The articulation of crises & the inherent responsibility of architecture form-language to address & care for the needs of the suffering city demonstrates the imposition of an external will forming that language into its own oppressive formulations.

The mechanical/mechanizing metaphor is the same such incidence, imposing over creative-chaotic complexities of natural flows a systematized reductive abstract functionalism which dampens its potential resonance & inhibits our capacity to glean emergent shifts in form, material, process, & integration. The mathematical calculating clarity of science in a perpetrator of this narrowing of vision - even while claiming to expand focus through technical fidelity & models of nested scales, visualized patterns of simulated complexity, & atomized color-coded diagrams of "life" - diagrams are definitively reductive & intended to transmit essentialized information but should not be confused for the world itself. The world is not mathematics, there is no zero-sum line drawn around the void save for the rigid brick & mortar flood gates we impose upon it & always these strategies carry along with them the infectious terrors of their power hungry inventors. All straight roads lead home & home is Rome, the war machine. We contrast the methods of Plato & Aristotle, but what about Socrates? In my opinion we should all walk around with no shoes in, shower less & ask more questions, exercise our freedoms by sitting at any table, taking care not to eat or drink too much, never proclaiming to know anything about anything while in the same breath declaring absolute knowledge-wisdom in the practice of love, love becoming seemless with the pursuit of life itself, to remain hysterical in the incessant asking of questions with feet firmly rooted upon the terra firma of existence.

This architecture, this form-language, is far from perfect in its application and is riddled with problems, inherited shortcomings of the exercised metaphors, mechanisms, and mimesis of human invention, but to dwell on these imperfections is to miss a great point of potential: exercises in the reversal of perspective, to transpose the wet & malleable unfurling of natural systems upon our coarse logical substrate, to seize the opportunity to reconfigure our orientation to material & manufacturing towards empathetic, self-organizing, responsive, emergent models before it's too late.

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Seminar reading group presentations:

Timeaus: descriptions of primary forms existing in nested hierarchical structures as a state of essential equilibrium, idealized solids perfectly suspended within homogenous substrates, orbiting through circular orbit around a central core, a movement forever spreading through a discursive chain of reactions. 2 worlds: inner reason & outer opinion combining into the soul: intelligence into the soul then the soul into the body. 4 primary elements designated by 4 primary shapes: triangulated tetrahedron = fire/light, sight! Without sight there is no existence, through vision we create order not for pleasure but in order to organize chaos towards a transcendental ideal: we see something & must name it.

Cube = the most stable, earth

Pyramid/tetrahedron = fire

Icosahedron= air

Dodecahedron = 12 sides of the zodiac, model for the entire universe

The harmonic organization between things - space - idealized as the golden ratio.

Idealized forms floating overhead.

The foundation of the triangle: the part that is + the part without + the Part between which is of essence.

All material components must be used, unique to that form, perfectly spherical as though spun upon a lathe.

The articulation of the cube as a primary act of colonization, to lay claim to the articulation of the territory thereby gaining ownership of those domains: spiritual predestination & the foundation of the humanist tradition.

Metaphysical distinction between lumens & lux: lux being light in its source whereas lumen is reflected or irradiated light. Lux as a simple being & lumen as a spiritual body.

The body of primary consistent homogenous form is the fundament with its whole being completely actualized, diffuses light to the center of the universe, naturally multiplying from the first lux - itself inseparable from matter. Through the passing there is no division: travels directly from the infinite point of originary light (lux).

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20th century world models:

Wittgenstein's reading of the rabbit/duck as the ambiguous figure of language.

"The great Maafa (sp?)" Swahili description of triangulated unity "umoja".

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20th century psyche:

Winnicott: transitional objects, the self as a composite transitional zone transporting between 2 states, defining states of apperception and proprioception, delimiting parameters of possible illusion as a natural route of grouping (common illusory experiences). First emotional/transitional object named "ba".

The space where cultural experience is located is between the individual and the environment. Where are we when we are spending the majority of our time, specifically experiencing pleasure? It's a variable space.

Finite & infinite games: meant to be won vs. meant to extend the potential of playing. Finite players play within boundaries, infinite players play with boundaries.

Machine intelligence: "deceptively simple" & always infused with human affect, synthetic models of natural selection based on artificially choreographed scenarios of competition. There are thresholds of machine awareness/responsiveness, akin to the various speeds of horse trots, aristocracy efflorescence of attention towards a target of experience. Human exclusion zones: designed for the use of robots in which human presence is an interference. Human/robot exclusive environments. "Intelligent behavior does not equal intelligence." = implying artificial intelligence surpasses not just human ability but definition/conception. Universal Adversarial Perturbations: visual patterns which confused visual sensing algorithms, instilling confusion in recognition to make the CPU think it is observing another object.

Haraway: Feminism & Technoscience: 'hyper' as a space-time modality

"Infidel glossolalia"

'On Growth & Form' 1917

Maximum entropy is the ultimate release of difference.

PB: "There are standing waves, there are underlying resonances, so that not all will degrade to dust."