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Becoming Digital
Editors Ellie Abrons, Nick Axel, McLain Clutter, Adam Fure, Nikolaus Hirsch
Contributors Mark Jarzombek, Molly Sauter, Ramon Amaro, Curtis Roth, Urtzi Grau, Guillermo Fernández-Abascal, Luke Caspar Pearson, Eyal Weizman, James Bridle, Mollie Claypool, and more…

The modernist urgency of integration has evolved from sun, air, transportation, and advanced construction techniques to search histories, precarious labor contracts, machine learning, and burnout remedies. Today the digital is ambient, environmental. It is a dull hum that emanates from every corner of our increasingly constructed world, constituting the material, conceptual, and experiential context of any architectural project.

Becoming Digital is a collaboration between e-flux Architecture and Ellie Abrons, McLain Clutter, and Adam Fure of the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning.

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Boxed In: The Aesthetics of Material Circulation
Laida Aguirre
Contemporary life is sustained by the mediums and networks of global supply chains and logistics. As they infiltrate everything from our material land...
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Some Notes on Making Images with Computers
Zeina Koreitem
For some time now, our practice, MILLIØNS has been studying and experimenting with something that we have called, somewhat vaguely and informally, “co...
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Discrete Automation
Mollie Claypool
The digitization of the contemporary world enables even the farthest reaches of our planet to be connected with relative ease and be transformed by de...
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Phenological Mismatch
James Bridle
“Attention,” a voice began to call, and it was as though an oboe had suddenly become articulate. “Attention,” it repeated in the same high, nasal mono...
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Open Verification
Eyal Weizman
More than a decade ago, I would have found the idea of a forensic institute to be rather abhorrent. Coming from the field of left activism and critica...
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From Superstudio to Super Mario
Luke Caspar Pearson
Many contemporary videogames are inherently architectural, dealing with the depiction of constructed space and actions that take place within it. Beyo...
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Learning to live together
Urtzi Grau and Guillermo Fernández-Abascal
The curb is a simple demarcation between two spaces: the roadway and the sidewalk. While their origin had little to do with transport, they became ubi...
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Software Epigenetics and Architectures of Life
Curtis Roth
An End User Undertaking (EUU) is an agreement proffered by software manufacturers and signed by the representatives of software consumers that codifie...
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As if
Ramon Amaro
Shapeshifting In 2016, Joy Buolamwini, a researcher with the Civic Media group at the MIT Media Lab and founder of Code4Rights, developed the Aspir...
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City Planning Heaven Sent
Molly Sauter
A shining city on a hill Cities of dreams have a long history. Utopia as a literary form dating from the reign of King Henry VIII is more than the ...
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Digital Post-Ontology
Mark Jarzombek
Discussing who we are in the digital age is no easy task. Everyone and their grandmother, so to speak, has an opinion. But to call in data experts is ...
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Editorial
Ellie Abrons, Nikolaus Hirsch, Adam Fure, McLain Clutter, and Nick Axel
Becoming Digital is a collaboration between e-flux Architecture and Ellie Abrons, McLain Clutter, and Adam Fure of the Taubman College of Architecture...
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Category
Data & Information, Technology, Labor & Work
Subject
Automation, Algorithms, Representation

Becoming Digital is a collaboration between e-flux Architecture and Ellie Abrons, McLain Clutter, and Adam Fure of the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning.

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