typescript fax (faded) from the Journalof Contemporary Religion, thanking Charles for agreeing to speak at their conference on 'Dissent and Change' to be held at King's College London, 1994
-typescript fax from Ian Mackinlay on Ian Mackinlay Architecture headed paper requesting Charles to write a letter in support of his nomination of Shin Takamatsu as an Honorary Fellow of the AIA, 1994
-manuscript letter from Margaret [Rose] to Charles, enclosing photocopies of a letter and publications [in Chinese] by Zhang Boying, Tianjin Aacdemy of Social Sciences. The publications include [titles translated by the author] 'Three problems about Chinese aesthetics' (1991); 'Study on Chinese painting aesthetics' (1987); 'The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics (part entries)' (1990)
-manuscript notes on phone message slip
-photocopy from an unknown publication 'The Blind Men and the Elephant' by John Godfrey Saxe
-typescript letter from Alison [Lee] on The University of Western Ontario headed paper discussing Jurassic Park, a 'DG interview' [David Griffin] and relaying anecdotes about a trip to France to see Le Tholonet [with a letter of introduction from Maggie] and attend a conference; [attached are several pages of notes on the interview but without the interview itself], 1993
-manuscript letter from Margaret Rose to Charles, enclosing a letter and business card in Chinese
-typescript titled 'Post-modern architecture and time fusion' by Charles
-copy typescript letter on personal headed paper fro Charles to Mr Zimmerman, Hochschule for Architektur and Bauwesen, apologising for leaving the conference early and offering to publish some of the papers in Architectural Design, 2992
-typescript letter from Robert Jay Lifton on The Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York headed paper sending a draft outline of the forthcoming Wellfleet meeting, with a postscript relating to Charles' travel plans, 1996
-proofs for correction of Charles' essay 'Postmodern Architecture and Time Fusion'
-brochure for Insight Media's Religion & Philosophy on Video' address to Charlene Spretnak and annotated 'clippings for Charles', with inserted cuttings and photocopies
-typescript fax from Charles to Professor Alison Lee, University of Western Ontario, requesting next steps on the interview, 1996
-typescript letter from [Alison Lee] to Charles on The University of Western Ontario headed paper, giving personal news alongside information about the publication of Charles' interview, 1994
-typescript letter from Prof. Dr. Bertalan Pethö on Platon Press, Hungary headed paper, requesting an update to Charles' contribution for the second edition of 'The Postmodern' to be published in Hungarian, 1996
-brochure for 'Reconsidering the Postmodern' conference at the ICA, 18 & 19 May 1996
-typescript titled 'Postmodern Life: table of contents' including 'Some Preliminary afterthoughts on Postmodernism - Charles Jencks (UCLA) with Alison Lee'
-typescript letter from [Alison Lee] to Charles on The University of Western Ontario headed paper, making arrangements for an interview, 1992
-typescript letter from A.M. Lee and Thomas Carmichael to Charles on The University of Western Ontario headed paper, inviting a contribution to a forthcoming volume titled 'Postmodern Life' [published as Postmodern times : a critical guide to the contemporary, 2000], 1992
PM Economics
-CJA-PTK-25 · File · 1990-2008
Part of Charles Jencks Archive
Contents of a folder labelled 'P-M Economy'. Includes:
-cutting titled 'All for the love of Money' by Niall Ferguson from Times2 31 Oct 2008
-cutting review of 'Head to Head: the coming economic battle among Japan, Europe and America' by Lester Thurow, reviewed by John Wyles, Time 29 Mar 1993
-cutting 'Dressed for Success' by Anthony Spaeth from Time, 28 Nov 1994
-cutting 'Free Trade Forever' by Barbara Rudolph from Time 3 Oct 1994
-cutting 'Protect or perish' by Sir James Goldsmith, from The Sunday Telegraph, 6 Nov 1994
