20 documents
Benjamin H. Bratton
Benjamin H. Bratton
Positions
Reinhold Martin, Andreas Angelidakis, Keller Easterling, Ross Exo Adams, V. Mitch McEwen, Shannon Mattern, Douglas Spencer, Daniel Fernández Pascual, Alon Schwabe, Nicholas Korody, Samia Henni, Andrea Bagnato, Víctor Muñoz Sanz, Mario Carpo, Alessandro Bava, Beatrice Galilee, Elvia Wilk, Victoria Bugge Øye, Godofredo Enes Pereira, Aristide Antonas, Thanos Zartaloudis, Adam Jasper, Michael Sorkin, David Adjaye, Paola Antonelli, Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli, Sou Fujimoto, Juan Herreros, Giovanna Borasi, Stefano Boeri, Toyo Ito, Marina Otero Verzier, Iñaqui Carnicero, Lorena del Río, José Aragüez, Nick Axel, Nikolaus Hirsch, Sylvia Lavin, Charles Holland, feminist architecture collaborative, Dan Handel, Amelyn Ng, Andrés Jaque, Pedro Gadanho, Eva Hagberg, Julian Rose, Mimi Zeiger, Andreas Rumpfhuber, Lawrence Lek, Emma McCormick-Goodhart, Justin Fowler, Manuel Herz, Emanuel Christ, Shahar Livne, Ethel Baraona Pohl, Tom Holert, Benjamin H. Bratton, Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi, Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar, and The Alumni of N.A.W. 4
Architecture Project
Posted: May 28, 2023
Category
Architecture, Interviews & Conversations, Design, Urbanism
Subjects
Knowledge Production, Discourse
Positions
Touchlessness
Benjamin H. Bratton
Architecture Essay
Posted: July 3, 2021
Category
Bodies
Subjects
Affect, Health & Disease, Biopolitics, Intimacy, Subjectivity
Summa Technologiae
Summa Technologiae (The Lem Seminars)
e-flux Announcement
Posted: October 30, 2020
Category
Technology, Philosophy
Subjects
Science Fiction
Institution
Challenging our understanding of “design” by engaging with and departing from the concept of the “self.”
e-flux Books
Posted: January 1, 2018
Category
Architecture, Design, Technology, Aesthetics, Labor & Work, Posthumanism
Subjects
Science, Everyday Life, Infrastructure, Police & Prisons, Futures, Housing & Real Estate, Human - Nonhuman Relations, Gentrification
e-flux journal series at REDCAT—#1
Benjamin H. Bratton, Andrew Norman Wilson, Sohrab Mohebbi, Stephen Squibb, Dena Yago, Ricardo Domiguez, Ruth Estévez, and Julieta Aranda
e-flux Live
Posted: October 1, 2016
Category
Technology
Subjects
Fiction
Dual book launch with Benjamin H. Bratton at the Center for Transformative Media
Benjamin H. Bratton, Matteo Pasquinelli, McKenzie Wark, Julieta Aranda, Carla Leitao, Lev Manovich, and Edward Keller
e-flux Live
Posted: May 3, 2016
Category
Data & Information, Internet
Subjects
Infrastructure
# 72
The Role of Megastructure in the Eschatology of John Frum (On OMA’s Master Plan for the Spratly Islands)
Benjamin H. Bratton
September 30, 2001
The South Pacific Ocean (which some call simply “the Ocean”) is composed by an indefinite and perhaps infinite number of geometric configurations with vast planes of salt water in between, surrounding very low carpets of sand. Among these are the Spratly Islands, claimed by no less than seven countries: China, Malaysia, the Philippines, Brunei, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Taiwan. From any of the Spratlys one can see, on the interminable horizon, the upper and lower...
e-flux Journal
Posted: April 1, 2016
Subjects
Fiction
e-flux journal
New Issue, New Editor, New Book!
e-flux Announcement
Posted: February 3, 2016
Institution
e-flux Announcement
Posted: January 11, 2016
Category
Design, Architecture
Subjects
Fiction
Institution
e-flux journal
Issue 69 out now
e-flux Announcement
Posted: January 7, 2016
Category
Borders & Frontiers, Nationalism, Philosophy
Subjects
Ultranationalism, Autonomy
Institution
Dispute Plan to Prevent Future Luxury Constitution
Benjamin H. Bratton
A kaleidoscopic theory-fiction links the utopian fantasies of political violence with the equally utopian programs of security and control.
e-flux Books
Posted: January 1, 2016
Category
Utopia, Architecture, Design, Technology
Subjects
Fiction, Violence, Infrastructure, Science Fiction, Games & Play
# 69
El Proceso (The Process)
Benjamin H. Bratton
I.
