The Black Box in the White Cube: Lyotard’s Les Immatériaux as Machinic Theater
The 1960s and 1970s mark the first time contemporary art opposed modernist art. Formalist strategies that privileged the art object were displaced by discursive, administrative and conceptual approaches that emphasized relationships, and connoisseurship gave way to the demands of the growing research-industrial complex. The concept of creativity partially shifted from a traditional craft function to [...]
In the Metal and in the Flesh: The Materiality and Individuation of Information through Architecture
The order and connection of ideas is the same as the order and connection of things.[1] – Baruch Spinoza Thoughts in the concrete are made of the same stuff as things are.[2] – William James (1912) In the decades immediately following the Second World War, architectural practice and spatial theory experienced a crisis of legitimacy [...]
