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Parisi Goodman - Extensive Continuum, Towards a Rhythmic Anarchitecture
A Parisi/Goodman collaboration that makes rhythm, continuity, and anarchitecture into design problems rather than static aesthetic labels.
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The page matters because Orphan Drift and its adjacent design texts make collective practice visible as a mode of thought in its own right. Interfaces, exhibitions, rhythms, and architectural procedures become ways of composing conceptual space.
Each page uses artistic or design method as its relay: ritual scripting, interface engineering, media ecology, anarchitecture, or algorithmic form. The work is done through environments and procedures rather than through philosophy alone.
That matters because the archive was never only a stack of essays. These pages preserve the collaborative, exhibitionary, and spatial practices through which concepts circulated and acquired public form.
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Track where art or architecture stops serving as illustration and becomes the actual engine of thought. That is where the section becomes most distinctive.
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Definition · paragraph 1
Extensive Continuum Towards a rhythmic anarchitecture by Luciana Parisi & Steve Goodman 1. Introduction The fluidification of the Euclidean spatial matrix has resulted in the implementation of topological models of spatiality, the temporal continuity between shapes and places. In particular, as recently argued, algorithmic architecture stops time from being spatialized into successive segments, opening static forms to temporal variations derived from open programming .
Definition · paragraph 1
Extensive Continuum Towards a rhythmic anarchitecture by Luciana Parisi & Steve Goodman 1. Introduction The fluidification of the Euclidean spatial matrix has resulted in the implementation of topological models of spatiality, the temporal continuity between shapes and places.
Definition · paragraph 1
Extensive Continuum Towards a rhythmic anarchitecture by Luciana Parisi & Steve Goodman 1.
Definition · paragraph 2
Instead, we sidestep the problem of ontologizing either the continuous or the discontinuous, the analog or the digital, hinting at, via Alfred N.Whitehead's notion of the 'extensive continuum', a kind of rhythmic anarchitecture of cyclic discontinuity, or as Leibniz might say, an ecology of nonconscious counting, in which flow is continuously split, cut and broken, while simultaneously the atomic virtually congeals.
Definition · paragraph 6
Algorithms produce a novel movement of thought via lures to conceptual feeling. Rhythms are algorithms in so far as they are relations of numerical instructions for the distribution of events in space and time. A rhythmic anarchitecture is expressed by spatio‐temporal anomalies.
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