From Epiphylogenesis to General Organology

Introduction to “The Epiphylogenetic Turn and Architecture: In (Tertiary) Memory of Bernard Stiegler”, Footprint 30

Journal article (2022)

Authors

R.A. Gorny Situated Architecture - Architecture and the Built Environment
A. Radman Theory, Territories & Transitions - Architecture and the Built Environment
Research Group
Situated Architecture (Architecture and the Built Environment) (TU Delft)
Copyright: © 2022 R.A. Gorny, A. Radman
DOI
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https://doi.org/10.7480/footprint.16.1.6291
Philosophy of technology Architecture theory Epiphylogenesis General Organology Stiegler
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Published Date

2022

Language

English

Faculty

Architecture and the Built Environment

Department

Architecture

Research Group

Situated Architecture

Abstract

The work of Bernard Stiegler (1952–2020) provides invaluable material for rethinking the built environment as a sort of inorganic spatial memory that enables the evolution of life by means other than organic life. Following Stiegler’s theoretical turn toward epiphylogenetic processes, Footprint 30 is devoted to revisiting the built environment as middling between individuating technical ensembles and niche construction processes. It offers a platform to the transdisciplinary field of posthuman scholarship dealing with existential niches from a technological angle and the concomitant architectural thought that advances such speculative recasting.