I have the feeling that this Blog is running out of life. That it is in its final moments, for various reasons.

Today I wanted to think about the relationship between the ideas of pushing forward-acceptance-adaptation and replacement. Yesterday I watched InRealLife, which I don't believe it's a superb documentary. I also don't think it is a very insightful documentary, but it has nevertheless, a bunch of thought-provoking moments that are worth a write, one of them being the idea of replacement.

There is a section where one of the speakers talks about the interactions that the internet mediates. He goes on to ask; what are these mediations replacing?

The reason I thought this was genius is because, he's not arguing that the young generation will or won't adapt, but the fact that they quite inevitably do, and that this adaptation conforms a transformation in itself. The question to follow; what kind of transformation? and are we willing to accept it?

This is beautiful since it opens up alternative scenarios, since the mind can sometimes find itself in a trap, lucidity comes when least expected. Feelings are a good parameter but no one listens to them(?)

In this mini-post my conclusion would be a call for action. For us to evaluate alternative scenarios when we face discomfort or disagreement. How would they be? How could I put them in place? What are the implications? These mini-assessments will open up your imagination, and hopefully (Microsoft)windows of possibility.

Just on time for a new day. A new post. Sometimes my Mac makes me feel at home. Wide- Screen peacefulness, otherworldly...

I know, silly.


This post is about how feelings get mixed up, messed up. It's not an easy one, not only in terms of realisation, and confrontation, but of acknowledgement, and perhaps calibration. By this I mean the anxiety-sex-work-hunger-guilt relationship. I think these, are though ones, and easy to remix (Rihanna).

Money is also a Vector, and also a way of looking at the world. A World to be appropriated. But Today I wanted to talk to what is closest to you, that of your bodily frame. I can no longer resort to the Kantian notion of mind-body separation, but different minds perform differently onto different bodies, according to their environment, and to their not-so-worldly aspirations; maybe that is what we can call imagination, or the idealised World; a world of Perfect Objects.

 I have the feeling that all these projections, or aspirations; those which have been projected onto us, and those to which we have gravitated ourselves, can generate situations of discomfort that morph into different modes of anxiety; like food(anxiety), sex(anxiety), work(anxiety), etc. Not a pleasant list. But by this I am not implying that food is no good, or sex or work; but what is not good-an by this I mean, I doesn't feel right- is that this exploration for the satisfaction of Anxiety cannot be found in these outsourcing movements or tactics. Moreover these will only add to your pile of Guilt-Anxiety. It is important that you gravitated towards what you feel is Good for you, and obviously, by measure, for others. This is a hefty claim, and one that I wouldn't like to simplify, but I would like to keep this focused to the anxiety-sex-work-hunger-guilt complex. I am by no means trying to create a well rounded narrative, but to think trough writing.

From this perspective of the self, it is vital you think off all that provides you with peace, or better said, calm. Reaching this point of calmness will allow you to think. And to think again in a less foggy environment.

Confusing feelings of anxiety with hunger, is a big one, since the need is not fulfilled. Instead food is consumed, gastric-ally moved, and disposed in the form of guilty, painful shit. I have been there. I know. I have recently read that having water is good for you to listen to your body, and to learn wether you are truly hungry. I am not sure if it works for me. The fact that Google is collecting all this Data from me, I don't know if it works for me still, but I am using their service for now.

Identifying these little moments of discomfort can help you better to go trough your day. Life a process, rather than goal-reaching. In all of this, it is important that we learn all that we have hoped for, and use it to our advantage, and those that we care for. I currently care mostly, for myself. But that doesn't mean that I have no empathy whatsoever, I am just not easily moved. I don't think most people have real problems. I don't , I am just almost empty of Passion, and therefore for a Love of the World and all that Pertains to me, and comes about to my domain. All my work lately, has been a sigh for help, of exasperation. But there is no Mercy for me, I have it piecemeal.

