January 2011
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“While architects speak of designing space that satisfies human needs, it is...”
– Architect Lebbeus Woods on anarchitecture and freespaces in The Architecture of Information: Open Source Software and Tactica; Poststructuralist Anarchism by Michael Truscello
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If You Build It, They Will Come: Architecture and...
Excerpt fromMichael Truscello’s The Architecture of Information: Open Source Software and Tactical Poststructuralist Anarchism
4. Architect Lebbeus Woods, whose “anarchitecture” attempts to create “freespaces” through indeterminate structures, identifies the relationship between architecture and ideology: “While architects speak of designing space that...
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a LOVELY transhumanist take on cities for cyborgs...
I believe that we’ve always been cyborgs just as much as we’ve always been humans. Yet, computers are often seen as the sina qua non of a cyborg reality. But if we expand the definition of cyborgs beyond a trans-human being with electronic parts, then we can see how we’ve always out-sourced information processing to organic and inorganic things. In this way, the long lineage of...