LEADER 04802oam 2200709Ia 450 001 9910779575903321 005 20231126152924.0 010 $a0-262-31262-X 010 $a1-299-35601-X 010 $a0-262-31261-1 035 $a(CKB)2550000001016624 035 $a(EBL)3339589 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000835133 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11516225 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000835133 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10989772 035 $a(PQKB)11530341 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3339589 035 $a(CaBNVSL)mat06517056 035 $a(IDAMS)0b00006481d6ddde 035 $a(IEEE)6517056 035 $a(OCoLC)833132688$z(OCoLC)830945361$z(OCoLC)868203377$z(OCoLC)961572182$z(OCoLC)962652754$z(OCoLC)988417333$z(OCoLC)992065505$z(OCoLC)1037932505$z(OCoLC)1038631840$z(OCoLC)1045497092$z(OCoLC)1055371107$z(OCoLC)1058858558$z(OCoLC)1066653116$z(OCoLC)1081201999$z(OCoLC)1083604887 035 $a(OCoLC-P)833132688 035 $a(MaCbMITP)7595 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3339589 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10674445 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL466851 035 $a(OCoLC)833132688 035 $a(PPN)259323551 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001016624 100 $a20130328d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aContagious architecture $ecomputation, aesthetics, and space /$fLuciana Parisi 210 $aCambridge, MA $cMIT Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (391 p.) 225 1 $aTechnologies of lived abstraction 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-262-01863-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; Series Foreword; Preface: Weird Formalism; Acknowledgments; 1 Incomputable Objects in the Age of the Algorithm; 1.0 Metamodeling; 1.1 Background media; 1.2 Metadigital fallacy; 1.3 Discrete objects; 1.4 Algorithmic aesthetics; 1.5 Speculative reason; 2 Soft Extension: Topological Control and Mereotopological Space Events; 2.0 The invariant function; 2.1 Folds or differential relations; 2.2 Parametricism or deep relationality; 2.3 Soft temporalities; 2.4 Extension is what extension doesn't; 2.5 Blind spots: space events; 2.6 Mereotopology of extension 327 $a2.7 Mereotopology of abstraction2.8 Parametric prehensions; 2.9 Extensive novelties; 3 Architectures of Thought; 3.0 Soft thought; 3.1 Cybernetic thought; 3.2 Ecological thought; 3.3 Interactive thought; 3.4 Technoembodied mind; 3.5 Mindware and wetware; 3.6 Synaptic space; 3.7 Transitive computation; 3.8 Thought event; 3.9 Soft thought II; Glossary; Notes; References; Index 330 $aIn Contagious Architecture, Luciana Parisi offers a philosophical inquiry into the status of the algorithm in architectural and interaction design. Her thesis is that algorithmic computation is not simply an abstract mathematical tool but constitutes a mode of thought in its own right, in that its operation extends into forms of abstraction that lie beyond direct human cognition and control. These include modes of infinity, contingency, and indeterminacy, as well as incomputable quantities underlying the iterative process of algorithmic processing. The main philosophical source for the project is Alfred North Whitehead, whose process philosophy is specifically designed to provide a vocabulary for "modes of thought" exhibiting various degrees of autonomy from human agency even as they are mobilized by it. Because algorithmic processing lies at the heart of the design practices now reshaping our world -- from the physical spaces of our built environment to the networked spaces of digital culture -- the nature of algorithmic thought is a topic of pressing importance that reraises questions of control and, ultimately, power. Contagious Architecture revisits cybernetic theories of control and information theory's notion of the incomputable in light of this rethinking of the role of algorithmic thought. Informed by recent debates in political and cultural theory around the changing landscape of power, it links the nature of abstraction to a new theory of power adequate to the complexities of the digital world. 410 0$aTechnologies of lived abstraction. 606 $aSpace (Architecture) 606 $aArchitecture$xPhilosophy 610 $aDIGITAL HUMANITIES & NEW MEDIA/General 610 $aDESIGN/Interactive Design 610 $aPHILOSOPHY/General 615 0$aSpace (Architecture) 615 0$aArchitecture$xPhilosophy. 676 $a720.1 700 $aParisi$b Luciana$0573679 801 0$bOCoLC-P 801 1$bOCoLC-P 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910779575903321 996 $aContagious architecture$91336123 997 $aUNINA