Contagious Architecture

Author : Luciana Parisi
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780262546652

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A proposal that algorithms are not simply instructions to be performed but thinking entities that construct digital spatio-temporalities. In Contagious Architecture, Luciana Parisi offers a philosophical inquiry into the status of the algorithm in architectural and interaction design. Her thesis is that algorithmic computation is not simply an abstract mathematical tool but constitutes a mode of thought in its own right, in that its operation extends into forms of abstraction that lie beyond direct human cognition and control. These include modes of infinity, contingency, and indeterminacy, as well as incomputable quantities underlying the iterative process of algorithmic processing. The main philosophical source for the project is Alfred North Whitehead, whose process philosophy is specifically designed to provide a vocabulary for “modes of thought” exhibiting various degrees of autonomy from human agency even as they are mobilized by it. Because algorithmic processing lies at the heart of the design practices now reshaping our world—from the physical spaces of our built environment to the networked spaces of digital culture—the nature of algorithmic thought is a topic of pressing importance that reraises questions of control and, ultimately, power. Contagious Architecture revisits cybernetic theories of control and information theory's notion of the incomputable in light of this rethinking of the role of algorithmic thought. Informed by recent debates in political and cultural theory around the changing landscape of power, it links the nature of abstraction to a new theory of power adequate to the complexities of the digital world.

Author : Luciana Parisi
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780262312622

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Contagious Architecture by Luciana Parisi Pdf

A proposal that algorithms are not simply instructions to be performed but thinking entities that construct digital spatio-temporalities. In Contagious Architecture, Luciana Parisi offers a philosophical inquiry into the status of the algorithm in architectural and interaction design. Her thesis is that algorithmic computation is not simply an abstract mathematical tool but constitutes a mode of thought in its own right, in that its operation extends into forms of abstraction that lie beyond direct human cognition and control. These include modes of infinity, contingency, and indeterminacy, as well as incomputable quantities underlying the iterative process of algorithmic processing. The main philosophical source for the project is Alfred North Whitehead, whose process philosophy is specifically designed to provide a vocabulary for “modes of thought” exhibiting various degrees of autonomy from human agency even as they are mobilized by it. Because algorithmic processing lies at the heart of the design practices now reshaping our world—from the physical spaces of our built environment to the networked spaces of digital culture—the nature of algorithmic thought is a topic of pressing importance that reraises questions of control and, ultimately, power. Contagious Architecture revisits cybernetic theories of control and information theory's notion of the incomputable in light of this rethinking of the role of algorithmic thought. Informed by recent debates in political and cultural theory around the changing landscape of power, it links the nature of abstraction to a new theory of power adequate to the complexities of the digital world.

Author : D'Uva, Domenico
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781522539940

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Handbook of Research on Form and Morphogenesis in Modern Architectural Contexts by D'Uva, Domenico Pdf

As architectural designs continue to push boundaries, there is more exploration into the bound shape of architecture within the limits of spaces made for human usability and interaction. The Handbook of Research on Form and Morphogenesis in Modern Architectural Contexts provides emerging research on the process of architectural form-finding as an effort to balance perceptive efficiency with functionality. While highlighting topics such as architectural geometry, reverse modeling, and digital fabrication, this book details the geometric process that forms the shape of a building. This publication is a vital resource for scholars, IT professionals, engineers, architects, and business managers seeking current research on the development and creation of architectural design.

Author : Bredella, Nathalie,Dähne, Chris,Lausch, Frederike
Publisher : Universitätsverlag der TU Berlin
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783798332706

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Utopia Computer. The “New” in Architecture? by Bredella, Nathalie,Dähne, Chris,Lausch, Frederike Pdf

