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01.10.2012
"Synthetic Assemblages: New Techniques of the Object" MFA/Phd. seminar in VisArts Dept. at UCSD. Winter 2012
11.30.2011
Lecture, "On the Nomos of the Cloud,"Ecole nationale supérieure d'architecture Paris-Malaquais , FR
11.28.2011
Lecture "Deep Address, The Cloud, The Stack" at the Berlage Institute, Rotterdam, NL.
11.23.2011
Guest lecture in Jeffrey Inaba's seminar at UCLA Architecture + Urban Design.
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"Synthetic Assemblages: New Techniques of the Object" MFA/Phd. seminar in VisArts Dept. at UCSD. Winter 2012
11.30.2011
Lecture, "On the Nomos of the Cloud,"Ecole nationale supérieure d'architec
11.28.2011
Lecture "Deep Address, The Cloud, The Stack" at the Berlage Institute, Rotterdam, NL.
11.23.2011
Guest lecture in Jeffrey Inaba's seminar at UCLA Architecture + Urban Design.
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bio/cvBenjamin H. Bratton
is a Design Theorist based in California
He is Associate Professor of Visual Arts
at the University of California, San Diego, and
Director of The Center for Design and Geopoltics at CALIT2
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is a Design Theorist based in California
He is Associate Professor of Visual Arts
at the University of California, San Diego, and
Director of The Center for Design and Geopoltics at CALIT2
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scans contact
benjamin (at) bratton.info
Voice and Text: (011) 323.646.8071
Twitter: bratton
Skype: benjaminbratton
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Center for Design and GeopoliticsBratton is Director of
D:GP The Center for Design and Geopolitics an interdisciplinary think-tank based at Calit2 and the University of California, San Diego that works to articulate and prototype speculative responses to emergent geopolitical complexities posed by planetary-scale computation and ecological governance.
Twitter: DesGeopolitics
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D:GP The Center for Design and Geopolitics an interdisciplinary think-tank based at Calit2 and the University of California, San Diego that works to articulate and prototype speculative responses to emergent geopolitical complexities posed by planetary-scale computation and ecological governance.
Twitter: DesGeopolitics
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(1) multiple definitions of technics: the permeable membranes between the human, posthuman and inhuman; (2) apparatuses of production and the industrial precondition of Modernity: Marxism, instrumental rationalization of form; (3) Heidegger and the exterior encounter of ‘becoming’; (4) the medium is the massage: McLuhan, Kittler and the genealogy of convergence; (5) the machinic subconscious: telepresence, schizoanalysis, inorganic surrealism; (6) software epistemology: GUI phenomenology, durable bit conditions, from flow to habitus (7) “risk” : the crisis of crisis, systemic inertia, the permanence of the accident; (8) cinema per se: animate surfaces, cameras obscura, database narrativity; (9) ecologies of specific sustainability and durable mutability: genomic habitats; (10) the “body” as form, medium and limit condition