bibliography
(also see course reserve in library and online dedicated dropbox for excerpts/full books access)
__general bibliography
selected readings
DELANDA, Manuel, “Matter Matters” – Article Series in Domus magazine
(dropbox, also online on Google Docs)
DELANDA, Manuel, “Cities and Nations” in A New Philosophy of Society: Assemblage Theory and Social Complexity, Continuum, 2006
STERLING, Bruce, “Meet the Spime”, “A Synchronic Society” in Shaping Things, Mediawork, MIT Press, 2005 (dropbox excerpts)
HAYLES, Katherine, “Connecting the Quantum Dots, Nanotechscience and Culture” in Nanoculture, Implications of the New Technoscience, Intellect Ltd, 2004 (dropbox)
VINGE, Vernor, Rainbow’s End (several excerpts), Tor Science Fiction, 2007
EASTERLING, Keller, “Comtemplation: Error” and “Contemplation: Pirate” in Enduring Innocence, MIT Press, 2007
EASTERLING, Keller, “Subdvision Products”, in Organization Space, MIT Press 2001
APPADURAI, Arjun, “Global Ethnoscapes: Notes and Queries for a Transnational Anthropology” in Modernity at Large, University of Minnesota Press, 1996
BANHAM, Reyner: “Megastructures: Urban Futures of the recent past”
JOHNSON, Steven, “Emergence”, Scribner, 2002
BALL, Philip, Branches, Oxford University Press, 2001
(dropbox excerpts)
BALL, Philip, Flow, Oxford University Press, 2001
(dropbox excerpts)
BALL, Philip, The Self-Made Tapestry, Oxford University Press, 2001
BALL, Philip, Made to Measure, Princeton University Press, 1999
GALLOWAY, Alexander, Protocol: How Control exists after Decentralization
MIT Press, 2004
GALLOWAY, Alexander, and THACKER, Eugene, The Exploit: a Theory of Networks, University of Minnesota Press, 2007
FULLER, Buckminster, “World Game” in Critical Path, St. Martin’s Press, 1981
ALLEN, Stan, Landform Building, Lars Muller Publishers 2011
Living in the Endless City, Phaidon Press, 2011
Endless City, Phaidon Press, 2011
AMIN, Ash, and THRIFT, Nigel, Cities, Polity, 2002
GALLOWAY, Alexander, and THACKER, Eugene, The Exploit: a Theory of Networks, University of Minnesota Press, 2007
Directed Research Suggested Readings
Stephen Johnson, “Emergence” (forthcoming in course reserve – see excerpt in dropbox)
Manuel Delanda, “Cities and Nations” in New Philosophy of Society (dropbox)
Manuel Delanda, “Virtual Environments and the Emergence of Synthetic Reason”
Reyner Banham, “Megastructures: Urban Futures of the Recent Past” (forthcoming in course reserve)
John R. and Margaret Gold, “OLYMPIC CITIES : CITY AGENDAS, PLANNING AND THE WORLD’S GAMES, 1896-2016” (forthcoming in course reserve)
Winny Maas and others, “NL28” (forthcoming in course reserve)
Simon Sadler, “Archigram: Architecture without Architecture” (forthcoming in course reserve)
Peter Lang and William Menking, “SuperStudio: Life without Objects” (forthcoming in course reserve)
DOXIADIS, C.A., Anthropopolis, W.W. Norton Company, New York, 1975
FULLER, Buckminster, Synergetics, McMillan Publishing, 1975
FULLER, Buckminster, Ideas and Integrities, Collier Books, 1969
Vernor Vinge, “An Excellent Affiliance” in “Rainbow’s End” (excerpt – dropbox)
Anthropocene Definition (wikipedia)
“The End of Theory: the data deluge makes the scientific method obsolete”
Saskia Sassen: “What Matters: Talking back to your Intelligent City”
Phillip Ball, “Made to Measure: New Materials for the 21st Century”
Kazys Varnelis, “The Rise of Network Culture” (dropbox)
Sanford Kwinter, “Soft Systems” (dropbox)
Peter Yeadon, “Small is Big” (dropbox)
Manuel Delanda, “The Limits of Simulation”, in AD magazine (dropbox)
Arjun Appadurai, “Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy” in “Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization” (dropbox)
Michael Batty, “Cities and Complexity” (excerpts in dropbox)
Usman Haque, “Hardspace, Softspace” (dropbox)
Ricky Burdett and others, “The Endless City”, “Living in the Endless City” (forthcoming in course reserve)
For those of you who were curious about this:
