Introduction: Socio-Techno-Environmental Entanglements

Our present condition urges those critically and creatively engaged with it, to address the transformative potentials that are brought about by a highly intertwined triad of changes. As the posthuman philosopher Rosi Braidotti notes, these three changes can no longer be addressed in isolation or in the context of singular disciplines. At an...

Annotate This!: Semiotization, Automation and the Recursive Causality of Images

It is common enough question: What is the human? Sure enough, it is also a question that has troubled some of the greatest minds to walk this planet. Nevertheless, one might wonder, is it really a good question in its own right? To show our allegiances from the outset, we categorically declare it an extremely bad question – in the sense of being...

How to Fold Uncanny Valleys into Habitable Mountains

The chapter is devoted to an ecological work of art; the proof that senses, inventions and worlds are not to be considered in isolation. It examines the process of folding an ‘uncanny valley’ into an ‘inhabitable mountain’ across seven points. First: Amor fati, the Nietzschean call to be worthy of what happens to us. Second: Decoding and...

Pings and Hups

Etymologically unattested yet artistically long praised, there is a profound relation between life and light; next to both, the almost self-evident (and scientifically undisputed) relation between light and flow, lux and flux. Would it be correct then to understand life as an issue of perception and manipulation of flows? Surprisingly, this is a...

Deep Architecture: An Ecology of Hetero-Affection

In this chapter I explore the legacy of the American psychologist James Jerome Gibson, whose concept of affordance continues to stir controversy even among the scholars of the Ecological School of Perception. Gibson was well aware of the difficulties in challenging the orthodoxies that he himself admitted to have contributed to. His neologism,...

Involutionary Architecture: Unyoking Coherence from Congruence

By focusing on the qualities of a posthumanist architectural practice in<br/>his chapter 4, Andrej Radman continues the analysis of the genetic power of<br/>affective encounters begun by Iris van der Tuin in her opening chapter, and by<br/>Jussi Parikka in his geophilosophical analysis of the emergent consequences<br/>of constitutive relations...

Double Bind: On Material Ethics

Sensibility is ground zero

Somaesthetics: "Bouwkunde reloaded" DSD MSc graduation studio

The asignyfing affordance of assemblage: A heuristic of the energetics of the exteriority of relations