So if we think, or feel, we are in a moment; a process of exasperation, it is important to look inwards, and to produce a taxonomy of one's own guts. Therein might the truth be unravelled, or unfolded before our eyes. But don't think of this as contemplation, but as a plane for action. Believe, me. There is more to Life than This.

Seconds might smell of Hours (Synesthesia), and Google or Mac might be able to AutoCorrect Rhiana, but not Synesthesia. There might be something wrong with these Tools that we deal With, there IS work to be done. Collectively, believe me. In isolation, believe me.

On a final note I have to say that if anything, water might the closest to a whisper. Scape YouTube, and begin a transmutation that looks no further; you have become Yourself (Chet Faker) without resorting to Realism[Well Done].

This post is on the idea of delegating. On how it can go wrong, and how it can go better than wrong.

This also has to do with the idea of Isolation, (modern) Art and the idea of the Creative Loner CS5.

I believe. It is also correlated to the idea of imperialism, success and progress, as promoted by so called capitalist culture, and its ascribing media culture. Which we say it ascribes, as the privileged white boy who thinks reality is seamless and has the option to choose. But when your product is commissioned by this very system, it is difficult to talk about choice; there is no choice.

So delegating, is the act of "entrusting to another" (Merriam Webster) an action, or a material good, or an action exercised on a material good...so on a so forth. The idea of delegating, goes hand in hand with the idea of expertise, which is unique to an advanced individual, who has the capability to resolve an issue pertaining its areas of competence. This individual performs to the faith of efficiency, to the expedient. It has by all means a sense of speed, of velocity. The idea of delegating, has at its core, the belief that working in a team is losing personal control, so a final product can be produced in the quickest, neatest and most advanced way. It is a power game between resources-time-production; it responds to the logic of exchange. It is also imperialistic since it aims at expanding, and perpetuate its modes of engulfing individualities, and creating Collective Units of Production. This is not History, but cultural Realism. 

Now not only the product suffers in this process, but in this context of Productive Labour,  we need to think of how inter-personal relationships are managed, since this is a relationship of obligation. Since this context is not of sociability, there is no Choice, i.e. I don't like this guy, I will not talk to him. Instead in the context of work choice is limited, and you have to talk to your colleges.

What I am trying to say here, is that this is not a context that we are familiar with, we are not raised (I mean maybe yes, but not usually in privileged-Stinky-European-families). This context of collaboration for the production of a good, or the delivery of a service, needs to be learnt. It is a space of learning, where a specific logic applies. This means that we do not longer deal with colleagues in a context of sociability, but of Production.

Why would this have anything to do with isolation? Because delegating is the removing of the self from a certain task, and surrendering full control or custody. Romanticising loneliness, creates different spaces of resources-time-production. It is a way of gaining a sense of control, wether is actual or delusional.

But in any case, why would it go wrong? or why would it go right? This is because since the working environment is new to the young professional, he(me) might make a series of mistakes:

1.- And very common. Doesn't know to delegate, and task-overflow happens. In this case it's important to acknowledge, and to start working with the idea of a team in mind.

1.1.- Too much food on your plate. Spread; delegate.

1.2.- Too much food on your plate. Too much food, all at once. And it is easy to collapse, and baffle baffle. Make sure you take one item at a time. I do this One Thing now, I do this Two thing once I have finished with the previous task, otherwise schizophrenia follows.

2.- And very common. He knows what to delegate (he can identify), but she doesn't know how to delegate. And believe me, Forms are important in this case.

2.1.- Real common. He knows how to delegate, he has lots of food in his plate, but he has failed on the delivery of the highly roasted, crusty carrots. You know that sometimes consistency relies on swift movements, and it is real important that you care too (believe or not this is mandatory mode; I am telling you to do). 

2.2.- You need to say Hi, how can I help you? And take it all in. Then delegate: can you please do this for this student (don't hesitate). At this point it is important that you pass the relevant information to your colleagues. That you Politely, and Concisely Delegate. That you PCD well-done. this means that is one task at a time, and one request at a time, since you are part of a team. You are not ordering them to proceed, but asking them if they would be able to. 

