The Space of TechnicityTheorising Social, Technical and Environmental Entanglements

Theorising Social, Technical and Environmental Entanglements

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ID5790232
AuthorsHeidi Sohn, H M Schroder, Layout Galanopoulou, Guillermo Bonfil Batalla, México Profundo
EditorsRobert Alexander Gorny (0000-0003-4603-4081, Delft University of Technology), Stavros Kousoula (0000-0002-0285-0653, Delft University of Technology), Dulmini Perera (0000-0002-9300-5737, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar), Andrej Radman (0000-0002-8914-1197, Delft University of Technology)
Year2024
Publication date2024-04-15
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueThe Space of TechnicityTheorising Social, Technical and Environmental Entanglements (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherTU Delft OPEN Publishing (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.59490/mg.95
OpenAlexW4394821600
ISBN9789493329140
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited177

Desperate times demand optimistic transdisciplinary measures. This volume unites a select group of thinkers who courageously traverse disciplinary boundaries. What brings them together is the least stratified 'component': a shared problem. It is a widely recognised that a problem gets the solution it merits. However, only a few acknowledge that a problem seldom neatly fits within a single discipline, nor does it conform to the principle of general equivalence. Handling its irreducibility and non-entailment is a skill possessed by very few. Even fewer take the quasi-causal capacity of what we term the 'space of technicity' seriously. The space of technicity, the shared problem of this volume, is a consequence of immanence. Each configuration of surfaces comprising the built environment produces an intangible effect, acting as a quasi-cause. It can be referred to as downward causation or the timely rediscovery of (neo)finalism. In this volume it is approached it from the perspective of axiology. The space of technicity allows us to evade techno-determinism without adopting an anything-goes attitude. That which has become manifest could have individuated differently. However, the potential of a body cannot be discerned before intervening in the causal fabric of agential reality to extract the singular points that make certain outcomes more likely than others, surpassing mere probability. When operating within the ethico-aesthetic paradigm, where sense becomes intricately dependent on sensibility, and vice versa, the volume's attitude might be said to approximate the Spinozian third kind of knowledge that intuits design (and its space of technicity) beyond mere imagination or reason. This edited volume was inspired by a virtual round table that exhibited a high degree of resonance among the participants. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBiBAgxC5FM

Linguistics · Subtitle · Architecture and Computational Design · Art, Technology, and Culture · Philosophical and Theoretical Analysis · Philosophy

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