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This is also an experiment in abbreviation, and an experiment in using current issues as inroads to themes normally requiring lengthy argument.
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Quantum Internet How architecture keeps its secrets Seven secrets Secret architecture Secret society Secrets of the lodge Camouflaged incitement Fighting words Crypto-conspiracy CryptoArt 101 Decryptopolis Deplatformed Filter variables What’s the use of variables? Unclear thinking Secret norms Place is the code Permeable portals Parallel worlds Hidden dimensions How to fail at populism High energy supstition Counting letters Speech to text II V I and all that jazz What’s popular What comes next Hidden beats Is blogging obsolete? Visitor rhythms Tremble and drift Visualising 2d discrete cosine transforms Rhythmanalysis Beyond average DCT for architects The culture of the GIF Subliminal messaging Hiding one surface inside another Ornament and crime Steganography for architects How to hide one picture inside another Urbanise rasterise Less is more: Signatures, cities and hash codes Crypto-sceptics Beware of this message What a calamity! Too cool for video Architecture post-COVID Living with virions [and Ro] COVID couture Patholopolis The third great confinement Pandi noir Quarantine and geometry China’s oceans of everyday data The dissimulated city Write me a city Flightless cars Digital cash 101 Pseudo-crypto currencies The future of prediction Shock and plunder Surveillance capitalism and its discontents Sociable encryption: The secret of the five keys Glitch demons Whispirators — In praise of whispers Dark whisperers The pleasures of the mouth The word on the street Perspecticide Bulk data collection and privacy Offensive media The smart of the deal Nested parentheticals The platformization of cultural labour Recursion again Recursive cities Getting what he deserves What’s wrong with gamification? Gamification 101 Wood-wide web Is it getting harder to be good? I am not a statistic! Obfuscation and its remedies Too much information Obfuscate! A thousand insides Forked paths City on a hill Hacking the unicursal labyrinth Unicursality Infinite souq Hacking the city of the future The twist of the pen Don’t go into the crypt! Apocalypse then The twist Escapology 101 The treehouse The lion and the jackal Africa calling: How to say a lot with a little Wild signs (Africa edition) Eliminate the impossible Riddle of the Sphinx Unlocked Architecture’s pragmatic turn Tags and codes Trash talk One knock for yes two for no Everything is code A life of crime Breaking and entering Executive secrets Improper arrangements Iconophobia No interpreter required The immoveable typist The memory wheel Architecture and espionage Organic cyberwars Families and crime: Kompromat 102 Individual-1: Kompromat 101 Enter title here Millennials and Morals Second Life revisited Disintegrated intelligence AI revisited Secret listening: Private, personal, portable podcasts This man has a sign A word in your ear: Podcasting for introverts Haze Stupid postmodernism What a mess! Bad players Deviant play Just Google it: Netnography in practice The death of a public life Fade to black: LiDAR in the age of extinction Weaponise! Rogue fan fiction: the peculiar case of QAnon Least commitment principle Hustle, twitter, bells and banter Cooperation and complicity Translate me Rhematic architecture Full indexical jacket You can fool all the people some of the time Undisciplinarity Whatever works Indexical architecture On being a detective Whatever happened to reality? Signs in architecture and music What’s wrong with iconic architecture Invisible icons Challenges of the sharing economy Elect a clown; expect a circus Hermeneutics and logic Speak truth to power A brief history of signs What is pansemiotics? When is a building like a bang? What post humanists want Four-fold reality Hunch, symptom, clue Shadow of a doubt Inside out logic Marx on nonsense Nonsensical signs Diagrammatics 101 Peirce decoded The power of ten What does a theory look like? Triadomania Semiotic shock Index fever Calculating belief Climate change and doubt Cracks and flaws Pointlessness On being clear and distinct AI and advertising What’s wrong with the sharing economy Troll farming Encrypted city Romancing the blockchain Share city How smart are smart contracts? Sign here …………………… Decode this An anti-hacker puzzle Why hackers have to work hard Immutable data Dark web