I’m reviewing my post of 22 March 2014 Moody atmospheres and electric auras (#188). I stand by the account of mood that started with that post and later developed into a book length treatment (Mood and Mobility: Navigating the Emotional Spaces of Digital Social Networks. MIT Press, 2016.). One point requires emphasis. The creation of…More
Category Archives: Artificial Intelligence
Guilty secrets
In my post of 15 March 2014 — The online Scholar: A guide for PhD students (#187) — I suggested a list of points for a researcher to consider as they integrate online media into their writing processes. I even ran a few workshops on the theme for our University’s Institute for Academic Development (IAD).…More
Gathered round the bath
The proto-architect Vitruvius described the importance of a clearing in the forest and the establishment of a fire around which people would gather for warmth and communion. The “hearth” established the siting and meaning of the “dwelling house,” and hence settlements and eventually towns and cities. I revisited that proposition in the recent post Life…More
What lies around the corner
I’m revisiting a sequence of three posts from February-March 2014: #184 Turning the corner, #185 Humanities in the wild, and #186 Betwixt and between. They each fit a theme that later informed the writing of my book Network Nature: The Place of Nature in the Digital Age, published in 2018. Whether in nature or architectural…More
Life by the fire
In 2014 some of us conducted experiments using an EEG headset for measuring brainwaves in human beings as they move through outdoor settings. Around that time I stumbled across a Star Trek episode called “Spock’s Brain.” I referenced the confluence between science fiction and emerging consumer-available neural headware in my post of 1 February 2014…More
Is anyone paying attention?
The ease with which I can be seen, heard and otherwise monitored has increased since January 2014. That was the arbitrary date of my post #180 titled Showing Off. Thanks to digital networks and displays it’s easy to put yourself “out there” as part of a strategy of personal presentation (e.g. as an online influencer),…More
Reverse parametrics
I’m revisiting my post of 18 January 2014 #179 What’s wrong with parametricism. As that post is ostensibly about computer-generated 3D building forms, it fits my previous reflections on AI generated photo-real static pictures and animated videos. See post Bohemian melancholy. Diffusion-based image generation can certainly generate images of 3D architectural forms. I uploaded one…More
Truth and image
I’ve reviewed my post of 11 January 2014 #178 Architectural pragmatics. In that post I rehearsed the argument that architectural theorists and practitioners need worry less about whether a particular philosophical position is correct than what difference its adherence makes to one’s actions. I’m thinking of Freud on concepts of the unconscious, Derrida on the…More
Bohemian melancholy
I’m following on from the post #177 Frequent feelings of 4 January 2014 with an illustration. There’s a private hotel-guesthouse on the outskirts of Kandy in Sri Lanka called Helga’s Folly. The owner (Helga De Silva Blow Perera) describes it on Booking.com as an “Anti Hotel Residence.” All the public rooms are packed with antique…More
The enchanted garden
I’m revisiting my post #176 Morphic fields 28 December 2013. In that I continued the theme of enchantment. One of the possibilities or byproducts of enchantment is that inert, inanimate objects bear the possibility that they are alive, similar to how human beings and animals are alive: statues come to life, trees salute you, a…More