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Architectural Cyborgs – Nanotechnology and the Potential for Living Architecture
The real destiny of the machine [is] to merge itself with natural organisms. - Jack Burnham, Beyond Modern Sculpture, 1968 Prelude: In 1928, R. Buckminster Fuller presented the design for his Dymaxion House to the American Institute of Architects (AIA) … Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, biology, Buckminster Fuller, christopher langton, cybernetics, cyborg, donna haraway, ecology, environmentalism, john von neumann, macy conferences, nanotechnology, natural organisms, technology, theory of automata, universal turing machine
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Provocation 3: The Human Servomechanism
For the last several months, I have been researching the field of cybernetics in preparation for a thesis that I will be preparing throughout the course of the next academic year. At the current time, this research is admittedly broad, … Continue reading
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Tagged Computer Human Interaction, cybernetics, David Mindell, technology
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