I know it hurts, but some people need the flattery(ing) bit. You'll have to serve it....

I have been thinking of You for a long time, and if you are a woman, eating Pizza overnight, more so. Not that I have a food disorder, but I tend to think that all that is White, stinks of Privilege; yes that brand of Greek looks that do no good to your marble surface; ask Mr Clean. Who not coincidentally, is a white mtfk** who sniffs coke dust off the counters at fabric overnight (while you eat your smelly pizza). Please don't get on the tube.

All of these things worry me. Like not being able to pursue my dreams. Pizza man, has been eating pizza for like 25 years and has diabetes, but he thinks pizza-monogamy is still cool, and he cooks it.

I have no pity for them. I have no pity for anyone who is suffering around the world at this moment, since I cannot condense all these experiences in my self, and Topshop knows that, they've sewn it into the brand, albeit your bought it by knowing of being guilty of homicide.

Chantal Mouffe recently exclaimed that Archiecture is not political, and I can very strongly disagree. Not for her french accent, but for the inconsistency of her speech. I have for so no apology.

We can come to an understanding of politics as a societal system. But it is in my day to day choice, in my body, in my fashion that my sovereignty rests, for I have been deprived of a stable ground. I am therefore not grounded, I am a body of Fashion.

The queen has no empathy, like no other, and she enjoys very much masturbating under the seats of the House of Lords, might be dirty or not, although part of her jurisdiction, not of her concern. Or that's what I thought Dior to say when Drunk. Drink being the poison of choice for relief.

If you keep your fingers crossed, you get to pray, and to die peacefully, for all your dreams have come true, in that place which we call heaven. Hell is embodiment, and with it comes the clitoris. It has been designed for excitement transmutates into oblivion by experience; its inevitably pink and hardcore, barcode of Heavens.

IN any case I am not trying here to run forever along the currents of the river, for these allowances fight for the perfect ideal of existence, that deals with no contigency, and solely with the glow of the stars under naked eyes, those which I no longer posess.

I have hoped that All my blood could be collected, coupled, and disposed peacefully in our nearest Tesco, as Spanish Black Pudding, as Tesco Finest. But I am not trying to publicy the brand, but their jump to mediocrity, and how it becomes the hottest venues for the homeless on Sundays, the hookers, and the disappointed prayers. I claim for it not to be hell as long as it Sunday, it contains all that is divine, and counter-divine; creating a space of antagony, and of harmony, since all that is consumed turns into shit, and the difference remains no different fom the eyes of the beholder, those which he posses under the surveiling cameras that police, quite fakely and frankly, the streets; all has to be said.


Drugs for so are not white, but the tomate that covers the pizza, and the spice of life, or a piece of change [you might want to contact Volkswagen in all regarding plumbing cars].

You might also have wondered why THE Fuck, blogger (American) Autocorrects that which is pronounced as Volkswagen, and highlights as non-existant the word poiesis. This is the time when, AS Chantal Mouffe would say, there is NO politics, but a heartless Polity.


Fashion pertains the body, and all of its bodily functions, and can perform all that is valid and satisfies its libido for life. It has no boundary as far as it has some sort of personal autonomy fueled by biological functionalism.  All that is extraneous to the body, stands in the realm of the environment, and therefore, again, extraneous. Law exists to govern the bodies, and also the spaces and interactions that these perform, and inter-perform. But they never acknowledge all the complexities that escape their comprehension, as if Laws where shaped by Natural Law, which remains, in every aspect of the act of appropriation, a scandalous act.
You have for so renounced to your role as a form of sub-polity, and become a form of servantry. I have for so no comments. Remember that our bodies are policed and surveilled, and every movement of yours is political, in as much as it is circumscribed under a system-territory of polity.


