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Cosmopolitics, Computation, Caliphates, UCSD

[courses] 07.10

Graduate seminar based on my forthcoming book, Software After States. Focuses on the critique of territory, sovereignty, jurisdiction, geography as means and ends of governance, and on the projective redesign of their contingent, mutual relations.

Image and Interactivity, UCSD

[courses] 03.10

The history of the mechanical image as a pre-history of electronic, computational and architectural interactivity/ the history of the GUI as a terminal history of the image itself. Lascoux cave paintings qua Parisian pneumatic tubes, Engelbart's demo qua Bentham's panopticon, MVRDV's self-descriptive sections qua open-source logistics.

Solaris: Energy, Excess, Architecture, SCI_Arc

[courses] 10.09

In this research seminar, XLab students will conduct and share extensive research in the theory and construction of structural energy production systems. This research will go hand in hand with their design of a veterinary hospital which produces sufficient energy to power the buildings in its immediate area.

Percept and Concept: Research as Practice/ Practice as Research, UCSD

[courses] 10.09

This MFA/PhD. seminar explores how we are invested therefore in how, on the one hand, the social performativity of the concept relies upon its capacity to reform how the world is perceived (sensed, processed) and how the life and afterlife of the projective percept is always already dependent upon its translation into some operationalized conceptual register.

Circulation/ CHSR, UCSD

[courses] 06.09

Undergraduate seminar in the ICAM program at UCSD on the conception, planning and projective design of regional transportation, understood as the design of an artificial ecology according to interaction and interface design methodologies.

Megachurch, SCI_Arc

[courses] 06.09

A studio/ seminar at SCI_Arc focusing on the American megachurch as an incomplete typology in the manufacturing of symbolic centers forpost-secular market cultures. Unlike previous studios, we prioritized the classical linear plan over rendered surface complexity as generative mechanism.

Cannibal House, SCI_Arc

[courses] 02.09

XLab seminar on cannibalism, the post-Oedipal family, Richard Neutra, defensibility, soylent green, Dusan Makavejev, Lacan, post-Apocalyptic Silverlake, etc.

The Image of Program: Interfaces, Networks, Territories, UCSD

[courses] 02.09

A seminar on contemporary the Political Philosophy of Computational Aesthetics. We focus on now, in the convergence, divergence and replication of computational media, technologies, and processes of production, we see new political and legal forms emerging from the bits and pieces of older institutions.

Scalarity, SCI_Arc

[courses] 12.08

1. The most important aspect is to simply articulate what the project is and does. Explain it from the top, and down to all the relevant details. You should be clear. The explanation should allow someone who has never seen your project, and never will, to understand it completely.

(Some) Matter Calculates (Other) Matter, SCI_Arc

[courses] 05.08

Or, put differently, when the world itself beomes, quite entirely, the image of the world itself. what is the space of political force of action? What is assembled by such a network of monitoring apparatuses if not finallly a new version of the ecology, now a captured striated landscape to be collectively regulated as a computational resource?What is this as architecture? As political science?

Brand Lab 4: Here Aliens, Now Posthumans, UCLA D|MA

[courses] 03.08

The 4th and last Brand Lab, on ?alien services? and the inverse strategy of developing products and services first and developing for sponsor brands second. Linked with Rene Daalder?s spacecollective.org

The Aesthetics of Logistics, SCI_Arc

[courses] 01.08

The 2003 essay, "The Aesthetics of Logistics: Architecture, Subjectivity and the Ambient Database" is published this year in Language Systems: After Prague Structuralism edited by Louis Armand. (Litteraria Pragensia, Prague 2007)

Architectural Theory, (2007-After), SCI_Arc

[courses] 09.07

Programs for Practices is an intensive semianr for incoming students in SCI_Arc?s 2GAX program. Surveys the last 25 years of architectural theory and practice, with particular interest in how the practice itself constitutes the first and most important act of design.

Revenge of the Thing: Objects as Media, Pt. 1, SCI_Arc

[courses] 09.07

Seminar at SCI_Arc on the contemporary status of the object in an age of hypermodern logistics and molecular recombinancy, from Heidegger to Droog to smart dust.

Swarm Stadia, SCI_Arc

[courses] 02.07

Swarm Stadia is the 5th studio and seminar I've co-taught with Hernan Diaz-Alonso. We are designing proposals for a new football stadium for Los Angeles in 2016. As stadia have displaced arts architecure on the global stage, what to make of their ncreasingly intensify the simulation and dissimulation of public conflict?

Mobility and Urban Design, SCI_Arc

[courses] 10.06

MR+D Mobiliy and Urban Design graduate seminar

Paul Virilio, SCI_Arc

[courses] 10.06

Paul Virilio’s work is about the dissolution and derangement of an architecture for a world of bodies, now immobilized and overmobilized by their own networks, that finally may not know how to inhabit the only architecture that could save them from their own disappearance.

Logistical Modernity, SCI_Arc

[courses] 10.06

Seminar at SCI_Arc on the history and complexity of global logistics as a political and aesthetic governance of material flows, from Wellington to Virilio to supply chain visualization.

OOZ Workshop, w/ Natalie Jeremijenko, SCI_Arc

[courses] 06.06

Workshop co-taught with Natalie Jeremijenko at SCI_Arc in the early development of her OOZ(backwards zoo) project, designing habitats for more symmetrically mediated human/animal encounters.

Derrida DVD, SCI_Arc

[courses] 06.06

DVD affords unique opportunities to architect new modes of a deconstructivist cinema, one in which the structural logics of database aesthetics drive cinematic experience. Here the material systems of DVD become the basic building blocks of digital cinema and its deconstruction: display, storage, interaction, input, script, portability, etc..

Brand Lab, UCLA D|MA

[courses] 04.06

Co-Directed with Rebeca Mendez, the Brand Lab begins with the assumption that all complex organizations are dependent on their quasi-fictional foundational narratives to socially and economically function. We deploy and appropriate contemporary branding methodologies to develop analytical and projective possible brands.

Philosophy of Technology, SCI_Arc

[courses] 04.06

Undergraduate seminar at SCI_Arc on philosophy?s contentious technologic history, with special interest in software as the machine of thinking, from Lucretius to Liebniz to Marx to Latour.

Programs: Projection and Formation, UCLA AUD

[courses] 07.05

Graduate seminar at UCLA Architecture on the contemporary problematic of "program." By considering program in terms of spatial program, computational program, and political program, and as both a partitional and a projective practice, program is positioned (again) as a strategy of design innovation.

Becoming Animal, XLab, SCI_Arc

[courses] 01.05

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Room Service UCLA AUD

[courses] 07.03

Graduate seminar at UCLA School of Architecture on Hotels and Motels as spaces of flow, identity, performance, death, mystery and branded otherness: space as service, structure as narrative, self as stranger.

Speculative Biotechnology and Architecture, SCI_Arc

[courses] 07.02

This course examines the potential impact of biotechnologies on the architectural imagination, including genetic, genomic and transgenic engineering. We will explore a wide range of theoretical and ethical positions on the dark matter of recombinant design, and will clear the ground for a material architecture based on these complex technologies of self, space and matter.

Terrorism + Architecture, SCI_Arc

[courses] 10.01

Graduate Seminar at SCI_Arc on the interrelationships between exceptional violence, the design and projection of spatial partition, and attacks on those surfaces as constituent symbolic actors. From the architectural metaphors of classical social theory to contemporary sacred and profane societies of control.

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