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Double Bind: On Material Ethics
No full textGreen Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.OLD Architectural Theor
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Involutionary Architecture: Unyoking Coherence from Congruence
No full textBy focusing on the qualities of a posthumanist architectural practice inhis chapter 4, Andrej Radman continues the analysis of the genetic power ofaffective encounters begun by Iris van der Tuin in her opening chapter, and byJussi Parikka in his geophilosophical analysis of the emergent consequencesof constitutive relations for the operation of posthuman systems. Radmanargues that the recomposition of what Guattari refers to as ‘architecturalenunciation’ profoundly transforms the role of the architect, who becomes itsrelay by assuming the analytic and pragmatic responsibility for the productionnot merely of the environment, but of subjectivation itself. FollowingDeleuze’s Spinozism, and continuing the affective corporeal emphasis subsequently given to this in work by Brian Massumi, Radman suggests that if tothink differently one has to feel differently, and if the sole purpose of designis to change us, then architecture is effectively a ‘psychotropic practice’ thatmodulates and compels routines of experience.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.OLD Architectural Theor
GIBSONISM: Ecologies of Architecture
No full textThere is widespread commitment to indirect realism and reductionism among architects. As Robin Evans diagnosed, "we are landed not only with a picture theory of vision, but with a pervasive picture method of construction for manufactured objects as well." We see with our eyes, don't we? The answer is no. The founder of the ecological approach to perception insisted that we see with the eyes in the head on a mobile body supported by the ground, the brain being only the central organ of a complete visual system. The dissertation seeks to invigorate James Jerome Gibson's radical empiricism by exploring his unwitting affiliation with Gilles Deleuze's anti-representationalism.Delft School of DesignArchitectur
Deep Architecture: An Ecology of Hetero-Affection
No full textIn this chapter I explore the legacy of the American psychologist James Jerome Gibson, whose concept of affordance continues to stir controversy even among the scholars of the Ecological School of Perception. Gibson was well aware of the difficulties in challenging the orthodoxies that he himself admitted to have contributed to. His neologism, akin to Deleuzian affect, is a key element in the ecological theory of immediate perception that constitutes an alternative to the digital information-processing paradigm. It is not merely a new term. It is a new way of organising the logos which forces one to think and act politically. What it signifies is that a mode of existence never pre-exists an event and that not all potentiality is an accrued value. This is a bitter pill to swallow for all those suffering from the ‘Occidental disease of transcendence’, aka ‘interpretosis’, which manifests itself in the relentless search for a beyond that will ground and found or otherwise justify what there is. Truth and falsity cannot be considered values that exist outside of the constitutive problematic field that endows them with sense. The unproductive way to relate to bodies by way of interpretation has to give way to the hands-on intervention into the (quasi)causal fabric of reality.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Theory, Territories & Transition
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Generalised chromaticism: the ecologisation of Architecture
No full textThis tripartite article is devoted to the role of architectural heritage in the process of exo-somatisation or evolution by means other than life. The first part entitled 'Politics of Location' will provide a brief history of the Architecture Philosophy and Theory Group at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) to situate my position following the lesson of Donna Haraway's 'situated knowledges'. The second part entitled 'Affects Before Subjects' addresses transdisciplinary architectural research and education, where I will make a case for the kind of learning that starts with 'leading out' (educere), in response to Claire Colebrook's proposition: 'The word "education" comes from the root e from ex, out, and duco, I lead. It means a leading out. [E]ducation is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul'. After a call to debunk stereotypes, I will turn to concrete evidence of the affordance theory in practice through meta-modelling in the third and last part entitled 'Two Compasses, One World'. In the words of Reza Negarestani: 'Conception without praxis is unrealised abstraction and praxis without conception is a hollow impression of concreteness'.Theory, Territories & Transition
Architecture’s Allagmatics
No full textThe paper addresses the topic of architectural intelligence whose sole purpose is to create affordances and make experience ‘stand on its own’, apart from architecture and distinct from the architect. The principles of sensation constitute the principles of composition of an existential niche whose structure reveals the genetic conditions of real experience. The argument is unpacked across three sections by reference to the Simondonian concept of allagmatics defined as the theory of operations. The first section ‘Ticks and Cats’ argues in favour of inserting an interval between the input and output, with the aim of debunking the mechanicist allegiance to linearity and promoting the concept of quasi-causality. In the second section ‘Ducks and Rabbits’ the affordance theory meets contemporary neurosciences to revamp the concept of metastability and plasticity. Its goal is to reframe the subject as the effect of (architectural) affect. The concluding radical empiricist section ‘Zebras and Flies’ revisits the lesson of the Leibnizian Monadology to tie sense to sensibility and matter to manner. The overall ambition of the paper is to contest the philosophy of representation through the concept of difference and multiplicity
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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