Becoming Digital - e-flux

Editors Ellie Abrons, Nick Axel, McLain Clutter, Adam Fure, Nikolaus Hirsch

Contributors Mark Jarzombek, Molly Sauter, Ramon Amaro, Curtis Roth, Guillermo Fernández-Abascal, Urtzi Grau, 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.

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12 essays

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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....

Learning to live together

Guillermo Fernández-Abascal and Urtzi Grau

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Editorial

Ellie Abrons, Nick Axel, McLain Clutter, Adam Fure, and Nikolaus Hirsch

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

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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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Ellie Abrons, Nick Axel, McLain Clutter, Adam Fure, and Nikolaus Hirsch Editorial
Mark Jarzombek Digital Post-Ontology
Molly Sauter City Planning Heaven Sent
Ramon Amaro As if
Curtis Roth Software Epigenetics and Architectures of Life
Guillermo Fernández-Abascal and Urtzi Grau Learning to live together
Luke Caspar Pearson From Superstudio to Super Mario
Eyal Weizman Open Verification
James Bridle Phenological Mismatch
Mollie Claypool Discrete Automation
Zeina Koreitem Some Notes on Making Images with Computers
Laida Aguirre Boxed In: The Aesthetics of Material Circulation

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