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I borrow the expression “non-modern” from Bruno Latour. Bruno Latour, We Have Never Been Modern (Cambridge: Harvard University Press,1993), 48.

Bruno Latour, We Have Never Been Modern (Cambridge: Harvard University Press,1993), 48.

Cedric Price, Works II (London: Architectural Association, 1984), 18.

Cedric Price and HansUlrich Obrist, Re:CP (Birkhäuser Architecture, 1999), 64.

“Cedric Price Talks at the AA,” AA Files 19 (Spring 1990): 33

Christopher Alexander, “The City is not a Tree,” Architectural Forum, Vol. 122, No. 1 (April, 1965): 58–62 (Part I); and Vol. 122, No. 2 (May 1965): 58–62 (Part II).

Ibid.

Ibid.

Gilles Deleuze, Proust and Signs: The Complete Text, trans. Richard Howard (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000), 39.

“Interview with Bruno Latour: Decoding the Collective Experiment,” by María J. Prieto and Elise S. Youn, Agglutinations.com, July 05, 2004.(No longer available online.)

Gilles Deleuze, Foucault. translated by S. Hand. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1988), 37; and Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, “On Several Regimes of Signs,” A Thousand Plateaus (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987), 141-, 142.

Gilles Deleuze, “What is Dispositif?,” Michel Foucault: Philosopher (New York: Routledge, 1991), 160, 166.

Gregory Bateson, “Criteria of Mental Process 1-4,” Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity (New York: Dutton, 1979),"Criteria of Mental Process 1-4,” 109.

This argument is very careful to avoid modern pronoucements, preferring an inclusive position. For instance, Nicolas Bourriaud’s notion of “relational form” is sympathetic, as is his “altermodern” position. Still, this argument hopes to broaden the field in which it and similar notions can be applied. Nicolas Bourriaud, Relational Aesthetics (Paris: Les Presses du Réel, 2002).