"it was too grand for you!"

intellectual speculative urbanism. “I have heard about” is an urban project developed by François Roche… In 2050, the architect returns with his bitterness for our pathogenic passivity and thirst for servitude. Self-organization, adaptation, ethics of immanence and aesthetics of pragmatics form a novel urban scenario. An architecture of real time, implements open algorithms and in an open source fashion triggers the creative indivitualism to form a machinic assemblage with its environment. but all that “It was too big for us”!
we couldn’t embrace the liberating forces, we couldn’t take the risk to live!

tres grandes pour nous!!!

London / Tate Modern / Starr Auditorium / 26 October 2009

Cognition

"Cognition: as immanent to extended /distributed / differential bio-environmental systems in which “real experience” is the non representational direction of action via the integration / resolution of differential fields."

"They thus are naturalists in fighting the myths of the subject"

John Portevi

This creature Life (Differently - original title)

extracted from Fractal Ontology more here

"This creature Life, beyond all evaluations, remains an uninterpretable difference — a kind of difference which is primary with respect to a differential identity, a difference which directly induces individuation, and thereby also seduces us to imitation, to the law of identity, and the shackles of representation.

forcibly undermines the notion that all descends from pure forms

(existence from Idea; God as pure and liberating Force of truth)

rather than through the violent admixture and interpenetration of wildly heterogeneous forces and bodies

(existence from cruelty; God as the tortuously circular Process of differentiation.)

from the absolute will to tragedy is an anti-moral, materialist, atheist metaphysic

Thinking is precisely this adventure which connects its desires not to an identical reality or a primary nullity, but precisely to the an-identical, the differentiality of existence. Not a kind of compromise between two poles of the idea but a war with the arbitrary division of the idea into isolated components, the body of Life into organs without bodies. “We have to learn to think differently — in order at last, perhaps very late on, to attain even more: to feel differently.” Nietzsche (Daybreak, II.103) "

extracted from Fractal Ontology more here

object oriented P

By the time I have immersed my self into object oriented programming I always try to draw transverse connections with an object oriented approach to ontology and general to philosophy. The object oriented philosophy is the intellectual child of Graham Harman. I have to deal with his concept in greater detail and depth but for the moment my personal understanding about this object oriented approach is more inclined to DeLanda’s assemblage theory where an object is a dynamically constructed assemblage.

experimentalism... to inhabit forbidden spaces

"De Landa: The call to be "more experimental" stems not from a utopian desire, and it certainly has absolutely nothing to do with "changing language in the hopes of changing perception". This type of talk belongs to the linguistic relativism that I attack above and which I think is a major block to any progress in this regard. Rather, the "call to action" stems from the realization that we never understood the world properly. We have extremely naive views about the economy, for example. We feel happy to simply speak about the "capitalist system" or "commodification", when the reality of economic history (as uncovered by Fernand Braudel, for example) is much more complex and full of opportunities. There are alternatives to the corporate model, such as a region of contemporary Italy called Emilia-Romagna, dominated by small businesses competing against each other not in terms of costs and reaping economies of scale, but in terms of product design and a concentration of creative people in a region (a model known as "economies of agglomeration"). Now, this region of Italy was put together over the last thirty or so years on the basis of experimentation: it was not planned from above (though local governments did play catalytic roles) and it was not guided by theory. Yet, our obsolete economic ideas prevent us from seeing how innovative this region is, and bias us to see in Emilia-Romagna just another form of "capitalism", or to dismiss it as a short-lived utopia. But a deeper understanding of economics has the opposite effect: it shows that past history is full of "Emilia-Romagnas", that our economic choices were never between "capitalism" and "socialism", but were more open than that.

A similar change has ocurred in our conception of matter, which is now viewed as capable of much richer behavior than before, and this needs to change the very form that a materialist philosophy takes. And being more experimental here is simply a way of responding to the extra capabilities we have discovered in matter itself. How this may impinge on the practice of art is related to what I said above in relation to theories of the genesis of form. To develop a new, non-essentialist, relation to materials (including linguistic materials) seems to me more important today than challenging social assumptions about what art is or how it should be displayed. (We have been "challenging conventions", or "deconstructing them" for over thirty years now, it's time to move on.)"

extract from an Interview by Art210

symb(i/o)tika's new logo

I had 2 hours break today and I decided to spend my time to create this short video/animation with the brand new logo/id of symb(i/o)tika research project. hope you like it.

update: the same logo emerges through diffusion rules

using wiring parameters in 3dsmax

acting pragmatically

"As an intelligent species we spent millennia successfully coping with the environmental changes using accumulated knowledge about cause and effects relations. Hume himself argues that the ability to match means to ends (i.e. the capacity for causal reasoning), is not an exclusively human ability but may be observed in other animals which use it 'for their own preservation and the propagation of species'... The subject or person emerging from the assembly of sub-personal components (impressions, ideas, propositional attitudes, habits, skills) has the right capacities to act pragmatically (i.e. it match means and ends) as well socially, to select ends for a variety of habitual or customary reasons that need not involve any conscious decision."

DeLanda, M. (2006) A New Philosophy of Society: Assemblage Theory and Social Complexity. Continuum, London p.51-52