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Gediminas Urbonas.
Tang, Casey.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Architecture.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Architecture
2021-12-17T18:24:14Z
2021-12-17T18:24:14Z
2020
2020
https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/138585
1288601078
Thesis: S.M. in Art, Culture and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, September, September, 2020
Cataloged from the official PDF of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 81-84).
Life is an ongoing process of unfolding within a continuum of matter-cognition-semiotics. Evolutionary dynamics and biophysical forces exhibit end-directed (teleonomic) behavior. They increase interconnection over time, integrating antecedent foundational emergent layers into new aggregations, with their own forms, semiotics, and cognition capable of better navigating the environment from which it emerged. Our current technologies and systems, an outcome of these currents of aggregation and agency, are increasing capabilities to interconnect and integrate across abiotic, biotic, semiotic, and cognitive spheres, leading to strong emergence and enframing. Critical aesthetic practices enable us to become conscious of the dominant epistemic, technological, and semantic structures that have become enmeshed in our perception giving us more agency, increasing our evolutionary flexibility, and allowing us to influence our becoming. By understanding underlying biophysical forces, evolutionary dynamics, and the relation of entities as a space inseparable from "Being," artists and cultural producers engaged in critical aesthetic practice can more easily perceive, embody, and analyze deep interconnections and dynamics within a world of increasing integration and complexity.
by Casey Tang.
S.M. in Art, Culture and Technology
S.M. in Art, Culture and Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture
84 pages
eng
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Architecture.
Being in the world as if there's nothing from the first : a praxis-framework for emergence
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