I have tons of issues about disruptance, and relevance, and none of them fall into a neat category, as blood falls from your lips, after having hard-core sex. Believe me, it happens, and it sounds better than it goes (go to the lo0- self-check).


This is not a call for Autonomy, but for a RENEGOTIATION of the terms in which your life is atificially regulated beyond what might be called the Natural, PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
As if...something as such existed.

Someone might have told you. Evolution or Revolution. But I claim no revolutionary claims in my thoughts. I claim for the acknowledgment of the independece of the Imaginary to be able to act upon the miserable world in which we encounter our bodies to be locked. As if the perfect curves of your but, were going to be replaced by Picasso's pointy corners, which cannot cause anything but harm, or ego-harm. Buy yourself a Razor to trim your calamities, they might have been growing a bit too long.

Time will decipher the tales of your life in blowing dust, and all these grayness will not be beared by the unbelieving eyes of domination, which tend to control, to restrain, those wills of the hoping subjects. Please extend your legs beyond polity, and certainly politeness. You don't want to become another Madonna. Petrified, standing still, in front of the eyes of Men. Those Who Never Existed, and used to wank in your college Dorm, door closed.


I can't end this Tale, without saying that this is no reality, for anything becomes real as long as its been projected into the realm of the conscious. That which is unconscious find expression in the gaps of language, the w459i34[5 of the screen. No more or Less, just enough to scare.

[Little by Little You'll Get to Cleanse Yourself]

[Renewal Is To Be Alive, Forms of Subtraction, Accumulation and Preservation Are Practices of The Living Dead, of The Conservative Class]

[Make Sure You Buy Yourself A Gas Holder To Burn All That You Keep To Yourself]

[Being True To Yourself Means Cutting the Cord]

Understanding Derivatives

[A TAXONOMY OF THE INTERNET]

IF the Right To The City is been chopped of, we might as well, in all patheticness, take over the Internet.

[LOW LEVELS OF SUBTRACTION, DIRECT MEANS OF ACTION]

[FIRST AND FOREMOST, SPIT THE CHEWING GUM IF YOU HAVEN'T DONE SO ALREADY]

Client Brief

(1) Do what you are asked for

(2) Make sure you understood what you were asked for

 (2.1) Make sure you are not providing perceived further solutions to seemingly requested, but not  stated needs. Never agree to the non-obvious, always state the obvious.

(3) Proceed accordingly, making sure you have understood the Brief (aka God)

[WHY MIGHT YOU WANT TO FEAR YOUR CLIENT?]

(1) The delivery of a Project, is a two way conversation, in which you give, take back, perform, and reform.

(2) This mimics the dynamic of any University Architecture Studio, but with a slight difference; the client has the final say, and is much more direct in his requests. The talk is not conceptual anymore, but about specific items that need to be delivered.

(3) For this reason production is no about making it to the deadline, but being prepared with material that is admittedly processual.

(4) Communication with the Client is vital, and by all means needs to be free-flow, free-glow. And by this I mean that you need to be concise and precise.

[PHYSICAL IS ALWAYS MORE ATTRACTIVE]

(1) The Client always hopes to get physical, hes hoping to have a solution now, to fix the hinge of the door with a bitta' oil, and he hopes it to work. You should then be prepared. 

[TWO IS MULTITUDE, ONE IS SOLITUDE]

(1) We live in a apparently hyper-connected society, here in the developed World. You need to be able to deliver both in physical and digital, and they both need to respond to the necessities of the corresponding mediums. 

(2) Therefore, no one wants to be alone, or be seen alone, if you Boss is going to talk to you he is seeking a conversation, you need to be full of options. We have entered a Milieu of choice.

[LEAVE THE ROOM ELEGANTLY]

(1) The client needs to feel that you have been a problem solver, or a good catch up. You need to make sure he is wanting to see you again, and best if its soon. 