-cutting 'How about a Genuine National Product?' [interview with Hazel Henderson' from Timeline No. 6 [publication of the Foundation for Global Community, formerly Beyond War], Nov/Dec 1992
-cutting 'A small price to pay for proving Malthus wrong' by Jessica Mathews, publication unknown [date annotated but water damaged]
-cutting titled 'Sovereignty and Trade' from the International Herald Tribune, 13 Jun 1994
-cutting titled 'Back to 'Reform' 50 years after Bretton Woods by Hobart Rowen, from The Washington Post
-cutting titled 'How the West was once' by Geoffrey Wheatcrofft
-cutting titled 'The View from Naples' from The Times 8 Jul 1994
-cutting titled 'Bretton Woods' Advice. The Washington Post [date unknown]
-cutting titled 'Battered and bruised' by Adam Zagorin, from Time 15 Aug 1994
-Proceeding of Three Cantor Lectures from the RSA Journal, Jun 1994
-fax copy cutting 'Darwinian guide to economic survival' from The Sunday Times, 22 May 1994
-fax copy cutting 'Financial wizard deflates currency of our fantasies' by Peter Hilmmore, 19 Jun 1994
-cutting titled 'A World Growing Richer' from the International Herald Tribune, 18-19 Jun 1994
-cutting 'Darwinian guide to economic survival' from The Sunday Times, 22 May 1994
-cutting 'Financial wizard deflates currency of our fantasies' by Peter Hilmmore, 19 Jun 1994
-cutting review of 'More People, Less Erosion' by Tiffen, Mortimore and Gichuki, by Richard North, annotated 'Indy, June 15, 1994'
-cutting review of 'Discovering Simplicity in a Complex World' by Cohen and Stewart, by Ed Regis, annotated 'NY Times Book Review 12 June 1994'
-cutting titled 'World Bank finds $178bn wasted by poorer countries', annotated 'Indy June 20, 94'
-cutting titled 'World Bank Draws Fire: babbling technocrats or unsung heroes?' from International Herald Tribune 20 Jun 1994, with post-it note giving instructions to Val on re-setting text with new pagination and spacing.
-cutting 'But now we're global' review of books by Michael E. Porter and Dertouzos, Solow and Lester, TLS 31 Aug-6 Sep 1990
-cutting 'Making the Elephant Dance' by Adam Zagorbin from Time, 6 May 1991
-cutting 'Finishing tape in sight for the marathon Gatt talks' from The Guardian 14 Apr 1994
-cutting 'Blair's Utopian vision is not enough' , [publication unknown], annotated
-cutting 'Better idea on British business', 25 May 1994, annotated
-cutting 'We already number too many' by Donella Meadows', and photocopies, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr 1994
-cutting 'Sure, the Stock Market's Crazy - Crazy like a Fox' by Anthony Ramirez, from The New York Times 3 Apr 1994
-Science Times pages from The New York Times 5 Apr 1994
-cutting 'Ruts on Data Highway' The New York Times 7 Apr 1994, annotated
-cutting 'Did Greenspan set of the leverage tripwire?', Los Angeles Times [date unknown]
-cutting 'Cut international financing of Third World arms', The Washington Post [date unknown], annotated
-cutting 'More fight left in the Uruguay Round' [date and publication unknown]
-cutting 'My Biggest Mistake by John Naisbitt [date and publication unknown]
-cutting 'Russia and China: a take of 2 'Cures'' by Peter Passell, annotated 'April 16-17, 94 IHT'
-cutting 'China unveils 'green' growth plan', annotated 'IHT April 16-17, 94",
cutting 'World Trade Treaty signed with cheers tempered by anxiety', International herald Tribune 16-17 Apr 1994
-The Money Report pages of the International Herald Tribune 16-17 Apr 1994, annotated
-cutting 'Explaining the Markets' The New York Times, 12 Apr 1994
-Institute for Public Policy Research annual report 1992-1993
-photocopy from Green Earth Observer titled 'The Ecological Foundations of the Economic System' by Hazel Henderson [undated]
-photocopy published article 'Herman Daly: Economics as if the creation mattered' from Creation March/April [annotated '?1987']
-photocopy cutting 'Modem Operandi: as politics go digital, info highway traffic is heavy in right lane' from the Wall Street Journey, annotated 16 Mar 1994
