the autism of autopoietic architecture.

The fascination of the interiority of the discipline of architecture and the constant attempt either to demarcate its boundaries or to penetrate them and to push them further, might seem not adequate as a response to the challenges of today. We have had invested spontaneity and self-organisation with enough faith to excuse our blind experimentations and vague attempts to redefine architecture, architects and the bodies that inhabit it. Above the state of affairs there are Events that supervene them. A dark precursor will momentarily 'decide' at the same paradoxical time that the effects of that decision will wash 'him' out. Deleuze and Whitehead speculated about this stange entity with the incorporeal capacity to decide. Both approached philosophy from the process side. The first via the transcendent empiricism and immanent materialism while the second one through a formal axiomatic ontology. Both though were aimed to construct a complementary to each other ontology for the subject of the new science.

Biology and Sex

‘Sex in the biological sense has nothing to do with copulation; neither is it intrinsically related to reproduction or gender. Sex is a genetic mixing in organisms that operates at a variety of levels; it occurs in some organisms at more than one level simultaneously’. (Slanted Truths, p.285).

Marguilis, L., Sagan, D.(1997) Slanted Truths: Essay on Gaia, Symbiosis and Evolution. Springer

The Martyr of General Speculativeness

"The sixteenth century of our era saw the disruption of Western Christianity and the rise of modern science. ... Copernicus and Vesalius may be chosen as representative figures.... Giordano Bruno was the martyr... the cause for which he suffered was not that of science, but that of free imaginative speculation. In his execution there was an unconscious symbolism: for the subsequent tone of scientific thought has contained distrust of his type of general speculativeness." 

Whitehead, A.N(1985) Science and the Modern World. Free Association Books, London. p1-2

Episteme vs Paradigm

Episteme vs Paradigm or Michel Foucault vs Thomas Kuhn this is a short comparison between two terms that have marked epistemological studies. 
The idiosyncratic use of the term paradigm by Kuhn meant to be used  as a collector of all the assumptions and beliefs that in their turn organise scientific theories and practices of a certain epoch. Kuhn was determined to uncover that one set of beliefs and assumptions that encompass scientific research. He was convinced that a series of conscious decisions by scientists were responsible for the scientific theories and practices to change their directions. It is obvious from that that Kuhn's paradigm shift was a part of an "epistemological Conscious". For Foucault things were a bit different. He was more keen to understand the "Epistemological Unconscious" of an era and for that matter he makes use of the episteme in his own idiosyncratic way. For Foucault the access to a set of fundamental assumptions and beliefs was impossible due to the fact that those assumptions were so basic that were almost invisible to the scientists that were operating within it. Based on the "unconscious" character of episteme, Foucault opens his analysis to a broader discourse and does not merely confined it to science. Foucault therefore, is more interested to search for the constitutive limits of a discourse, and more importantly the rules responsible for their emergence and productivity.  


Reading:: 
The Order of Things by Michel Foucault 
The Archaeology of Knowledge by Michel Foucault 
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn

Alice in the Events-land

"Lewis Carroll caries out this operation, inaugurated by the Stoics, or rather, he takes it up again. In all his works, Carroll examines the difference between events, things, and states of affairs. But the entire first half of Alice still seeks the secret of events and of the becoming unlimited which they imply, in the depths of the earth, in dug out shafts and holes which plunge beneath, and in the mixture of bodies which interpenetrates and coexist."

Deleuze, G(2004) The Logic of Sense. Continuum, p.11 
image is linked here: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2009/07/first-look-new-alice-in-wonderland-trailer/

It is in this passage where Deleuze introduces that peculiar approach of causality that has started by the Stoics and have been elaborated more by Lewis Carroll. On the notions of event, things and states of affairs Deleuze will build his ontological scheme of virtual, actual and intensive processes.