The Epiphylogenetic Turn and Architecture

In (Tertiary) Memory of Bernard Stiegler

Contribution to periodical (2022)

Contributors

R.A. Gorny Situated Architecture - Architecture and the Built Environment (editor)
A. Radman Theory, Territories & Transitions - Architecture and the Built Environment (editor)
Research Group
Situated Architecture (Architecture and the Built Environment) (TU Delft)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7480/footprint.16.1
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Published Date

2022

Language

English

Faculty

Architecture and the Built Environment

Department

Architecture

Research Group

Situated Architecture

Abstract

The work of Bernard Stiegler (1952–2020) provides invaluable material for rethinking the built environment as a sort of inorganic spatial memory that enables the evolution of life by means other than organic life. Following Stiegler’s theoretical turn toward epiphylogenetic processes, Footprint 30 is devoted to revisiting the built environment as middling between individuating technical ensembles and niche construction processes. It offers a platform to the transdisciplinary field of posthuman scholarship dealing with existential niches from a technological angle and the concomitant architectural thought that advances such speculative recasting.