-photocopy cutting 'Can Publishing go global?' , annotated 'March 26 94 LA Times'
-cuttings tapes to white paper titled 'U.S. see future of world trade in Asia's boom', and photocopy
-manuscript letter from Charlene Spretnak on personal headed paper enclosing a paper from one of her students, 1994; attached typescript title 'Charles Fourier: A brief exploration of his vision and its potential contribution to a Post-modern revisioning of Western culture' by Nick Ottavio, 1994
-manuscript letter from [Paul Ekins] on personal headed paper to Maggie and Charles, thanking them for their hospitality at the conference, 1994
-cutting 'The 'policy is dead' theory arrives' by Samuel Brittan, annotated 'June 6, 94'
-cutting 'Adam Smith was no Gordon Gecko', annotated 'Jan 23 94 Sunday Times'
-cutting 'Economy's happy landing: no-inflation growth' from New York Times 27 Jan 1994
-cutting 'Battle to control the skies' annotated 'March 22 94'
-cutting 'Microsoft and A.T&T. confess to a 3-month fling' from New York Times
-cutting 'The new space race in satellite communications', New York Times, 27 Mar 1994
-Science Times pages from New York Times 29 Mar 1994
-cutting ''Creeping Crash' is Investors' newest nightmare' from New York Times 3 Mar 1994
-Business Day page from New York Times 21 Jan 1994, annotated
-cutting 'Economy surges in quarter as inflation remains low', New York Times 29 Jan 1994
-World Report pages from the Los Angeles Times 8 Feb 1994
-Business pages from New York Times 27 Feb 1994
-cutting 'Developing ourselves to death' by William K. Stevens, review of 'The World Bank, Environmental Impoverishment and the crisis of development' by Bruce Rich
-cutting 'Africa's Economies: Reforms pay off' from The New York Times 13 Mar 1994
-cutting 'Betting the Bank on a Molecule' review of 'The American Marriage of Business and Technology' by Teitelman and 'One Company's Quest for the Perfect Drug' by Werth, by Charles C. Mann, from New York Times Book Review, 13 Mar 1994
-cutting, subscription offer for 'Strategic Investment'
-cutting 'Grandpa Bear says look out below' from The New York Times 3 Apr 1994 [interview with Albert E. Sindlinger]
-cutting 'Capital on Edge over Market's Erratic Pulse' annotated '4/4/94' from Los Angeles Times
-cutting 'Markets fear selling frenzy' The Sunday Times 3 Apr 1994
-cutting 'When the Square Mile felt the wind of change' annotated 'Oct 15 1990'
-cutting 'Believers in One Wave Theory see U.S. in deep trough soon' annotated 'Wall St August 8 91'
-cutting 'Japan announces series of steps to try to halt stock market slide', New York Times 19 Aug 1992
-cutting' Recession Blues' by Kumiko Makihara, Time 3 Aug 1992
-cutting 'Nobel pursuit of real-life economics' by Garth Alexander [publication and date unknown]
-photocopy 'The unanimous Declaration of Interdependence' originally published in WIN Magazine Ecology issue 1969
-photocopy 'The Future cult of S & M (science and mathematics)' by Rhonda Roland Shearer from At The Crossroads, Issue Three
-photocopy annotated 'Selections from 'The Human Economy Newsletter'
-photocopy front page of TRANET, a bi-monthly digest for the Alternative and Transformational Movements, Jan 1994
-cutting 'The Economist's depression' by David Smith, review of 'The Death of Economics' by Paul Ormerod, The Sunday Times 3 Apr 1994
-photocopy 'What The Government Should Do' by Felix Rohatyn from The New York Review, 25 Jun 1992, annotated
-photocopied bundle titled 'Prediction Company: press clippings' (1992-1994)', annotated
-typescript titled 'Prediction Company: corporate overview July 1993'
-cutting 'As Capitalism Win, the U.S. Drops Out' by Theodore J. Forstmann, The New York Times, 27 Mar 1994
-cutting 'Is Growth Moral?', review by Louis Uchitelle of Silent Depression by Wallace C. Peterson, [The New York Times, 27 Mar 1994]
-cutting 'Got the Grumps? Join the Club' by Barbara Ann Kipfer
-bundle of cuttings from 14 March 1994 from the Financial Times, Los Angeles Times and New York Times
