2013-05-07

The Difference Engineer: Fictional Narratives for Looser Lives


A critical reading of the architectural practice of r&sie through the lens of Gilles Deleuze



“In a restless moment near the end of their lives, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari revealed their sensitivity to the uncertainty within their work, which was constantly being reformulated, by asking what it means to create. While the act of creation is not a representation of something that already exists, it is also not an eruption of the uncontrolled or undefined; it is not born of pure chaos, nor does it refer to it,” Natanel Elfassy

Against Intepretation: Constructing Difference for Differance’s Sake or, “If It Ain’t Broke, Break It”


This essay is an attempt at an amoral textual simulation. It accepts the contemporary as is and does not resist simulacra but embraces it. Any alternative view, in my view, is futile. It tries to resist cynicism for a positivist projection of, in the absence of a defined agenda or manifesto, where do we go from here?