Urban Warfare Research Papers - Academia.edu (original) (raw)

"It was 2016, and the scales of territories, cities, buildings, animals, plants and human started to simultaneously expand and contract. Proximity and narrative became the matter. So we decide to retreat and prepare for the usual... more

"It was 2016, and the scales of territories, cities, buildings, animals, plants and human started to simultaneously expand and contract. Proximity and narrative became the matter. So we decide to retreat and prepare for the usual post-apocalyptic era."
on post-antropocene, Félix Guattari “Architectural Enunciation, territories.

Book: Superhumanity
Editors: Nick Axel, Beatriz Colomina, NIkolaus Hirsch, Anton Vidokle, and Mark Wigley
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press and e-flux Architecture
2018 - Graham Foundation.

The field of design has radically expanded. As a practice, the design is no longer limited to the world of material objects, but rather extends from carefully crafted individual looks and online identities to the surrounding galaxies of personal devices, new materials, interfaces, networks, systems, infrastructures, data, chemicals, organisms, and genetic codes. Superhumanity seeks to explore and challenge our understanding of “design” by engaging with and departing from the concept of the “self.” Superhumanity aims to probe the idea that we are and always have been continuously reshaped by the artifacts we shape, to which we ask: Who designed the lives we live today? What are the forms of life we inhabit, and what new forms are currently being designed? Where are the sites, and what are the techniques, to design others? Over 50 writers, scientists, artists, architects, designers, philosophers, historians, archeologists, and anthropologists bring new insight to these and related questions.

Contributors include Boris Groys, Keller Easterling, Brooke Holmes, Andrew Herscher, Mabel O. Wilson, Trevor Paglen, Zeynep Çelik Alexander, Eyal Weizman, Ruha Benjamin, Tom Holert, Sylvia Lavin, Lydia Kallipoliti, Ina Blom, Lesley Lokko, Raqs Media Collective, MAP Office, Shumon Basar, Felicity D. Scott, Daniel Birnbaum and Sven-Olov Wallenstein, Tony Chakar, Rupali Gupte and Prasad Shetty, Rubén Gallo, Giuliana Bruno, Ingo Niermann, Hu Fang, Spyros Papapetros, Alexander Tarakhovsky, Juliane Rebentisch, Jack Self, Chus Martínez, Lucia Allais, Francesca Hughes, Paulo Tavares, Ahmet Ögüt, Andrés Jaque, Mark Cousins, Hito Steyerl, Franco "Bifo" Berardi, Liam Young, Anton Vidokle and Arseny Zhilyaev, Liam Gillick, Pelin Tan, Benjamin H. Bratton, Simon Denny, Stephan Trüby, Kali Stull and Etienne Turpin, Sophia Roosth, Brian Kuan Wood, Yongwoo Lee, and Thomas Keenan.