-cutting 'Jobs in an Age of Insecurity', Time, 22 Nov 1993
-CJA-PTK-26 · File · 1991-1994
Part of Charles Jencks Archive
Contents of a folder labelled 'Order & Disorder: Portrack Conference' in black pen and ' S. Monica Conf Feb 25-7, 94' in red pen. Includes:
-photocopy published article 'Politically engaged spirituality in an emerging global civil society' by Richard Falk, Revision Vol 15 no 3, Winter 1993
-typescript 'The need for (democratic) global government' by David Ray Griffin, annotated
-cutting 'The price of appeasement is still too high' by Anthony Lewis, International Herald Tribune 11-12 Jun 1994
-cutting 'Prophet of a fatal drift' by Peter Lennon, Guardian 31 Jan 1994
-plastic wallet containing annotated cuttings on politics 1993-1994
-cutting 'A Bleak Vision, annotated, 7 Mar 1994
-cutting 'Head of CIA calls gangsters a major global problem, International Herald Tribune, annotated, 21 Apr 1994
-photocopy published article 'The Coming Anarchy' by Robert D. Kaplan, The Atlantic Monthly, annotated, Feb 1994
-published article 'The emerging shape of environmental conflict in the 1990s' by Robin Grove-White, RSA Journal Jun 1991
-cutting 'A riskier East Asia for local of a new security order' by Gerald Segal, International Herald Tribune 8 Jul 1994
-cutting 'Greenpeace has more clout than Austria' by Hamish McRae, The Independent, annotated
-pages from The Tablet, annotated, 17 Dec 1994
-cutting 'Being multilateral means not being so unilateral' by Jim Hoagland, 13 Jun 1994
-cutting 'A Global Criminal Court', 22 Nov 1994
-cutting 'The WEU is still in limbo' May 1994
-cutting 'On the way toward a workable international system' by Butros Butros Ghali, 2 Nov 1994
-cutting 'Welcome to an exemplary pact on uses of the sea' by Alan Berlin, 17 Nov 1994
-cutting 'End U.N. Dipbaloney' by Leslie H Gelb, 1992
-cutting 'Global alliances shifting from political to economic', by Robin Wright, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar 1992
-cutting 'Memorandum to Woodrow Wilson' by Henry Grunwald, Time 14 Nov 1994
-cutting 'Leave Rwanda Alone' by Simon Jenkins, The Times, 20 Jul 1994
-cutting 'Bad precedents make for weak American thinking about war' by Jim Hoagland, International Herald Tribune, annotated, 7 Jul 1994
-cutting 'There is no world community' by William Pfaff, International herald Tribune 22 Apr 1994
-cutting 'U.N. authorizes invasion of Haiti to be led by U.S.'
-cutting 'Monroe's Doctrine takes another knock' by Eliane Sciolino
-cutting 'Iron fists: how the west was one' by Robert Fisk, The Independent, 29 Oct 1994
-cutting 'Overstretched UN to hold summit on peacekeeping', The Times, 8 Aug 1994
-published artcile 'A United Nations for the 21st century' by Nicholas Hinton, RSA Journal, May 1994
-cutting 'The U.N. obsession' by Charles Krauthammer, Time, annotated, 9 May 1994
-cutting 'In a world of bitter limitations' by Peter Pringle, 1 Jun 1994
-published article 'New world order or new world enemies?' by Michael S. Northcott, annotated
-cutting 'U.N. searches for a brave new world' by Peter Pringle, The Independent, annotated, 21 Sep 1993
-cutting 'Trouble spots within the UN' The Independent
-cutting, letters page, Time , annotated,19 Jul 1993
-cutting 'Making the world safe for crime', The New York Times Book Review, 26 Jun 1994
-cutting 'How Eastern Europe lost its illusions' by Jonathon Luxmoore, The Tablet, annotated, 19 Feb 1994
-cutting 'In the zone of peace' by Francis Fukuyama, TLS, annotated 26 Nov 1993
-cutting 'Coming in from the cold', The Sunday Times, annotated, 12 Sep 1993
-cutting 'Now that great powers are gone' by Edward N. Luttwak, annotated, 6 Jul 1994
-cutting 'Beyond the border lines' by Gerald Kaufman, The Sunday Times, 10 Jul 1994
-bundle of cuttings relating to USA, 1994
-photocopy published article 'Fighting the Hydra: mininukes in the New World Order' by G. Simon Harak, Cross Currents Spring 1994, with bundle of cuttings annotated 'nuclear war'.