(2) The performative role of presenting work (immaterial labor) is as important as the food on the plate. Make sure that your moves are exuberant if you are being filmed (they want a show), and that your material speaks this very same language (here is where you are up for examination in terms of conceptualisation/realisation/documentation/presentation)

(3) A cheerful see ya' soon! always helps.

hehe
all by me. You better quote me

Better to Live, than to be dead alive.

Date: 17/11/2014
Time: 18:00:00
Venue: Lecture Hall

UniversalAssemblyUnit produces projects that focus on the topics of space and digital storytelling in an age of multi-platformed, hyperlinked experiences. The label "space animation" aims to communicate visual content in the form of digitally augmented physical spaces. Their talk will focus on the reasons behind setting up their own practice and their trajectory from architectural education to working in digital arts and production.
UniversalAssemblyUnit was formed by AA graduates Oliviu Lugojan-Ghenciu (AADipl2011), Samantha Lee (AADipl2012), William Gowland (AADipl2013) and Zhan Wang (AADipl2014). Together they explore projects at the nexus of technology, arts and spatial practice. Recent projects have included live visuals and stage production at the Royal Festival Hall and Barbican Theatre, a series of 3d scanned fashion editorials for Tank Magazine, and web based projects that explore interactive digital landscapes.



Date: 25/11/2014
Time: 18:00:00
Venue: Lecture hall

The 20th century taught us that utopian thinking can have precarious consequences, wagering the fate of mankind on the uncertain outcome of grand intellectual speculations. But, if the course of history is dialectic, what follows? Does the 21stcentury mark the absence of utopias? Isn’t that equally dangerous, if not more?


What are the risks of realism? What ensues in the wake of an almost universal realization that what is good and what works are not necessarily the same? What are the dangers of a world that embraces a definitive divorce between what is just and what is effective?


Reinier de Graaf is a partner of OMA. He directs the work of AMO, the research and design studio established as a counterpart to OMA’s architectural practice. De Graaf has taught research studios at Strelka, The Berlage Institute, and is currently a Visiting Critic at PennDesign, the graduate program at the University of Pennsylvania.

Things I found interesting from the Antwerp School


Standard optional subjects in English

• Paper events. Het kunstenaarsboek als alternatieve ruimte/ The Artist's Book as Alternative Space - Johan Pas - (3 credits) NL-ENG
• Beeld en beeldcultuur / Image and Visual Culture - Hans Theys - (3 credits) NL-ENG
• Performance in beeldende en podiumkunsten / Performance in visual arts and theater - Thomas Crombez - (3 credits) NL-ENG

Masterclass
4 — All Animals Are Equal But Some Are More Easy To Catch And More Delicious To Eat.
Brecht Vandenbroucke
inhoud
Who is the boss? Who has the power? What are the rules? Do you accept
the money? What are you fears? Do you feel beaten down? Do you trust
the police? Are you outraged? Do you put it on your twitter? Do you use
the hashtag and join the conversation? Do you read the news? How many
different sources? Who defines the truth? Is the Bible right? Is the Koran
right? Is Charles Darwin right? Is Martha Stuart right? Was George Orwell
right? Are all animals equal? Is freedom just another word for nothing left
to lose? Does underground exist in an instant-digital-world? Can you keep
a secret? From google? Is it good to keep secrets and mysteries for your own
advantage? How many pictures of you did other people put on the internet?
How many likes did they get? How many followers do you have? Can we
express ourselves if we all have the same facebook lay out? Does your
mother know best? Do you eat meat? Can art bring change? What change?
Visually? Mentally? In galleries and museums? Do you think a master arts
degree will help you find a job? Are your teachers telling you what’s right
and whats wrong? Do you listen?
Question the powers that be. How far can you go? Fear, outrage, anger or
frustration; does it lead to chaos and confusion? An attempt to create from
critical and reactionary thinking
or
23 — The read and the unreadable
Bas Rogiers



Graphic visualisations
http://nodebox.net/



Thesis
Obv. enviro+critical praactice+cultural theory+urbanism+performance+construction

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"Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking".- Albert Einstein

This I wanted to attend last year. They were suggested by my dissertation tutor. 
I find them very theoretically seductive, might you have appetite for some...

