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Deals with the rapidly happening "deterritorialization" of everything which was once regarded stable and binding.

Deals with media architecture and digital infrastructure. The author examines buildings and projects by Toyo Ito, Werner Sobek, Philippe Rahm, Usman Haque, Electroland, Troika, NOX and Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Ben Rubin, and Olafur Eliasson.

In times where the very concept of `nature' is questioned not only in its philosophical dimension, but in the core of its biological materiality, we need to reconsider the interrelations between architecture and nature.

The authors illustrate that today we are already in a position to employ existing technologies to address energy problems in an environmentally friendly way. Surprisingly, the problem is not technical feasibility - since this has been scientifically proven - but the limits set by mankind.

Recent developments in computer science, particularly ”data-driven procedures" have opened a new level of design and engineering. This has also affected architecture. The publication collects contributions on Coding as Literacy by computer scientists, mathematicians, philosophers, cultural theorists, and architects. The main focus in the book is the observation of computer-based methods that go beyond strictly case-based or problem-solution-oriented paradigms. This invites readers to understand Computational Procedures as being embedded in an overarching ”media literacy" that can be revealed through, and acquired by, ”computational literacy", and to consider the data processed in the above-mentioned methods as being beneficial in terms of quantum physics. ”Self-Organizing Maps" (SOM), which were first introduced over 30 years ago, will serve as the concrete reference point for all further discussions.

In Natural Communication kritisiert der Autor das derzeitige Paradigma der Komplexitatswissenschaften, die Ziele immer spezifisch in den Blick nimmt. Er schlagt eine Alternative vor, die eine grundlegende Architektur der Kommunikation vorstellt. Sein Modell der naturlichen Kommunikation"e; schliet moderne theoretische Konzepte aus Mathematik und Physik mit ein, insbesondere der Kategorietheorie und der Quantenmechanik. Er abstrahiert daraus prazise Grundbegriffe, die zu einer terminologischen Basis dieser Theorie fuhren und die Moglichkeit eroffnen, mit Komplexitat neu umzugehen. Der Autor ist davon uberzeugt, dass es nur durch einen Blick in die Vergangenheit moglich ist, eine Kontinuitat und Koharenz in unserer gegenwartigen Denkweise herzustellen, insbesondere in Bezug auf die Komplexitat.

In The Digital, a Continent?, the author argues in favor of a way of thinking about digital technology that draws on the new materialism. She uses photosynthesis and nuclear fission as examples of processes that are as artificial as they are natural to explain how digital technology can be viewed within the paradigm of a "communicative physics" in which poetics interacts with mathematical thinking. The author concludes that we can better understand ourselves and digital technology by developing notions of the multifaceted ways energy, form, and intellect interact in global architectonics. Theoretical consideration of digital technology Visual language and science New volume in the Applied Virtuality Book Series

In his 1979 essay The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge philosopher Jean-François Lyotard noted that the advent of the computer opened up a stage of progress in which knowledge has become a commodity. Modernity and postmodernity appear as two stages of a process resulting from the conflict of science and narrative. As science attempts to distance itself from narrative, it must create its own legitimacy. This paper takes up this challenge with a focus on the question of imagery. The image is precisely what modern science seeks to free itself from in its quest for absolute transparency. This transparency is examined from the perspective of architecture, drawing on arguments from philosophy, quantum mechanics, theology and information theory. Natural science in the context of postmodernism Quantum mechanics and information theory New volume in the Applied Virtuality Book Series