Archinect - News2024-05-01T16:10:14-04:00https://archinect.com/news/article/150077597/global-heatwave-is-symptom-of-early-stage-cycle-of-civilisational-collapse
Global heatwave is symptom of early stage cycle of civilisational collapse Orhan Ayyüce2018-08-13T18:59:00-04:00>2022-03-16T09:10:02-04:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/cb/cb07ccba9570565c02e89cb10bca2045.jpeg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>This summer’s extreme weather has hit home some stark realities. Climate disaster is not slated to happen in some far-flung theoretical future. It’s here, and now.</p></em><br /><br /><p>Penned by Nafeez Ahmed, investigative journalist, recovering academic, tracking the Crisis of Civilization, the article points to a more urgent than urgent times in terms of civilisation and not merely the climate change. <br></p>
<p>Also an urgent quote from a friend internalizing the article for architecture, "I am surprised that with contemporary conditions that require a radical re-orientation and re-conceptualization of discipline and profession, architecture professors continue to talk about elements, tectonic, "Fundamentals", context, composition, scale, poche, sustainability... Bla,bla... Let's build a new ontology..."<br></p>
<p>-Alex Santander, Architect. Tijuana, Mexico</p>
https://archinect.com/news/article/148831348/philosopher-graham-harman-to-join-sci-arc-faculty
Philosopher Graham Harman to join SCI-Arc faculty Nicholas Korody2016-02-23T19:40:00-05:00>2016-03-10T19:25:35-05:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/31/310iyul8n3gqr9n0.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>Earlier today, the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) announced that Graham Harman, Ph.D. will be joining its Liberal Arts faculty. Harman, who taught previously at the American University in Cairo, Egypt, has played a pivotal role in the development of "speculative realism" and "object-oriented ontology" (OOO), two related strands of contemporary philosophy.</p><p>Since his early exploration of the concept of "tool-being" in Martin Heidegger's <em>Being and Time</em>, Harman has laid the groundworks for a popular and influential revision of metaphysics, characterized by the rejection of anthropocentrism, which privileges the human over the nonhuman, and "correlationism", or the post-Kantian assumption that reality emerges from human thinking.</p><p><img title="" alt="" src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/650x/3i/3ih2mm3j45gt8fos.jpg"></p><p>“Graham is a unique and notorious figure in philosophy and the arts. His fresh metaphysical project offers a way of understanding reality not as a product of the human mind, but rather as a cornucopia of independent and vibrant objects, la...</p>