-cutting 'A day of pragmatic diplomacy' by Abba Eban, International Herald 12 Sep 1994
-typescript titled 'Portrack Seminars' with list of participants
-copy handwritten fax on UCLA headed paper from Charles to attendees of the seminar, 18 Feb 1994, with bundle of photocopy cuttings
-fax from Richard Falk to Santa Monica conference participants, sending materials, with typescript for: 'A new world order that serves the human interest: a chance for success'; Introduction and first chapter of 'On Human Hovernance: A New Politics'.
-typescript fax from Charlene Spretnak to Maggie and Charles, suggesting a timetable for the forthcoming conference, 9 Mar 1994
-typescript letter from Bob Hamerton-Kelly on Stanford University headed paper (Center for International Security and Arms Control), thanking them for the weekend and giving a detailed response to religious questions.
-typescript contact details for participants in Santa Monica conference
-manuscript letter on Loyola Law School headed paper from Bob [Robert Benson] thanking them for the Portrack Seminar, 1994
-photocopy published article relating to the Benson House, California
-typescript 'Free Trade as an extremist ideology: the case of NAFTA' by Robert W. Benson, annotated, 1993
-manuscript letter from [illegible] sending contact details for Mary Kalder, 1994
-yellow lined notepad labelled 'Jencks World Government Sat Conference, Feb 25, 26, 27' [contained Charles' manuscript notes for the Santa Monica Portrack seminar
-typescript copy fax from Charlene Spretnak to Dr Vandana Shiva, Research Foundation for Science, India, inviting her to a forthcoming Portrack Seminar, Mar 1994
-typescript letter from Charlene to Maggie and Charles reflecting on the conference and making proposals for the next one, annotated, 2 Mar 1994
-Center Focus newsletter Issue 119, Jan 1994
-typescript headed 'Spretnak / 2-3' [possibly incomplete] listing political and artistic movements
-typescript letter on Center for Process Studies headed paper from David Griffin to Professor Anthony Giddens, inviting him to a Portrack conference 10 Dec 1993; attached manuscript notes listing possible invitees
-photocopy published chapter 'Megatechnology, Trade and the New World Order' by Jerry Mander from 'The Case Against Free Trade', 1993
-photocopy published article titled 'Stone, Paper, Scissors' by Charles from Marxism Today Feb 1991 [2 copies]
-photocopy cuttings annotated 'Realpolitik of spheres of power'
-handwritten [fax] on UCLA headed paper from Charles to attendees of the Santa Monica Portrack conference, 18 Feb 1994
-cutting 'Zones of peace, zones of turmoil: a new order of hope' by Max Singer, International hearld Tribune, annotated, 2 Sep 1993
-cutting 'A living things is born' by Arthur Schlesinger Jr, TLS, annotated, 21 May 1993
-cutting 'Knocking on the Clubhouse door' New York Times 10 Jan 1993
-cutting 'States of Mind' by Margot Hornblower, Time 1 Feb 1993
-cutting 'Update the united nations for a newfangled world' by Flora Lewis, International herald Tribune, annotated, 11 Jun 1995
-typescript fax from David Griffin to participants of the Santa Monica conference sending his paper, changes to scheduling due to the earthquake, and enclosing a map; enclosed pencil hand-drawn map and faxed copy
-typescript 'Project Proposal: towards the new world dis-order: post-soviet contribution to a new version of The Brave New World' by George Khutsishvili, with attached business card
-bundle of cuttings annotated 'Realpolitik of spheres of power'
-photocopy published chapter 'Megatechnology, Trade and the New World Order' by Jerry Mander from 'The Case Against Free Trade', 1993
-cutting 'Shape of a new world disorder'
[Loose documents]
-CJA-RES-AL-B13-1-19 · File · 1966-2017
Part of Charles Jencks Archive

Bundle of documents found loose on the shelf. Includes:
-Fax from Penguin UK to Charles confirming the number of copies sold of Modern Movements in Architecture and the process for the reversion of rights and re-publishing, 2000