The critical concern of the book “Utopia Computer” is the euphoria, expectation and hope inspired by the introduction of computers within architecture in the early digital age. With the advent of the personal computer and the launch of the Internet in the 1990s, utopian ideals found in architectural discourse from the 1960s were revisited and adjusted to the specific characteristics of digital media. Taking the 1990s discourse on computation as a starting point, the contributions of this book grapple with the utopian promises associated with topics such as participation, self-organization, and non-standard architecture. By placing these topics in a historical framework, the book offers perspectives for the future role computation might play within architecture and society. Die Publikation „Utopie Computer“ thematisiert die Euphorie und die Erwartungen, die mit der Einführung des Computers in der Architektur im frühen digitalen Zeitalter verbunden sind. Mit dem Aufkommen des Personal Computers und der kommerziellen Nutzung des Internets in den 1990er Jahren werden utopische Ideen, die bereits den Architekturdiskurs der 1960er Jahre prägten, aufgegriffen und an die spezifischen Möglichkeiten der digitalen Medien angepasst. Ausgehend vom Diskurs eines computer-basierten Entwerfens der 1990er Jahre setzen sich die Beiträge dieses Buches mit Entwurfskonzepten der Nachkriegszeit auseinander. Es werden Themen wie Partizipation, Selbstorganisation oder Non-Standard-Architektur in einen historischen Kontext gesetzt und Perspektiven für die zukünftige Rolle des Computers in der Architektur und Gesellschaft entwickelt.

Author : Andrea Borsari,Annalisa Trentin,Pierpaolo Ascari
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-16
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783031366673

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TEMPORARY: Citizenship, Architecture and City by Andrea Borsari,Annalisa Trentin,Pierpaolo Ascari Pdf

This book offers a comprehensive overview of forces shaping urban renewal and the sustainable and inclusive transformation of contemporary cities. It discusses temporariness and uncertainty of citizenship, participation, and inclusion, as well as the energy and digital transformation, merging different perspectives, such as the social, philosophical, economic, and architectural ones. Based on revised and extended contributions to the International Congress “TEMPORARY: Citizenship, Architecture and City", held virtually on November 20-21, 2022, from the University of Bologna, this book offers extensive information and a thought-provoking reading to researchers in architecture, anthropology, social and environmental policy, as well as to professionals and policy makers involved in planning the city of the future.

Author : Constantin V. Boundas,Vana Tentokali
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781786605993

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Architectural and Urban Reflections after Deleuze and Guattari by Constantin V. Boundas,Vana Tentokali Pdf

The post humanist movement which currently traverses various disciplines in the arts and humanities, as well as the role that the thought of Deleuze and Guattari has had in the course of this movement, has given rise to new practices in architecture and urban theory. This interdisciplinary volume brings together architects, urban designers and planners, and asks them to reflect and report on the (built) place and the city to come in the wake of Deleuze and Guattari.

Author : Macs Smith
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780262362559

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Paris and the Parasite by Macs Smith Pdf

The social consequences of anti-parasitic urbanism, as efforts to expunge supposedly biological parasites penalize those viewed as social parasites. According to French philosopher Michel Serres, ordered systems are founded on the pathologization of parasites, which can never be fully expelled. In Paris and the Parasite, Macs Smith extends Serres's approach to Paris as a mediatic city, asking what organisms, people, and forms of interference constitute its parasites. Drawing on French poststructuralist theory and philosophy, media theory, the philosophy of science, and an array of literary and cultural sources, he examines Paris and its parasites from the early nineteenth century to today, focusing on the contemporary city. In so doing, he reveals the social consequences of anti-parasitic urbanism.

Author : Cameron Cartiere,Leon Tan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780429833809

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The Routledge Companion to Art in the Public Realm by Cameron Cartiere,Leon Tan Pdf

This multidisciplinary companion offers a comprehensive overview of the global arena of public art. It is organised around four distinct topics: activation, social justice, memory and identity, and ecology, with a final chapter mapping significant works of public and social practice art around the world between 2008 and 2018. The thematic approach brings into view similarities and differences in the recent globalisation of public art practices, while the multidisciplinary emphasis allows for a consideration of the complex outcomes and consequences of such practices, as they engage different disciplines and communities and affect a diversity of audiences beyond the existing 'art world'. The book will highlight an international selection of artist projects that illustrate the themes. This book will be of interest to scholars in contemporary art, art history, urban studies, and museum studies.

