Wer ist in? Wer ist out?
Originally by Serge Gainsbourg (“Qui est in?”), this is the Stereo Total version which I like better because it’s raunchier sounding. I post it because I’m sitting in my Systems and their Theories...
View Article“Play is a form of order” and the dimension of the trace
For a year, I’ve had this on an electronic sticky on my Mac desktop: With the trace <Spur>, a new dimension accrues to “immediate experience.” It is no longer tied to the expectation of...
View ArticleDissertation proposal! Artificial Intelligence, Architectural Intelligence:...
UPDATE: My dissertation proposal. I’ve completed my dissertation proposal! My dissertation is tentatively titled “Artificial Intelligence, Architectural Intelligence: The Computer in Architecture,...
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The future in the past and past futures
In June, I spent several days in Nicholas Negroponte’s personal archive from the Architecture Machine Group era up to the founding of the MIT Media Lab — working my way through hundreds of documents...
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A network of constant interactions and communications
[This post is a part of a month of Cyborgs, a project started by Quiet Babylon's Tim Maly. It's the first of two.] To get to cyborgs, we need to start with cybernetics. Norbert Wiener. Image source:...
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Misfits and architecture machines
A few days ago, I wrote about some basics of cybernetics, concluding with a snippet from Gordon Pask’s “The Architectural Relevance of Cybernetics. “Let us turn the design paradigm in upon itself,” he...
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