The Epiphylogenetic Turn and Architecture

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Description

The issue edited by Robert A. Gorny and Andrej Radman explores the work of French philosopher of technology Bernard Stiegler (1952–2020) to critically rethink the built environment in terms of a constructed yet emergent existential niche. Foremost concerned with technics, the purchase of Stiegler’s thinking and conceptual apparatus is to be found in the proposition of a novel theoretico-methodological turn towards epiphylogenetic processes. Yet to be embraced by discourses on architectural and cultural technologies, the notion of epiphylogenesis implies a kind of recursive path-dependent co-evolution of living systems with non-living means, especially technics. This sympoietic vision – of how culture-shaping technics and technical ensembles like cities (trans)form us – urges us to rethink how environments re-shape ontogenetic processes. The contributions to the issue call for a radical recasting of the architectural discipline by reconsidering the ‘what’ of technicity as constitutive of a (post)human ‘who’.

The launch event will include a short overview of the issue and its contributions, and a panel discussion on the relevance of Stiegler’s work for built environment in the Anthropocene times.
Period16 Feb 2023
Event typeOther
LocationDelft, NetherlandsShow on map