Print Email Facebook Twitter Technology and the body public Title Technology and the body public Author Read, S.A. Faculty Architecture Department Urbanism Date 2013-12-31 Abstract Arakawa and Gins are concerned with the bio-tech creatures we have become – or perhaps the ones we have always been. They see us as creatures-witharchitecture, architecture being for them, and along with language, one of the most basic forms of technique. Their ‘architectural body’ is constitutive of its own existence in an ‘architectural surround’ which is itself part of that constitution. The body here is not enclosed within its own outline but is extended in time and space into its surround; it acts and makes itself – it ‘persons’ in their terms – in an active relation to the surround. Perception and action involve more than a subjective interiority, or simply a biological body, they involve the whole biotech ‘architectural body.’ Arakawa and Gins contribute to a view that human life is distributed, in the world and self-forming in constitutive and heterogeneous relations which mingle the biological and the technological. There is in this view – and pace Heidegger and Ellul – no essential conflict between technology and the human; here, technique becomes a human and anthropological issue. To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:635b7e48-1941-402c-a25c-98a1366f0a4d ISSN 1916-5870 Source Inflexions: a journal for research creation, (6), 2013 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights (c) 2012 The Author(s)Creative Commons BY NC ND Files PDF 291547.pdf 190.05 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:635b7e48-1941-402c-a25c-98a1366f0a4d/datastream/OBJ/view