Description
The presentation seeks to invigorate radical empiricism as a means of tapping not into the solipsistic world of design, but into the relation of exteriority – the design of the world. Such anti-representational disposition resonates strongly with Félix Guattari’s Ethico-Aesthetics, or eco-logical ‘power-to’ experimentation, that seeks to challenge all-too-reductionist ego-logical conceptions of ‘power-over’ relations. The presentation juxtaposes three conceptual triads related to feeling, acting and learning: Charles Sanders Peirce’s firstness, secondness and thirdness; James Jerome Gibson’s Ambient Optic Array, Occluding Edge and Affordance; and Marcel Mauss’s threefold gift-exchange system. The concept of affect, as a near synonym of affordance, becomes indispensable in overcoming the subject/object opposition by tying sensibility to sense, and matter to manner. The main thesis is inspired by Gilbert Simondon’s ‘formula’ that knowledge of individuation is itself the individuation of knowledge.| Period | 19 Feb 2024 |
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| Event title | On an architectural therapy of human ecumene: Affordances as a means of caring for and balancing environments |
| Event type | Seminar |
| Location | Paris, FranceShow on map |