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

24.03.2022

Narratives as Minor Architectures’ Repertoire: Affective Images and Haptic Architectural Visions

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Children’s Games, 1560
“This was what literature knew, had always known. Literature tried to open the universe, to increase, even if only slightly, the sum total of what it was possible for human beings to perceive, understand, and so, finally, to be. Great literature went to the edges of the known and pushed against the boundaries of language,… View Article
10.01.2022

Nothing but a few signs, like stars in an immense black night: clandestinity and night-faring practices in the Underground Railroad

Edwin Hergesheimer, Map showing the distribution of the slave population of the southern states of the United States. Compiled from the census of 1860. Washington: Henry S. Graham, 1861
The text focuses on how clandestinity, understood as the articulation of spaces of secrecy and invisibility, is traversed by a singular form of architectural knowledge centered on embodied practices. A set of minor know-hows playing with the lines of the visible world while understanding the material effects of individual and collective bodies, all founded on… View Article
13.02.2024

El paisaje como imagen afectiva

Corinne Vionnet, Photo Opportunities: Berlin, 2005-2014.
En su camino hacia una filosofía política fundada no en cómo nos gustaría que fueran las cosas, sino en cómo son, el filósofo Spinoza tuvo que dar un paso atrás y desarrollar una ética que le permitiese demostrar, more geometrico, los afectos no como vicios o defectos de la naturaleza sino como propiedades de los… View Article