Lecture 5.  November 19, 6-8pm. PSH (New Academic Building) LG01.
The Long Journey to Self-Esteem: How Human Capital Blossoms

Lecture 6. January 28, 6-8pm. RHB Small Cinema
Thank You for Sharing: The Social Life of Human Capital

Lecture 7. March 11, 6-8pm. PSH (New Academic Building) LG01.
When Human Capital Rebels: The Case for Embracing Our Neoliberal Condition

Lecture 8. April 29, 6-8pm. PSH (New Academic Building) LG01. 
Investee Activism: Another Speculation is Possible 


Not sure whether the workshop is actually happening...
The first workshop will convene Jnuary 23nd in RHB 312 1-3pm.

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"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit".-Aristotle

My brother and my sister...Don't speak to me; but I don't blame them. I don't blame them.

My brother and my sister...Don't speak to me; but I don't blame them. I don't blame them.

My brother and my sister...Don't speak to me; but I don't blame them. I don't blame them.

[Blake]

My brother is nonexistent...Don't speak to me; but I don't blame them. I don't blame them.

My brother is nonexistent...Don't speak to me; but I don't blame them. I don't blame them.

My brother is nonexistent...Don't speak to me; but I don't blame them. I don't blame them.

[Blake]

My brother's nonexistent...go cross on me; but I don't lame them. I don't lame them.

My brother's nonexistent...go cross on me; but I don't lame them. I don't lame them.

My brother's nonexistent...go cross on me; but I don't lame them. I don't lame them.

[Blake]

May be this is too anticlimactic to go on. Bur I have just read Radical Cities and I feel exasperated. I have been hoping for a bright future of cohesion...Reality is no such.

Yes, there's the mess, and cohesion is discourse based. To talk is not to walk, as it is not to.

Begin and being waiting, is a situation in which you would like not to be. It is true that I was been lied, and sold a paradigm of masculinity to hike the mountain of glory. As it very clearly says in risk assessment forms; which is the highest risk? Climbing and finding your calamities.

Poetry is long dead, as long as the population finds no refuge in words, and yet words can construct the biggest lies. As Latour would have said, or so I believe, is that one of the biggest tasks of humanity is to remember itself that it has never existed, but that its a construct to itself. We have brave people ready to relinquish their present in favor of a brighter future...But what happens when the light has run out of power. Light will be then one of the most extraordinary moments to witness.

I believe not in Pain. And yet I am full of bleeding wounds.  It is important to state that we live in no vacuum, still, we believe in the self-made man. 

There's a limit to your love...

[Blake]

If this is a stream of consciousness, I have to admit that it flows. I would like to believe that the riverbed is no mold, and that as water I can run free. Delusion.

I also have to admit that I wanted to believe that the men in the corner would give me their hand in case I needed help. Cynical.

I found they stepped on me with their bike, threatening me to flatten me into a two dimensional plane of shame. I must say I want not to become a pane. Alvaro is left the Country

[Can I have a break here?]

I can understand no longer what Blake is saying in this song...

Maybe you wanted to restore to OkCupid to avoid socio-economical determinism. You have then given yourself to algorithmic determinism. And it works. You might now praise your newfound reality. I have for so, no condoms left.

late.

Just before I got lost you said, I have constantly overstepped never be on the wall. On the back of the cartoon closer, and the blue TV skin. I drove to CanadaaAAAAA. Your face gets twice, Holy Wineee! You can drink a case of you darling, I would still be on my feet. I'm lonely painter, along a box of paints...Devil

[Blake]

Maybe it's no easy to write in this state of mind. But its difficult not to confound the song and reality. There might be there no binary. Difficult task to undo oneself. To recover the child deep inside. The cavernous past has long runaways which is difficult to trial. I have for so, no words. 

