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Projectiles: Architecture Words 6
Bernard Cache formulated his concept of 'non-standard architecture' in his 1995 book Earth The Furnishing of Territories, a concept that was given the name 'objectile' by Gilles Deleuze in his book on the philosopher Leibniz, The Fold. This collection of ten essays brings together a number of key texts by Cache. These include his 1999 'Plea for Euclid' and more recent writing commissioned especially for this collection, including 'Vitruvius Machinator Terminator'.
Translated by Pamela Johnston and Clare Barrett, with an introduction by Mario Carpo
Translated by Pamela Johnston and Clare Barrett, with an introduction by Mario Carpo
- GenresArchitecture
144 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2010
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May 29, 2025
An excellent intro by Mario Carpo. Currently reading his book The Alphabet and the Algorithm.
Until the reproducibility of social technology is accurately compared with architecture and physics, the Deleuzian paradigm will continue to go misunderstood. The Industrial Revolution was, and continues to be an extension of language technology, first and foremost.
The way we think about geometry, spacetime, and building things is entirely defined, and based in the language of reproducibility. The life of memetic reproduction is manifest in the structural languages it embodies. Identities are architectures and algorithms now orchestrate these lives, whether humanity is ready or not.
If politics seems irrelevant to this discussion it’s because politics has become so deeply ingrained with everything we think we know about the times and spaces we territorialize. The nature of how we identify the freedom of our thoughtspace is political. The impermanent movement of life, when exploited teleologically as a means to an end, in the way we define the spatially dominant math of the past, is political. At the very least Cache gets to vent out some of the frustrations he has with neoliberal greed and complacency as it relates to the future of architecture.
Until the reproducibility of social technology is accurately compared with architecture and physics, the Deleuzian paradigm will continue to go misunderstood. The Industrial Revolution was, and continues to be an extension of language technology, first and foremost.
The way we think about geometry, spacetime, and building things is entirely defined, and based in the language of reproducibility. The life of memetic reproduction is manifest in the structural languages it embodies. Identities are architectures and algorithms now orchestrate these lives, whether humanity is ready or not.
If politics seems irrelevant to this discussion it’s because politics has become so deeply ingrained with everything we think we know about the times and spaces we territorialize. The nature of how we identify the freedom of our thoughtspace is political. The impermanent movement of life, when exploited teleologically as a means to an end, in the way we define the spatially dominant math of the past, is political. At the very least Cache gets to vent out some of the frustrations he has with neoliberal greed and complacency as it relates to the future of architecture.
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