Xefirotarch makes vampire architecture. The reasons for this go beyond the now well-known series of incidents at the group’s 2006 SF MoMA show, during which, over consecutive days, several children were left bleeding and traumatized by their encounters with the installation. Each claimed to have been “bitten” by its forms, but more likely, the children had fallen upon one of its dangerous, fang-like angles, and left punctured by the sharp contours. One boy was hospitalized for nearly...
e-flux Journal
Posted: January 1, 2016
Category
Architecture, Latin America, Film
# 65
On Deprofessionalizing Surgery
Benjamin H. Bratton
Overview
At the Center for the Future of Surgery at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, medical students learn to operate surgical robots. The surgeon sits at a control station with her eyes focused into a fixed stereoscopic viewer. In each hand she manipulates extremely nimble rotational controllers to guide four robotic arms through the procedure. At the tip of each arm may be a scalpel, scissors, a Bovie cauterizer, a fiberoptic camera or light, or any of...
e-flux Journal
Posted: May 1, 2015
Category
Technology
Subjects
Health & Disease, Automation
Locating the backbone of the global telecommunications network we used to think was an internet.
e-flux Books
Posted: April 1, 2015
Category
Internet, Technology, Capitalism
Subjects
Post-Internet, Networks, Knowledge Production, Infrastructure, Social Media, Internet Art, Contemporaneity, Accelerationism
Book launch: The Internet Does Not Exist
Keller Easterling, Bruno Latour, Ursula K. Heise, Gean Moreno, Franco “Bifo” Berardi, Diedrich Diederichsen, Rasmus Fleischer, Jon Rich, Geert Lovink, Geert Lovink, Brian Kuan Wood, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Julian Assange, Metahaven, Benjamin H. Bratton, Patricia MacCormack, and Hito Steyerl
e-flux Live
Posted: March 27, 2015
Category
Internet
Subjects
Networks, Post-Internet
# 53
The Black Stack
Benjamin H. Bratton
Planetary-scale computation takes different forms at different scales: energy grids and mineral sourcing; chthonic cloud infrastructure; urban software and public service privatization; massive universal addressing systems; interfaces drawn by the augmentation of the hand, of the eye, or dissolved into objects; users both overdetermined by self-quantification and exploded by the arrival of legions of nonhuman users (sensors, cars, robots). Instead of seeing the various species of...
e-flux Journal
Posted: March 1, 2014
Category
Technology, Internet, Data & Information
Subjects
Infrastructure, State & Government
Escape Velocities: Symposium at e-flux
Benjamin H. Bratton, Keller Easterling, Metahaven, Vinca Kruk, Daniel van der Velden, Reza Negarestani, Steven Shaviro, and McKenzie Wark
e-flux Live
Posted: November 4, 2013
Category
Aesthetics
Subjects
Accelerationism
# 46
Some Trace Effects of the Post-Anthropocene: On Accelerationist Geopolitical Aesthetics
Benjamin H. Bratton
1. Frame
Any conjunction between aesthetics and politics (for a political aesthetic, an aestheticized politics, a geopolitical aesthetic, a politics of aesthetics, and so forth) is necessarily fraught by estranged agendas—all the more reason for us to conceive of their inter-activation from a willfully ahumanist perspective. Aesthetics and/or politics of what and for what? The cascade of Anthrocidal traumas—from Copernicus and Darwin, to postcolonial and ecological inversions, to...
e-flux Journal
Posted: June 1, 2013
Category
Capitalism, Aesthetics, Image
Subjects
Accelerationism, Anthropocene, Algorithms
8 Essays
Compiled byNashin Mahtani
With:
Franco “Bifo” Berardi, Massimiliano Geraci, Kali Stull, Etienne Turpin, Matteo Pasquinelli, Orit Halpern, Benjamin H. Bratton, Maurizio Lazzarato, Éric Alliez, Antonia Majaca, Luciana Parisi, Godofredo Enes Pereira
e-flux Reader
Category
Nature & Ecology, Capitalism, Philosophy, Economy
Subjects
Solidarity, Health & Disease, Biopolitics, Necropolitics, Ontology , Anthropocene