anonymity The sarcophagus at the end of the Anthropocene Postcard from Chernobyl Wasting time in the bit economy Is the Internet really evil? Digital money Is it ok to cite web pages in academic writing Fake followers Reverse analytics Outsiders What’s wrong with accelerationism In bad taste Politics as art Emotional targeting Automatic writing Reverse image search Armchair postmodernism You have reached your destination Brainwalks End of nature “Deconstructing” the curriculum Less of one and more of the other Inmate takes over the asylum Network Nature Garage labs and biohacks Extreme tweeting for professionals Unaugurate No retreat: 360 video and the visible camera operator The dark net wilderness Biocentrism The biolingual architect Slime and goo Lifeless architecture Archi-memes Are humans just machines for propagating tweets? What is nature for? Web of nature Self-reliance and the accessorised self The end of DIY Your post-human descendants are simulating you What does architecture represent? What’s the point of symbols? Whatever happened to architectural semiotics? On being unbalanced Is 360 degree video more real? Is post-truth politics a thing? The magic circle What happens when the machine stops? The well tempered intellectual Nature as the site of hermeneutical play Digital “detox” Video game semiotics Pokémon Go versus Ingress Biosemiotics Machine genomics Only design will save Europe’s future The great debate debate Shakespeare on nature Forests that think There’s an app for that Reading the book of nature One with nature Nature in retrospect Smarter surfaces Mixed feelings What’s wrong with postmodernism Sentient spaces Nature games Champions of the Anthropocene Goodbye Holocene How to be interesting Cute and cuddly The best there is Evaluating the flipped classroom Flipped classroom 103: Engagement Flipped classroom 102: What a performance! Flipped classroom 101 Animating spirits Thinking naturally Shape-shifting architecture Trauma and fauna The wisdom of animals Is cyberspace real? Unnatural acts What’s wrong with the force Cover up Testing ethical acuity The hermeneutical intractability of Asimov’s three laws of robotics How to make a case out of a post How animals make us think Stupidities (Why cartoons have animals 3) Wonders exposed Like this AI and imagination Big corpus Post-digital humanities Refugees have smartphones too Big Data: a non-theory about everything Big data metaphysics What’s wrong with post-digital cultures Am I post-digital? When did we become post-digital? Indexcess The enormous fly wheel Best intentions How geometry aids recollection Blood lines The empathy bus Attending to the world How to grow a project Bear in the park A sudden prospect Aha moments Frustration The Internet as research tool Introducing hermeneutics to an architectural audience Natural enemies Interactive architecture Milking human kindness Copy edits Divided cities Design hermeneutics revisited What have the arts to do with ethics? Academic writing and publishing online Brand melancholy Poiēsis Nature and the city Remaking the city Making nature Windowphilia Profoundly bored Against empathy The animal within Rich media overload Vertigo on a stick The singularity paradox The big book of hermeneutics Unsuccessful failure The hook Even more radical pedagogy After dark Emotional labourers Good morning melancholia Losing it Writer’s block Do digital devices influence your mood? Nature versus smartphones Back of shop Social media help you to believe what you want to believe Looking backwards Eye contact Space dehomogenised Where does happiness happen? Emotional words What’s wrong with the digital humanities Emotional contagion Mood and movement (and dance) You are now free to move about the cabin What do maps do? Moods and movies A step up Zeitgeist busters Mood and movement (and trams) How bored is your dog? Time and tide wait for no one Born of the Earth Deconstruct that! Nature-deficiency disorder Refuge Go outside and play Why cartoons have animals 2 Music makes it better Life-changing technologies Unlocking nature’s secrets Moody atmospheres and electric auras The online scholar: A guide for PhD students Wet and wild Betwixt and between Humanities in the wild Turning the corner Gathered round the hearth Genius headgear Showing off What’s wrong with parametricism Architectural pragmatics Frequent feelings Morphic fields Enchanted places How to slow down time In meditative mood Voices without bodies The cult of the book The benefits of