Contagious architecture : computation, aesthetics, and space / Luciana Parisi.

Main entry:

Parisi, Luciana.

Title & Author:

Contagious architecture : computation, aesthetics, and space / Luciana Parisi.

Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts l ; London, England : The MIT Press, [2013]

Description:

xx, 370 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series:

Technologies of lived abstraction

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-351) and index.
Incomputable objects in the age of the algorithm -- Soft extension : topological ocntrol and mereotopological space events -- Architectures of thought.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

In Contagious Architecture, Luciana Parisi offers a philosophical inquiry into the status of the algorithm in architectural and interaction design. Her thesis is that algorithmic computation is not simply an abstract mathematical tool but constitutes a mode of thought in its own right, in that its operation extends into forms of abstraction that lie beyond direct human cognition and control. These include modes of infinity, contingency, and indeterminacy, as well as incomputable quantities underlying the iterative process of algorithmic processing. The main philosophical source for the project is Alfred North Whitehead, whose process philosophy is specifically designed to provide a vocabulary for "modes of thought" exhibiting various degrees of autonomy from human agency even as they are mobilized by it. Because algorithmic processing lies at the heart of the design practices now reshaping our world -- from the physical spaces of our built environment to the networked spaces of digital culture -- the nature of algorithmic thought is a topic of pressing importance that reraises questions of control and, ultimately, power. Contagious Architecture revisits cybernetic theories of control and information theory's notion of the incomputable in light of this rethinking of the role of algorithmic thought. Informed by recent debates in political and cultural theory around the changing landscape of power, it links the nature of abstraction to a new theory of power adequate to the complexities of the digital world.

Resources:
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ISBN:

9780262018630 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0262018632 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780262312608
0262312611
9780262312615

Subject:

Space (Architecture)
Architecture Philosophy.
Espace (Architecture)
Algorithms
Architectural design Data processing Philosophy

Added entries:

Technologies of lived abstraction.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 282624
Call No.: BIB 220310
Status: Available

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