Digital Doubles: The Major Agency of Minor Bits

10.01.2023

AD Special Issue: Architectures of Refusal

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Lucía Jalón Oyarzun, A paradoxically accurate 43% of blurred uncertainty, 2022. Google’s Cloud Vision API applied to Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s The tower of Babel (c. 1563) confirms that there is a building in the image with a 57% certainty.
Lucía Jalón Oyarzun, A paradoxically accurate 43% of blurred uncertainty, 2022. Google’s Cloud Vision API applied to Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s The tower of Babel (c. 1563) confirms that there is a building in the image with a 57% certainty.

In a world that seeks to describe, codify and quantify everything, and particularly our viscerality and its interactions with our actual and digital environments, can we find interstitial spaces, currently unseen, unobserved and unlegislated, where we might be able to create minor architectures capable of blooming?

Published in Architectural Design’s Special Issue: Architectures of Refusal.
Edited by Jill Stoner and Ozayr Saloojee.
Volume 92, Issue 6, November/December 2022

08.05.2019

Cuerpos Anestesiados y Estéticas de lo Clandestino en el Interior Totalizante del Capitalismo Contemporáneo

Ellison - Invisible Man Jeff Wall 01
El ser humano es pura exterioridad. Nuestra condición natural es la exposición pues, tal y como escribía el filósofo holandés Spinoza, “es imposible que el ser humano no sea una parte de la naturaleza”. No podemos protegernos en el aislamiento y el encierro. Siempre somos en nuestros encuentros, de donde se sigue que siempre estamos… View Article
14.09.2023

Minoring Architectural Research

A theoretical and practical reflection on the possibilities, positions and methodologies of a minor approach to architectural research will reveal key concepts and tools to establish a critical position, build a situated architectural investigation and produce research materials otherwise. Minor architectures are an open repertoire of spatial practices and know-hows based on the immanent differentiating… View Article
06.06.2022

The Haptic Quality of Urban Sensing: from the Nudge to the Algorithmic Touch Manifold

David Simon, The Wire
Environmentality, as a new form of governmentality, works through an ubiquitous and distributed network of sensing and communication devices, simultaneously capturing and emitting information (Gabrys, 2014). Part of this environmentality works through the nudging of human and non-human bodies, creating an informational surround with the ability to move bodies, push them to action or inhibit… View Article