Author : Tiziana Terranova
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781635901689

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After the Internet by Tiziana Terranova Pdf

On the internet's transformation from communication tool to computational infrastructure. The internet is no more. If it still exists, it does so only as a residual technology, still effective in the present but less intelligible as such. After nearly two decades and a couple of financial crises, it has become the almost imperceptible background of today’s Corporate Platform Complex (CPC)—a pervasive planetary technological infrastructure that meshes communication with computation. In the essays collected in this book, written mostly between the mid-2000s and the late 2010s, Tiziana Terranova bears witness to this monstrous transformation. Mobilizing theories of cognitive capitalism, neo-monadology, and sympathetic cooperation, considering ideas such as the attention economy and its psychopathologies, and evoking the relation between algorithmic automation and the Common, she provides real-time takes on the mutations that have changed the technological, cultural, and economic ethos of the Internet. Mostly conceived, elaborated, and discussed in collective activist spaces, After the Internet is neither apocalyptic lamentation nor melancholic “rise and fall” story of betrayed great expectations. On the contrary, it looks within the folds of the recent past to unfold the potential futurities that the post-digital computational present still entails.

Author : Giovanni Corbellini
Publisher : LetteraVentidue Edizioni
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-18
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9788862427548

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exlibris by Giovanni Corbellini Pdf

Architects write a lot, especially now when conceptual aspects have become central in the advanced reflections and narrative forms increasingly intersect the quest of design practices far an ultimate legitimation. In the growing mass of the publishing offer, these keywords try to highlight recurrent issues, tracking synthetic paths of orientation between different critical positions, with particular attention to what happens in the neighbouring fields of the arts and sciences.

Author : jan jagodzinski
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031547836

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Pedagogical Encounters in the Post-Anthropocene, Volume 2 by jan jagodzinski Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1825
Category : Medicine
ISBN : UIUC:30112123321876

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The Lancet by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 898 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1826
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10054710

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The Lancet London by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jamie Brassett,John O'Reilly
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000376081

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A Creative Philosophy of Anticipation by Jamie Brassett,John O'Reilly Pdf

This edited collection highlights the valuable ontological and creative insights gathered from anticipation studies, which orients itself to the future in order to recreate the present. The gathered essays engage with many writers from speculative metaphysics to poetic philosophy, ancient writing systems to the fringes of pataphysics. The book situates itself as a creative intervention in and with various thinkers, designers, artists, scientists and poets to offer insight into ways of anticipating. It brings together philosophical practices for which creativity is both a fundamental area of consideration and a mode of working, a characterization of recent Continental Philosophy which takes a departure from traditional futures studies thinking. This book will be of interest to scholars and research in futures studies, anticipation, philosophy, creative practice and theories about creative practice, as well as the intersections between philosophy, creativity and business.

Author : Hélène Frichot
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-13
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781350036543

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Creative Ecologies by Hélène Frichot Pdf

Architect and philosopher Hélène Frichot examines how the discipline of architecture is theorized and practiced at the periphery. Eschewing a conventionally direct approach to architectural objects – to iconic buildings and big-name architects – she instead explores the background of architectural practice, to introduce the creative ecologies in which architecture exists only in relation to other objects and ideas. Consisting of a series of philosophical encounters with architectural practice that are neither neatly located in one domain nor the other, this book is concerned with 'other ways of doing architecture'. It examines architecture at the limits where it is muddied by alternative disciplinary influences – whether art practice, philosophy or literature. Frichot meets a range of creative characters who work at the peripheries, and who challenge the central assumptions of the discipline, showing that there is no 'core of architecture' – there is rather architecture as a multiplicity of diverse concerns in engagement with local environments and worlds. From an author well-known in the disciplines of architecture and philosophy for her scholarship on Deleuze, this is a radical, accessible, and highly-original approach to design research, deftly engaging with an array of current topics from the Anthropocene to affect theory, new materialism contemporary feminism.