The transhumanist Culture Natasha Vita-More Cultural movements, from the Graeco-Romans, Romanesque culture, Humanism, the Renaissance, Romanticism, Modernism, and Postmodernisms to transhumanism, carve an eminent mark on history as their trends ripen into social norms or dissolve when newly found social passions come along. Culture and its many movements are forever evolving forward in a perpetual […]

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-Mike + Dough Starn: Starn Studio: Big Bambu: You Cant Stop, You Wont Stop, You Dont Stop. ‘A series about what it is to be alive, grow, and to change….the connective tissue…those interconnections where all the interactions happen and something gets made’

Many of the aspects Andy Clark brings to the foreground in his book, Natural-Born Cyborgs, are reiterated in this Ted Talk by Amber Case; that we are already cyborgs. The case is put forth that we have actually been “cyborgs” since humans began using tools, as the brain offloads its processes to the ubiquitous use […]

-As the architectural profession, along with other professions, continues to adopt terminologies from biology (in this case evolutionary biology/genetics), the terms (listed below) become important in the creation of architectural design at the level of the digital code. In the time of a biotechnical architecture, where architecture is considered more biological than human-made “machine” (as […]

The Age of Simulation: The Automated Environment In this century, we have witnessed what may be the greatest revolution in history, in which advances in science and technology have allowed us to push back the limits of human existence. These advances have made it possible for us to overcome distance and physical barriers so we […]

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The Extended Mind Andy Clark 1993 1 Introduction Where does the mind stop and the rest of the world begin? The question invites two standard replies. Some accept the demarcations of skin and skull, and say that what is outside the body is outside the mind. Others are impressed by arguments suggesting that the meaning […]

Man-Computer Symbiosis J.C.R. Licklider 1960 Summary Man-computer symbiosis is an expected development in cooperative interaction between men and electronic computers. It will involve very close coupling between the human and the electronic members of the partnership. The main aims are 1) to let computers facilitate formulative thinking as they now facilitate the solution of formulated […]

-Continuing the discourse on technologies role in architecture, Biophilia + Technophilia interjects with a series of polemical essays on architectures role via the coevolution of technology and biology. The text alludes to an architecture where constructs are built of biotechnical mergers, from the bottom-up through molecular processes where they are able to adapt, respond, and […]