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The Architecture of Continuity: Essays and Conversations

Lars Spuybroek - 2008 - Architecture - Limited preview
"That buildings are made of elements doesn't mean that architecture should be based on elementarism; on the contrary, we should strive for an architecture of continuity that fuses tectonics with textile, abstraction with empathy, and matter with ...

NOX: Machining Architecture

Lars Spuybroek - 2004 - Architecture - No preview available
A comprehensive exploration of the methods and techniques behind the digital architecture of NOX studio discusses the impact of technology on the creator's experimental works, documenting twenty-three key projects as surveyed in the essays of ...

The Thinking Hand: Existential and Embodied Wisdom in Architecture

Juhani Pallasmaa - 2009 - Architecture - No preview available
In our current global networked culture that puts so much emphasis on the virtual and the visual, the mind and the body have become detached and ultimately disconnected. Though physical appearance is idolised for its sexual appeal and its social ...

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - 2009 - Psychology - No preview available
“Csikszentmihalyi arrives at an insight that many of us can intuitively grasp, despite our insistent (and culturally supported) denial of this truth. That is, it is not what happens to us that determines our happiness, but the manner in which we ...

Human-Machine Reconfigurations: Plans and Situated Actions

Lucille Alice Suchman - 2007 - Computers - Limited preview
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Phenomenology of Perception

Maurice Merleau-Ponty - 2002 - Philosophy - Limited preview
Challenging and rewarding in equal measure, Phenomenology of Perception is Merleau-Ponty's most famous work. Impressive in both scope and imagination, it uses the example of perception to return the body to the forefront of philosophy for the ...

What Computers Still Can't Do: A Critique of Artificial Reason

Hubert L. Dreyfus - 1992 - Computers - Limited preview
When it was first published in 1972, Hubert Dreyfus's manifesto on the inherent inability of disembodied machines to mimic higher mental functions caused an uproar in the artificial intelligence community. The world has changed since then. Today ...

Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action, and Cognitive Extension

Andy Clark - 2008 - Philosophy - Limited preview
When historian Charles Weiner found pages of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman's notes, he saw it as a "record" of Feynman's work. Feynman himself, however, insisted that the notes were not a record but the work itself. In Supersizing ...

Natural-Born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies, and the Future of Human Intelligence

Andy Clark - 2003 - Computers - Limited preview
From Robocop to the Terminator to Eve 8, no image better captures our deepest fears about technology than the cyborg, the person who is both flesh and metal, brain and electronics. But philosopher and cognitive scientist Andy Clark sees it ...