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Medium Design
Keller Easterling
Art after culture. Just to say the simplest and most obvious thing: culture, in the broadest sense of the word, is good at pointing to things and naming them, but not so good at describing relationships between things. It privileges declarations, right answers, universals, and elementary particles. It is captivated by circular logics and modernist scripts that celebrate freedom and transcendent newness—narrative arcs that bend toward a utopian or dystopian ultimate.
e-flux Journal
Posted: February 6, 2020
Category
Design
Subjects
Consciousness & Cognition, The Enlightenment, Authoritarianism
Going Wrong
Keller Easterling
Architecture Essay
Posted: December 10, 2019
Category
Design
Subjects
Failure, Community, Accidents & Disasters, Games & Play
If You Are Lucky
Words by Keller Easterling / Illustrations by Meijia Xu
All eyes on: something familiarly strange and strangely familiar that can “dance the pony, hover like your mother, or slide along like a cold-blooded killer…”
e-flux Journal
Posted: November 15, 2018
Category
Language & Linguistics
Subjects
Animals, Biology, Optics & Perception
Switch
Keller Easterling
Architecture Essay
Posted: September 8, 2017
Category
Technology, Urbanism
Subjects
USA, Artificial intelligence, Automation
No You’re Not
Keller Easterling
Architecture Essay
Posted: September 26, 2016
Category
Design, Philosophy, Posthumanism
Subjects
Consciousness & Cognition, Violence, Logic
IIRS
Keller Easterling
In internet slang, 3DPD—meaning “three-dimensional pig disgusting”—is used to indicate that the 2D world is superior to the 3D world. The 3D world is lumpy. The friction from gravity and laws restricts individual freedom. There is the problem of having a body. And the light—the blizzard of photons coming from everywhere—is blinding and ugly. It is much more appealingly dark and smooth and pure to dematerialize into information and nurture faith in a digital platform. The internet is arguably…
e-flux Journal
Posted: April 1, 2015
Category
Internet, Technology, Economy
Subjects
Money & Finance, Architecture
An Internet of Things
Keller Easterling
I.
An “internet of things” describes a world embedded with so many digital devices that the space between them consists not of dark circuitry but rather the space of the city itself. The computer has escaped the box, and ordinary objects in space are carriers of digital signals. This capacity seems to finally fulfill the dream of artists and architects of the mid- to late twentieth century, among them Jack Burnham, Cedric Price, Archigram, and Christopher Alexander, who experimented…
e-flux Journal
Posted: January 1, 2012
Category
Internet
Subjects
Cybernetics, Architecture