-Plastic wallet containing: stapled typescript titled ‘The Semiotics of Architecture (outline of a course for 1974-1975 by Charles Jencks)’; typescript diagram with drawing titled ‘Semantic Analysis of Olivetti Training Centre Wing’; off-print of ‘A Semantic Analysis of Stirling’s Olivetti Centre Wing’ by Charles; cuttings from Forum Sep 1970 ‘Student Dorms on a Scottish Coast – Charles Jencks offers a semiological analysis’; stapled typescript titled ‘The Semiotics of Architecture (outline of a book by Charles Jencks)’, annotated; manuscript notes headed ‘Semiotics Architecture’; manuscript notes headed ‘Codes of Architecture’; printed list of forthcoming lecture series organised by Charles, taken from an unidentified publication, annotated [possibly AA]; cuttings from an unidentified publication titled ‘The Language of Architecture’ by Charles; typescript bibliography for a course titled ‘The Language of Modern Architecture’ by Charles; typescript titled ‘The Language of Modern Architecture’; ‘Language and Class’ by Paul Medlicott from New Society 5 Jun 1975; ‘The semantics of semiotics’ by Peter Wason and Ormond Uren’ from New Society 26 Dec 1975, annotated; 'The Culinary Triangle' by Claude Lévi-Strauss, New Society 22 Dec 1966, annotated with diagrams; TLS 5 Oct 1973, annotated on pieces by Umberto Eco, Thomas Sebeok, Tullio de Mauro, Tzvetan Todorov, Juri Lotman, Stepehn Ullman, Julia Kirsteva, Max Bense, post-it note attached with appointments and telephone numbers; 'Rhetorik und Architektur' by Charles, translated by Paul Kretz, publication not identified.

-fax from Grigor Films with an overview of a potential Channel 4 tv series titled '10 Buildings which changed the world', 2001
-manuscript notes headed 'Pioneers of Modern Movement 1936'
-photocopy from Meaning In Architecture, 1969
-printed-out email from Jos Bosman asking for feedback on his essay 'Reading Meaning in Architecture', annotated, nd
-invitation to the funeral service for Alan Colquhoun, 2012
-printed-out email from Charles to Sylvia Lavin, detailing his background in semiotics ahead of an interview, 2017
-cutting titled 'Hypertext', New Scientist 17 Jun 2006
-printed-out email from Joseph Bedford requesting a phone call relating to Rykwert and Dalibor, nd
-booklet for the Open University course 'Our Conversation with Things and Places', inscribed 1976; inserted: covering letter from Professor Christopher Cornford thanking Charles for dinner.
-photocopied review of Modern Movements in Architecture in The Architects' Journal 26 Mar 1986, Penguin Books clipping service
-correspondence from Penguin Books relating to translations, cover artwork, new editions of Modern Movements in Architecture 1984-1985; letter from Charles regarding errors and corrections
-correspondence from Doubleday regarding Modern Movements in Architecture, including new editions and reversion of rights 1984-1985
-typescript titled' White Paper: The Redevelopment of 390 Park Avenue for Fisher Brothers' with a covering letter from C. Ray Smith requesting a response from Charles in the next issue of Oculus, the monthly newsletter of the New York Chapter of the A.I.A, as Charles has been quoted as a witness in the White Paper; manuscript notes headed 'dictated on phone January 3, 1983' in response.

The Story of Utopias
-CJA-RES-AL-B21-1-14 · Item · 1969
Part of Charles Jencks Archive

Publisher: The Viking Press

Inserted:
-cutting 'Ways of Living Together' review by Iain Bordenof The Architectural and Social History of Co-operative Living by Lynn Pearson, Building Design 9 Sep 1988, annotated
-cutting 'The pyramid and its powers' review by Samuel Y. Edgerton jr of Leonardo da Vinci's Elements of the Science of Man by Kenneth D. Keele, TLS 13 Jul 1984, annotated
-manuscript notes headed 'Utopia'

Mumford, Lewis
David Roberts
-CJA-RES-EN-1-3-1 · Item · 1986
Part of Charles Jencks Archive

Catalogue for an exhibition at the Barbican Art Gallery 6 Nov 1987-4 Jan 1987.

