innovation and creativity in Post-Fordist Capitalism

There is no point to expand on the whole critique that Shaviro develops for Boutang's latest book Le Capitalisme cognitif, But I would like to focus on a very crucial point that Shaviro makes clear in his text: "we shouldn't buy uncritically on the current capitalist mythology of "innovation" and "creativity"- without thinking through what it might mean to detach these notions from their association with start-ups and marketing plans and advertising campaigns (and how this might be done)". Shaviro will bring into the discourse the work by Whitehead and Deleuze which I also find very important in order to re-conceptualize innovation and creativity.

biopolitics in space

I have to agree more than anything else with Christopher Hight when he points out that:

"Architects have not worked through the implications of such Post-Frodist social organizations constructed through biopolitical operations rather than humanist representations. to so so engage such territories requires architects and urbanists to renovate their understanding of spatial complexity and heterogeneity."

Christopher Hight in Space Reader: Heterogeneous space in Architecture, 2009 p. 27

building as a thing

the dinstinction between "object and thing" was at the core of the lecture hosted at the Sociology deperatment of Goldsmith's college where a diverse audience of architects, designers and Social Scientists where gathered to follow an ANT methodological approach to Rem Koolhaas' design process. I didn't get exactly the arguments cause all of them where so obvious... I suppose for the social scientists and the ethnographers to understand the process of an architectural project was some kind of revealing... Yes, I will agree with the distinction between the object and the thing, between a symbolic understanding of a build project and its understanding as a multiplicity but however as an Architect I would expect to see such a distinction in the way occupants inhabit spaces. I had my conclusions and I have to admit this kind of "synergies" between different fileds could only be constructive.

oh! and it is something else... the really annoying fascination of Architects with the trendiness... they feel guilty if they use words that somehow have been used before and mark a theoretical exploration in architectural design... and this is happening due to the fact that architects approach theory in a fragmented fashion and not as a continuous transformation of concepts and ideas...