Outpost 201124
Parables for the Virtual.
Brian Massumi. 1985
When we think of space as 'extensive' as being measurable, divisible and composed of points plotting possible positions that objects may occupy, we are stopping the world in thought. We are thinking away its dynamic unity, the continuity of its movements. We are looking at only one dimension of reality.
If you know where you where you will end up when you begin, nothing happens tn the meantime.
Bergson redefined space in terms of movement, space is not a ground on which real motion is posited, rather it is real motion that deposits space beneath itself. Space comes into being through motion or event.
On Architectural Experience.
Architecture has the potential capacity on human/spatial bodies to affect or to be affected.
Relations of Movement and Rest.
The bodies capacity to enter into relations of movement and rest, to affect or to be affected.
Massumi/Spinoza/Deleuze.
Architecture still remains primarily as a discussion of distinct bodies, spatial and human with the two remaining physically and psychologically distinct.
Violated Bodies-Spaces.
Intense confrontations between body and space.
Tschumi allows for architecture to be considered as an assemblage, composed of a space and a bodily event, however, even his 'equation' retains a demarcation between spatial bodies and human bodies engaging in event and maintaining that the two function according to independent logics, but serve to affect one another.
Bodies and spaces excrete out of themselves, they penetrate one another, contemporary architecture does not know what to do with such borderless entities. It has no mode of thinking about assemblages of this kind, where once discrete objects leak into one another creating indiscernible masses. There is a multiplicity of bodies, bodies that are forever being created and dismantled, forever in flux.
Architecture between Spectacle and Use.
Anthony Vidler. 2008
Architecture in Abjection.
Bodies-Spaces and their Relations.
Zuzana Kovar. 2018
For Vidler this spectacle architecturre is one that embraces the ideas of image and iconomy.
In addition to carefully placing and posing lone figures within architectural photographs, architecture is also synonymous with casting idealised bodies, Le Corbusier's athelitic figures and his 'Modulor' of an ideal masculine body. And then there are the bodies available in computer models, and the physical little white plastic figurines. These are all ideal figures, doing proper things.
Disjunction.
Volatility-Violence.
Sets in motion a particular series of potentialities that otherwise lie dormant, which can alter architectures physical, social, cultural, ethical and at times political properties.
Creating a schism between program and space, space and program, it does this so precisely because event-space and movement each follow a distinct logic, that when they are superimposed over one another they create disjunction.
For Tschumi there is an intense confrontation that occurs between body and space, bodies violate space and space violates bodies, the relationship between the two is symmetrical.
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