I like Cage's idea, that reality might speak for myself. But then, as the right-wing-on-top-of-the-game might wonder as to why the dissolution of the self. I have for so no answer. I cannot vocalize reality in a way that is both satisfactory and appealing. It is for so a form of Art-Tis-Try. A new brand of skin sensitive cosmetics. But how then, avoid the space of corporate life.

Please fold down...For the cos-s-s-s-down. Press in you testion-down. To be hold. Please. Crease your praise, tell him lies. That you are not on your own...OOhh watching this. Faith in pray. I see yoursmmm.

[Blake]

end of music.

I wouldn't go as far as to say that this borrows anything from Jane Rendell's Golden/Helvetica speech, I am not even claiming there was one. All that I was hoping to say, has been rightfully so, been said.

xoxo

Edit(ion)>Deconstruction>(re)Arrangement>(re)Construction

Reimagining architectural audiences

You might be thinking then; what does it mean to reimagine the audiences of architecture?

My first feeling is that there is a consumerist logic to it. Meaning, there is a product, and an audience for it. Instead I would like to think of the audience as the inhabiting body, that circulates within. We are still in a problematic relationship, since the audience might not be experiencing an architecture, a space or a structure. We have to conclude that audience sits very close to spectatorship, and therefore eyes consume an architecture, space or a structure visually. It is roughly speaking, a consumption of data for the creation of new sensibilities, or expansion of awareness. Your environment is in fact designed, regulated and administered, which might not sound like a novelty, but the fact that you might be able to intervene opens new avenues of action, and creativity.

This act of opening up is what addresses the idea of imagination, and is subsequent reimagination. For so we need a present situation (now) and a projected (near) future. It is a projective activity that reworks the existing critically...and ups! I have accidentally dropped the word critical. I will define this word as the ability of the analysis of the existing (performed by individual(s) to perform changes that are perceived and thought to be for the better. This I cannot further explain here, so I will continue with architecture.

Architecture meaning, the inhabitation or use of space and the implications steaming from this use. This again I cannot explain further here.

There is one primordial factor missing here, which underlays my thinking and the posing of this question. (1) Is that this  audience has the potential of becoming a participant in the creation and the establishing of this sensitivity. (2) Is that these transformations, when I talk audience, imply a sense of collectivity. I would love to delve into the differences between a Collective and a Multitude. But I would set for Collective for now. (3) Is that this permutating mode of sensitivity, means that it gets altered by the collective action of its components (i.e. individuals). This permutation of the self through collective means is what I would call subjectivation, which is by no means my thinking (refer to Deleuze or Virno or any writer that deals with psychoanalysis). (4) Last but not least, the implementation of a space that allows for these readings to evolve, means that if the location of this space manages to gather people from different backgrounds, and perspectives, the space widening its user base, the audience would not be only the architect, the scholar, the historian, but rather the pedestrian. What would happen then if these subjects face each other, for the creation of new discursive modes, or paths of exploration, on a collective mode?

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I am currently working in the development of a piece of writing about What does to practice architecture critically mean. For so I am currently undergoing a literature review*, in which I explore the interpretations of the word critical in conceiving this aspect as a defining element in design-led work, which not necessarily follows the patronage model, i.e. A private client approaching a service provider; the Architect, but examples in which the idea of a critical practice enables new modes of operation within the discipline of architecture in relation to new audiences, or forms of patronage.




*(What is a literature review?The aim of a literature review is to show your reader that you have read, and have a good grasp of, the main published work concerning a particular topic or question in your field.)

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Hi, yes, still learning...exorcising the self in me...unlearning...

On approaching people there are a couple of things you need to know...

One is what do you have to OFFER

What do you want to get BACK

HOW?/WHY? interchangeably

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Adjusting your head-workings to become part of the labor force. 

And it is difficult not to, since not working is reviled. We adhere so much value to work, that it is difficult to imagine any sort of post-work society.    

