foreword by Paul Virilio In this series of overlapping essays on architecture and art, John Rajchman attempts to do theory in a new way that takes off from the philosophy of the late Gilles Deleuze. Starting from notions of folding, lightness, ground, abstraction, and future cities, he embarks on a conceptual voyage whose aim is to help "construct" a new space of connections, to "build" a new idiom, perhaps even to suggest a new architecture. Along the way, he addresses questions of the new abstraction, operative form, other geometries, new technologies, global cities, ideas of the virtual...
foreword by Paul Virilio In this series of overlapping essays on architecture and art, John Rajchman attempts to do theory in a new way that takes ...
Virilio himself referred to his 1980 work The Aesthetics of Disappearance as a -juncture- in his thinking, one at which he brought his focus onto the logistics of perception -- a logistics he would soon come to refer to as the -vision machine.- If Speed and Politics established Virilio as the inaugural -- and still consummate -- theorist of -dromology- (the theory of speed and the society it defines), The Aesthetics of Disappearance introduced his understanding of -picnolepsy- -- the epileptic state of consciousness produced by speed, or rather, the consciousness invented by the subject...
Virilio himself referred to his 1980 work The Aesthetics of Disappearance as a -juncture- in his thinking, one at which he brought his focus onto t...
Here as Virilio states, "all one can do is guess." But Virilio's position is not one of pure guessery. His extrapolationist position against his delirium state, has the architecture of a 23rd century scientist: three parts - fractal geometry, two parts - theory of general relativity, one part - Philip K. Dick. One must step back and stare down the medusa of progress with a mirror. This is Virilio's call for a grey ecology.
Here as Virilio states, "all one can do is guess." But Virilio's position is not one of pure guessery. His extrapolationist position against his delir...
We are living under the administration of fear: fear has become an environment, an everyday landscape. There was a time when wars, famines, and epidemics were localized and limited by a certain timeframe. Today, it is the world itself that is limited, saturated, and manipulated, the world itself that seizes us and confines us with a stressful claustrophobia. Stock-market crises, undifferentiated terrorism, lightning pandemics, -professional- suicides.... Fear has become the world we live in.
The administration of fear also means that states are tempted to create policies for the...
We are living under the administration of fear: fear has become an environment, an everyday landscape. There was a time when wars, famines, and epi...