walking Feeling free in flight Why experts are better than algorithms What’s wrong with posthumanism Bad metaphors What I really meant to say Absence of melancholy Internet as evidence The hegemony of good taste Buying time Let’s play Art challenges life Derrida for stand-ups Melancholy urbanism Some wild life Signature city Cappuccino epidemic Pride of place Mastering the universe Freeways in the sky Howling at the moon Accentuate the negative As the mood takes you Digital mood modifiers I’m in the mood for love The past is a construct of the mind Why music reaches the parts that architecture can’t Delayed gratification Pros and cons of Google Scholar What’s wrong with the future Are you aware of your brain? Mood machines Soft fascination The melancholy medium Your inner child Well-being and geometry The brain in the city Oblivion Swinging Shallow reading Richard on the Holodeck Loose ends Pleasure with malice Is the high street ruining the Internet? The happy medium Ambient wit Interpretation by design Web of belief Lego logics What does it all mean? Old enough to know better Universities as interpretive communities Shōjo Manga morals Vitruvius does steampunk What’s a modem? Brand me Cooperation or complicity Manifestos and madness The bliss of ignorance Interpretive communities Making friends Bodies in motion Audience disengagement Spem in Alium Situationist International and the mood of the times We are all entertainers How the Internet kills curiosity Melancholy and media Mad crowds disease Unearthing the trickster function in Icelandic myth Maximum graphic Synesthesia anesthesia Crowdfunding in the gift society What’s wrong with this picture? Ambience on demand Heidegger and vertigo Nomadology and colour Intoxicated by colour Haunted by media Posh boys and mirror neurons Why cartoons have animals Exaggeration Bauhaus geek Data waste The eye of the beholder Urban occupy Conservative hermeneutics Architectural unconscious Mystery philosopher fakes own death What buildings want Panoptic man Circles and how to get out of them Le Corbusier’s error Meditation on a blunt instrument The opposite of architecture The reception of architecture Arboreal architecture gets wrong end of the stick Pictures devour reality Inconspicuous architecture Kim Jong-Il orz Countercultural values Why ask? Almost to infinity What has science got to do with it? After affects Sequel-baiting The quantification of the intellect Network notion Amnesiac machines 3D passive unrealities Accidental people De-generation Neuroscience eclipses AI Game noir Play anywhere What are audiences for? Portable memories No way logo Thought transfer A nation addicted to smartphones The secret life of games Phone hacking enigmas What were the skies like when you were young? E-motion LOL Security reproduces the trickster function Obliquitous computing Reality re-structured Computer-supported collaborative distraction All watched over by Ayn Rand I am Spartacus Against understanding Being practical This is not a hideout Digital metaphors and the baroque No-thing as it seems Now is the winter of our disconnect The Creosote Code Derrida for Architects (index) Hygienic reality Wicked problems revisited The sublime indifference of waves We are all multiples Architecture as the last fortress The king’s speech impediment Profile yourself (Narcissus on line) Otaku architecture Electronic commerce, philosophy and the Greek city Zero Stars Superlatives Walking the line Travel guidelines Silent night Chasing the line Making a noise Computer images and realism Derrida and WikiLeaks Brain Scans and Creativity Architectural remainder Architecture and Music Being David Hockney The Future is Unremarkable Transilience Hermeneutics and ethics Design-led research Research is a grey area Written any good books lately? Mass media schedules and generation Y Where is that sound? The Internet as hypertext or archive Tuning as …
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Structuralism in architecture: not a style but a tool for critique The one and the many AI article Architectural Theory Branded Meeting Places Branded Meeting Places Final Report Heidegger on technology Secrets of writing for the web Wired-Up Words Writing texts that flow Computers in Practice Report (PDF) Conference Proceedings: Universities as Interpretive Communities 1993 (PDF) Conference Proceedings: Gadamer, Action, Reason 1991 (PDF) MSc by Research in Digital Media and Culture
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