Luis Hernan
Biographic Data
| ID | 9660897 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Luis Hernan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Luis |
| FAMILY NAME | Hernan |
| SIGNATURE | HERNÁN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sheffield |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5585-2452 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Of Force Fields and Men
In this paper, I engage with the “invisible wall” at the Mexico-United States border. The idea of an invisible border is not new, but recent proposals are defined by the involvement of Silicon Valley, as well as by the use of Science Fiction (SF) and the mythological to reframe and create new fictions. I trace the trope of the “force field” and the way it has been mobilized by Palmer Luckey in his promotion of the Anduril Sentry, a mobile observa…
A Home with a Future. Digital Domesticity and the Vague Fictions of Silicon Valley
The last two decades have seen an explosion in the numbers of digital devices that “weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life.” Here we bring to critical attention the material, ethical and spatial consequences of integrating digital devices in physical spaces. We concentrate on the way Silicon Valley constructs a narrative of digital domesticity. Harriet Riches uses the term to describe online magazines that seek to revive hand-made craf…
Time is out of Joint
Architecture has often looked at science fiction to understand the way that new technologies have an effect on the buildings we create. Here we advocate for a broadening of the canon suggesting that there are other traditions and forms of speculative fiction that destabilize the canon through which we imagine the future of buildings. Inspired by the recent coinage of “auto-theory” and the work of feminist writers such as Donna Haraway, Eula Biss,…
Living Ashes
We document and reflect on Living Ashes II, a performance with protocells developed as part of the 2016 Click Festival in Helsingør. Protocells are animated by their membrane; they are formed by an alkali solution that is released on a fatty milieu. The chemical variations create an interface at the edges, thickening and weakening the membrane as it pushes the protocell to move along the chemical gradient outside. We use the membrane as a tool to…
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Living Ashes
We document and reflect on Living Ashes II, a performance with protocells developed as part of the 2016 Click Festival in Helsingør. Protocells are animated by their membrane; they are formed by an alkali solution that is released on a fatty milieu. The chemical variations create an interface at the edges, thickening and weakening the membrane as it pushes the protocell to move along the chemical gradient outside. We use the membrane as a tool to…
Time is out of Joint
Architecture has often looked at science fiction to understand the way that new technologies have an effect on the buildings we create. Here we advocate for a broadening of the canon suggesting that there are other traditions and forms of speculative fiction that destabilize the canon through which we imagine the future of buildings. Inspired by the recent coinage of “auto-theory” and the work of feminist writers such as Donna Haraway, Eula Biss,…
A Home with a Future. Digital Domesticity and the Vague Fictions of Silicon Valley
The last two decades have seen an explosion in the numbers of digital devices that “weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life.” Here we bring to critical attention the material, ethical and spatial consequences of integrating digital devices in physical spaces. We concentrate on the way Silicon Valley constructs a narrative of digital domesticity. Harriet Riches uses the term to describe online magazines that seek to revive hand-made craf…
Of Force Fields and Men
In this paper, I engage with the “invisible wall” at the Mexico-United States border. The idea of an invisible border is not new, but recent proposals are defined by the involvement of Silicon Valley, as well as by the use of Science Fiction (SF) and the mythological to reframe and create new fictions. I trace the trope of the “force field” and the way it has been mobilized by Palmer Luckey in his promotion of the Anduril Sentry, a mobile observa…
Aesthetics (4 works) · Art (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Narrative (3 works) · History (2 works) · Latin American Literature Studies (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Architecture (1 works) · Canon (1 works) · Chemistry (1 works)