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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Parisi, Luciana.

Series:

Technologies of lived abstraction

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Space (Architecture).

Architecture--Philosophy.

Architecture.

Physical Description:

xx, 370 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

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

Contents:

1 Incomputable Objects in the Age of the Algorithm 1

1.0 Metamodeling 1

1.0.1 Programming the living 10

1.0.2 Random probabilities 14

1.0.3 Anticipatory architecture 19

1.1 Background media 26

1.2 Metadigital fallacy 36

1.3 Discrete objects 43

1.3.1 Unity and relation 47

1.3.2 Qualities and quantities 50

1.3.3 Form and process 55

1.4 Algorithmic aesthetics 66

1.5 Speculative reason 71

2 Soft Extension: Topological Control and Mereotopological Space Events 83

2.0 The invariant function 83

2.1 Folds or differential relations 96

2.2 Parametricism or deep relationality 102

2.3 Soft temporalities 107

2.4 Extension is what extension doesn't 110

2.5 Blind spots: space events 117

2.6 Mereotopology of extension 123

2.7 Mereotopology of abstraction 128

2.8 Parametric prehensions 135

2.8.1 Scripting uncertainties 140

2.8.2 Une architecture des humeurs 144

2.9 Extensive novelties 158

3 Architectures of Thought 169

3.0 Soft thought 169

3.0.1 Neuroarchitecture 177

3.0.2 Enactive architecture 180

3.0.3 Negative prehension 185

3.1 Cybernetic thought 193

3.2 Ecological thought 200

3.3 Interactive thought 204

3.4 Technoembodied mind 211

3.5 Mindware and wetware 219

3.6 Synaptic space 224

3.7 Transitive computation 234

3.8 Thought event 242

3.9 Soft thought II 249.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-351) and index.

ISBN:

9780262018630

0262018632

OCLC:

799025196