I enjoy Jiddu Krishnamurti in its intensity, as I do any philosopher that touches upon subjectivity (Freud, Deleuze, Guattari, Virno, etc.) The morale of the working class is absolutely skewed, since it competes against itself in seeking the obtention of an artificial poll of goods. 

Wether it is an oligarchy or not, I don't care, but it its clear that it is a rule/comfort of a few, wearing the clothes of a Democracy.

My point here, is that the only way to promote meaningful change, is by changing and by challenging static subjectivities, which they never are in any case.

I hold the belief that deconstruction is a beneficial act, but critique is not enough, and reconstruction, or the posing of alternatives is necessary. The market cannot regulate our thinking, since it is after all, cultural, and by consequence, artificial (i.e. manmade).

Still, you might be asking...Why should anyone adjust their heads in order to become part of the labour force? or to put it bluntly, why does anyone have to change the way they think to find a job?

Easy. And the University is a fertile ground in finding what stands as academic, and what stands for Industry.

My understanding of Academia, is the furthering of knowledge for clarity. Not Knowledge for the sake of Knowledge, but knowledge that helps us understand the workings of things. In this endeavour, you might want to be like, hey! Not only I want to understand how an Aspirin works, but I'd love to find alternative ways to produce them, so they have less secondary effects... Then you might think that becoming a biochemist its worthwhile, and that your vocation is to improve peoples lives. 

Surely, any advancement in the production of drugs will be welcomed by the industry, but imagine for a moment that the scenario is different. What if most of the Aspirin consumers in the world, had to take them due to their long working hours? Then you realise that maybe, policy making may be better for you, or even becoming a politician, to make sure regulations on working ours are fair, etc. 

Your endeavour is no longer based on any particular industry, but requires a wider view of the issue. Improving, or working for good, it is not the same as problem solving, which is what they thought me at school. It was nevertheless, always interested in the question itself.

For so, in our current job market, and specifically in the creative field, innovation stands for creative problem-solving. My contention here, is that we need to rework the questions. 

Adjusting your head to the market, means you are happy to abide to what you are being asked to do, to engage uncritically. This might sound too grand, or arrogant, but when encircled by a disciplinary boundary, it sounds reasonable to dispose your expertise critically. This though, might come at the cost of producing conflicts of interest.

In my case, I have seen a lot of architecture practices that engage in the creation of objects, and by that I mean, marketable objects with the implications this arises. This means that the architectural labor force, not only has to produce material which is valid, but it needs to stand out amongst this ocean of validity. This is not only problem solving, but competition, and many offices have jumped in the vertiginous race to attract clientele, without questioning their programs or consequences of their schemes. Easy.

For becoming a successful architect nowadays, it takes a lot of expertise, not only architectural, which we might think of as the production of designs, or designs-to-build, but promotional, technological, and social. This proves that architecture doesn't live in a vacuum, and it is not, therefore autonomous as a practice, or discipline. This I know is contentious, but I believe to be true.

If your interest as a creative, is to problem solve creatively, I think this is an ambitions enough proposal. But I'd like to ask you, as well, whether you'd be up for the challenge, of not only producing solutions, but also challenging the way in which the very society-machine formulates these sets of questions, implements them, and perpetuates them. I encourage any reader to engage in the production of (critical) alternatives to the existing modes of architectural conception, which I believe to be, in their majority, outdated, and with a still, Feudal-sort-of-mind. 

I hope this does't sound too pretentious, or fallacious. I will try to develop this ideas further in the future, hopefully by practice as well, which is my ultimate goal, for words have no meaning when they only glow as dark pixels on your screen, if they do not after all, alter your brain-neuron-structure.

All in All,

xoxoxoox

"If I can make more money flipping burgers instead of working as an architectural intern, then it seems like something is seriously wrong."-disheartened, Dezeen comment

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We do not act "rightly" because we are "excellent",
in fact we achieve "excellence" by acting "rightly".”― Plato