Publisher: Phaidon Art Press

Inserted:
-cutting 'A yearning for the mysterious' review of the exhibition by Malcolm Warner, TLS 21 Nov 1986

Barbican Centre
[Loose papers]
CJA-PTK-20 · File
Part of Charles Jencks Archive
Material found loose and grouped together. Includes:
-stapled photocopy from ['Platitudes' by Trey Ellis] [staple removed for conservation reasons]
-manuscript list of attendees at the Portrack Seminar 13-17 July 1992
-offprint of 'Post-Modern Architecture and Time Fusion' by Charles published in 'International Postmodernism: theory and literary practice' (1997)
- manuscript letter from Charlene Spretnak on personal headed paper to Charles and Hans Bertens on the emerging field of 'Ecological literary criticism' (also: Eco Lit crit and Green cultural studies) in relation to the next Portrack Seminar, with a post-it note from Charlene telling Charles to put this letter in his Portrack file and send a copy on to Hans if relevant.
-cutting from The Times 15 Apr 2008, David Aaronovitch on Richard Falk's role as investigator for the UN Human Rights Council titled 'This is a UN "expert". I'd prefer "conspiracy crank"'.
-cutting titled 'In this postmodern world, what religious thinker may need if a scholarly new postcolonial posting' by Peter Steinfelks [New York Times]
-cutting titled 'Sheltered Lives and Public Postures' by Thomas Nagel, review of Richard A. Posner's Public Intellectuals, TLS 25 Jan 2002
-cutting titled 'Primary school teaches meaning of life' from The Times 25 Sep 2001
-cutting titled 'What is it about lemons?' by Thomas Nagel, review of 'The Quest for Reality' by Barry Stroud, London Review of Books, 20 Sep 2001, annotated
-typescript letter from Graham Dawes thanking Charles for arranging to have his handwritten notes sent to him, which enabled him gain an 'Impressionistic sense of the conference', and commenting on the work of Lakoff and Johnson, 2001
Post-Mod
CJA-PTK-8 · File · 1995-1997
Part of Charles Jencks Archive
Folder for the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg annotated 'Post-Mod' and 'Invitation 23 Nov'. Includes:
-typescript document titlerd 'Reconsidering Post-Modernism: Portrack Seminar [crossed out] or May 17-19 or June 28-30 with a list of potential participants, annotated
-typescript letter from Douwe Fokkema on Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek headed paper, sending condolences to Charles after Maggie's death and inviting him to read a paper at a forthcoming symposium titled "Postmodernity and Postmodernism', 1996
-typescript letter from Hans Bertens on Universiteit Utrecht headed paper, discussing his contribution to the Portrack seminar and his religious viewpoint, 1997, annotated with Charles' draft reply
-typescript letter from Douwe Fokkema on Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek headed paper, co-ordinating the publication of papers from the symposium in the European Review, 1997, annotated with draft reply; attached letter from Arnold Burgen on European Review headed paper requesting the articles, 1997
-manuscript letter from Douwe Fokkema discussing the European Review, 1997
-manuscript notes, some on the reverse of a timetable for the Academia Europaea 1997 Annual general Meeting, headings include 'Hans', 'Mihály Szegedy-Maszák' and 'Flotzinger'
-photocopy from a publication titled 'Lost Goddesses of Early Greece', annotated 'Research into the myth of Hera: re Olympic Games'
-typescript letter from Hans Bertens to Charles, on Universiteit Utrecht headed paper, making arrangements to meet, 1997
-manuscript letter from Ihan Hassan to Charles on personal headed paper enclosing typescript titled 'The Expense of Spirit in Postmodern Times: Between Nihilism and Belief', 1997
-manuscript fax from Ihab Hassan to Charles agreeing to Charles' topics 'for our little transcontinental chat', 1997
-typescript fax from Umberto Eco's secretary to Charles informing him that Eco is out of the country, 1997
-manuscript fax from Charles to Ihab Hassan with a list of topics he'd like to discuss during a telephone interview, 1997
-manuscript letter from Ihab Hassan to Charles on personal headed paper, enclosing the text of the talk he gave at the ICA which is to be published in Hungarian; enclosed typescript titled 'Postmodern Revisited: a personal account'
