Fabulation in the Anthropocene

"We have lost what it means to be an architect; we have lost this notion. It does not mean constructing a building. Many people construct buildings, but are they necessarily architects? No! So why are we architects? To define a political-aesthetic condition of construction where we produce something in order to destabilise that habits of a situation. I don't think there is anything else for us, because if we take the job of an architect, it is not for the beauty of the building alone, or for the arrogance of the discourse, or to become that master of ceremonies which so many young egos want to become today, but to question the condition of production and the context of practice." 

Roche, F.(2014) Matters of Fabulation: On the Construction of Realities in the Anthropocene. In Architecture in the Anthropocene ed. Ettien Turpin. p. 197 

Guattari's Ecosophical Logic

"Unlike Hegelian and Marxist Dialectics, eco-logic no longer imposes a 'resolution' of opposites. In the domain of social ecology there will be times of struggle in which everyone will feel impelled to decide on common objectives and to act 'like little soldiers', by which I mean good activists. But there will simultaneously be periods in which individual and collective subjectivities will pull out without a thought for collective aims, and in which creative expression as such will take precedence. This new ecosophical logic -- and I want to emphasise this point -- resembles the manner in which an artist may be led to alter his work after the intrusion of some accidental detail, an event-incident that suddenly makes his initial project bifurcate. making a drift [deriver] far from its previous path, however certain it had once appeared to. There is a proverb 'the exception proves the rule/, but the exception can just as easily deflect the rule, or even recreate it."

Guattari, F (2000) Three Ecologies. Coninuum: London. p. 34 

Deductive, Inductive, Transductive

"Gilbert Simondon: There is a third way of progress that I try to think through; the notion of transductivity (transductivité). It is the passage of an assembly consisting in a set. In this sense, something is transductive which is transmitted to the next, which eventually propagates with amplification. It is the passage of the triode (electron tube) to the transistor, that is to say, from one system to another where voltages and currents are not the same. Another example would be an aircraft engine from, without doubt, the motorcycle engine; lightweight, reliable and not requiring water cooling. In all cases we use an analogy where the real differences are taken into account and not a simple approximate reasoning." Interview here

Human-Machine vs Human/s-Machine/s

"The issue is no longer to adapt, even after violence, but to localise. Where is your place?" Deleuze on Humans-Machines ATP p.570