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Spatial Assemblage : Apparatus/Diffraction  Assemblage : Apparatus/Diffraction “There are no simple concepts. Every concept has components and is defined by them. It therefore has a combination [chiffre]. It is a multiplicity, although not every multiplicity is conceptual… Not only do Descartes, Hegel, and Feuerbach not begin with the same concept, they do not have the…

Drawing on Life : Bento’s Sketchbook/A Hut of One’s Own : John Berger/Ann Cline/Bento de Spinoza In the backyard of where she was living, Cline once decided to build a hut inspired by Kakuzo Okakura’s The Book of Tea. As my dwelling took shape, it began to shape my life as well. And when I…

Corpus : Propositions/Proofs and the situatedness of an environment Architectural Body/An organism that persons Organism, Person, Environment : Madeline Gins and Arakawa You cannot see me from where I look at myself Francesca Woodman Therefore the idea of the human body is composed of the many ideas of the component parts. The idea which  constitutes…

Generative/Emergent/Influences : The vibrancy and effectivity of nonhuman bodies, forces and flows/Jane Bennett Mimesis : Paradox or Encounter Jane Bennett. 2018 Everything changes. It is not that everything is always at the precipice of dissolution, but that every thing is changing in relations with oth­ers—at speeds that are sometimes slow and gradual and sometimes fast…

Painting/Studio Practice : Micropolitics of slowness and repetition Indexical Patterning/Painting : Affective Relational Intensities Micropolitics of slowness and repetition Pattern and Chaos/Liminality/Tectonics Architectural surface for a Library,  raw materials, light, silence and solitude. We are not in the presence of a passively representative image, but a vector of subjectivation. Guattari, 1995 :25 Vessels that resist…

Slow Philosophy/Discursive Attachments : Gathering Inquiry/Materials/Objects/Things Slow Philosophy/Discursive Attachments : Gathering Materials/Objects/Things Research as a discursive activity gathering new forms of expression. Duration, Steven Holl Time is only understood in relation to a process or a phenomenon. The duration of human beings alive in one time and place is a relational notion. The time of…

Collage Body : Diversions, Contradictions and Anomalies. Collage : Diversions, Contradictions and Anomalies. Body : Personal Relations and Spatial Values Reading : Slow Philosophy Collage’s integral methods of discordance and displacement have so insistently reflected turbulent developments in twentieth century art, science and geopolitics that our response might be to categorise the whole genre as…

On the nature of photography : Alternative Photographic Processes On the nature of photography Alternative Photographic Processes MOLECULAR SIEVE, is a performative analysis of “this place” utilising the simple properties of the pinhole camera. This appropriated apparatus makes visible the extrusive nature of time as it is deposited on the photographic surface. The extended durations…

Biosphere/Archipelago : Sun Drawing/Cyanotype/Spheres of Activity Bioscleave/Blue Particle Cloud/Diagram. Biosphere/Archipelago : Sun Drawing/Cyanotype The sun has gone mad and stripped the earth of its ionosphere. For decades blasting radiation has poured upon earth, melting the polar caps and turning permafrost into streams, rivers, oceans. Huge deltas have been built, lakes formed, seas have risen. The…

What is philosophy/Deleuze, Guattari : The unfolded garment and other spatial concepts  Intermezzo : Nomadic Photographic Assemblage What is philosophy/Deleuze, Guattari a thousand plateaus Deleuze, Guattari Assemblage Becoming Body Without Organs Nomad Rhizome Smooth Space State War Machine The Uberficiation of the University BY MARK CARRIGAN ON NOVEMBER 22, 2016 A fascinating short book by…