-brochure for 'Reconsidering the Postmodern' conference at the ICA, 18 & 19 May 1996; inserted typescript document titled 'Reconstructive Post-Modernism', two copies, one annotated
-postcard advertising a lecture by the architects of RMIT titled 'Re-inventing Storey Hall'
-typescript letter from Hans Bertens to Charles on Universiteit Utrecht headed paper inquiring about the Ghent symposium, 1997, annotated with draft reply
-typescript letter from Academia Europaea inviting Charles to present a lecture during the Postmodernity and Postmodernism seminar with details of lecture length and travel arrangements, 1997
-typescript fax from Charlene Spretnak to Charles, David and Richard discussing a new Library of Congress subject headings for postmodernism, 1997
-fax copy from 'The Culture of Denial' by Chet Bowers discussing David Ray Griffin, Charles Jencks and Charlene Spretnak as a separate tendency in postmodernism, 1996
-typescript letter from Margaret Rose to Charles giving a detail response to What is Post-Modernism 4th edition, 1997
-manuscript fax from Charles to Charlene Spretnak, responding to her fax on the Library of Congress, 1997
-business card from Indra K. Ramanathan, Design Nexus Architect, Malaysia
-fax typescript list of participants in the Portrack Seminar 'Confrontations and Synergies: the Culture Interplay of the Indigenous, the Traditional, the Modern and the Post-Modern' with biographies
-manuscript letter from [Charlene Spretnak] enclosing a copy of her published 'Embodied, Embedded Philosophy' to be circulated to participants at the next seminar
-review of Anthony Giddens' 'Modernity and Self-Identity' by Alan Ryan from the TLS 10 Jan 1992, annotated
-review of Anthony Giddens' The Consequences of Modernity' by Richard Sennett from the TLS 8 Feb 1991, annotated
-typescript fax from Richard Falk to Charles confirming participants for the next seminar [Portrack Seminar 8]
-manuscript fax from Charles to Charlene making arrangements for the seminar
-typescript letter from David Griffin on School of Theology at Claremont headed paper to Charles, Charlene and Richard discussing the proposals for a conference on Reconsidering Postmodernism, 1995
-typescript fax from Charles to Richard Falk, David Ray Griffin and Charlene Spretnak updating them on plans for The Post-Modern Reconsidered at the ICA, 1995
-typescript fax from Richard Falk to Charles, mentioning his recent travels and particularly the influence of post-modernism on Tokyo, 1995, annotated with draft reply
-handout from Siobhán Hapaska's exhibition 'Saint Christopher's Legless' [at the ICA]
-manuscript [fax] from Charles to Richard Falk, discussing the Portrack seminars and his recent work and reading, 1995
-typescript fax from Richard Falk to Charles thanking him for the Portrack semimnar, 1995
-manuscript fax list of names, annotated
-typescript fax from Charlene Spretnak to Richard Falk, cc Charles discussing themes, participants, dates and logistics for the forthcoming seminar [Portrack Seminar 8], 1995
-typescript fax from Richard Falk to Charles, cc Charlene Spretnak, suggesting title, dates and participants for the next seminar [Portrack Seminar 8], 1995, annotated
-fax typescript and annotated list of Portrack seminar [8] participants and the rooms they've been assigned, annotated
[Loose documents]
CJA-RES-AL-B12-1-3 · File · 1972-2019
Part of Charles Jencks Archive
Bundle of documents found loose on the shelf. Includes:
-off-print of'A Semantic Analysis of Stirling's Olivetti Centre Wing' by Charles, annotated AAQ Spring 1974
-off-print of 'Rhetoric and Architecture' by Charles, annotated AAQ Summer 1972, presented at Semiotics Conference March 1972
-stapled bundle of cuttings by Tom Wilkinson
-cutting titled 'Architectural Tragedies' by Martin Filler from The New York Review
-brochure for the 'Reconsidering Postmodernism' conference organised by the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art, 2011
-photocopied cuttings on open plan offices
-cutting on Ralph Erskine from Building Design, 2013
-cutting of book reviews from TLS, 2014
-review from the FT Weekend of two books about capitalism, 2019