Friedrich Kittler’s “There is no software”
Lev Manovich “There is only Software”
_Supporting Bibliography
Ubiquity, Locality and Economy
Weber, Samuel, “Displacing the Body” http://www.hydra.umn.edu/weber/displace.html
Carson, Anne, “Economy of the Unlost” (on gift economies)
Appadurai, Arjun, “Global Ethnoscapes: Notes and Queries for a Transnational
Anthropology” (excerpt in dropbox)
Bataille, George, “The Accursed Share”
EASTERLING, Keller, “Enduring Innocence”, “Organization Space” (forthcoming in course reserve)
CACHE, Bernard, “Earth Moves”
Media Space, Networks, Privacy, Power
GALLOWAY, Alexander, “Protocol: How control exists after decentralization”, “Gaming: Essays on Algorithmic Culture” (forthcoming in course reserve)
HUBLER, MASSUMI and other, “Interact or Die: there is drama in the networks”
Saskia Sassen, Talking back to your Intelligent City
AD on Collective Intelligence
Models and Space
FERNANDEZ-GALIANO, Luis, “Fire and memory”
Rheinhold, Martin, “Organizational Complex”
Batty, Michael, “Cities and Complexity”
Sterling, Bruce, “Shaping Things” (forthcoming in course reserve)
MAAS, Winny, “Space Fighter”
Novak, Marcos, “Transphysical City”, “Transarchitectures and Hypersurfaces” (articles)
AD (Architecture Design magazine) on “Digital Cities”, “Territory”,
(wikipedia)
Scenarios/Scenario Design
wiki: scenario target 2020, by BT futurology unit
Architecture Precedent
BANHAM, Reyner, “Architecture of the Well-tempered Environment”, “Megastructure: Urban Futures of the Recent Past”
MOMA edition, “The changing of the avant-garde”
WIGLEY, Mark, “Constant’s New Babylon”
PRICE, Cedric, “Opera”
DENNIS, CROMPTON, and others, “A guide to Archigram 1961-74”
Other Architecture references:
Media, Science and Culture
Kittler, Friedrich, “Optical Media”
KWINTER, Sanford, “Far from Equilibrium”
VIRILIO, Paul, “The Vision Machine”
AGAMBEN, Giorgio, “The Open: Men and Animal”
HAYLES, Katherine (ed.), “Nanoculture”
Programmable Matter/Meta-Materials/Nanotechnology vs Space:
CAPOLINO Filippo (ed.), “Theory and Phenomena of Metamaterials”
Transmaterial (see index for classification discussion purposes)
http://transmaterial.net/
http://www.materia.nl/
http://www.interactivearchitecture.org/
SASS, Stephen L., The Substance of Civilization
HUMANOIDS ROBOTIC GROUP, http://groups.csail.mit.edu/lbr/#humanoid
ADDINGTON, Michelle, SCHODEK, Daniel, “Smart Materials and Technologies”
McCarthy, William, “Hacking Matter”
GOODSELL, David, “Bionanotechnology: Lessons from Nature”
SMITH, David and Others, “Metamaterials: Theory, Design and Applications”
http://nanoarchitecture.net/resources
(check this for major list of resources)
http://www.nature.com/nnano/index.html
http://www.omnispace.org/my_weblog/art/index.html
http://www.opera2015.org/home.asp
http://pubs.acs.org/journal/nalefd
http://www.scientific.net/JNanoR
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/13697021
http://people.ee.duke.edu/~drsmith/neg_ref_home.htm
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/18731988
http://www.nanofuture2030.com/
http://www.azonano.com/Details.asp?ArticleID=1967
Distributed Robotics
http://groups.csail.mit.edu/drl/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
Nature&Computation, Biomimicry/Biomimetics/Bionic
FLAKE, Gary, “The Computational Beauty of Nature”
GOULD, James, and GOULD, Carol, “Animal Architects – Building and the Evolution of
Intelligence”
Kittler, Friedrich, “Optical Media”
INGRAHAM, Catherine, “Architecture, Animal, Human”
JOHNSON, Stephen, “Emergence”
BALL, Philip, “The Self-Made Tapestry”
BALL, Philip, “Branches”, “Flow”, “Shapes”
BALL, Philip, “Life’s Matrix: a biography of water”
http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-3190
Science Fiction, Fiction
VINGE, Vernor, “Rainbow’s End”
STROSS, Charles, “Accelerando”
STEPHENSON, Neal, “Diamond Age”
STEPHENSON, Neal, “Snowcrash”
“La Tour” – Schuitten&Peters (graphic novel)
“L’Archiviste” – Schuitten&Peters (graphic novel)
