Bibliographic record
Abstract
Through a study of language this paper explores the ironic possibility that a turning point in human communication as an environment shaping practice may help explain architecture’s prehistoric origins and its persistence. The paper begins with an Apology – a validation of the project. The practical effects of postmodernity can be identified with the hybridization of spatial phenomena and the implosion of media. Architecture, it seems, has become more complicated than the etymology of the word suggests; the architect – archi tekt?n: master builder – is now also a master of ceremonies charged with orchestrating the space of communication. In a peculiar sense building and writing have become one. But is this a new phenomenon or could it be the present-day manifestation of a much older, perhaps ancient, idea: that architecture has an inherent communicative logic? The body of the paper focusses on Deleuze and Guattari’s writings on deterritorialization and inscription. It moves from the atmosphere of the present – the hybridity of architectural space after the postmodern turn – back down to earth – the territory of the nomad – to see what may be uncovered or recovered in the process. The method is informed by Rorty’s writing on hermeneutics and philosophy as edification, and by Vattimo’s on the return of myth in postmodern experience. It proceeds from Aphorism to Essay to Dialogue. Each layer of the text broadens and transforms the preceding one through purposeful shifts in literary style. The purpose of the Aphorism is to capture a truth, namely: that architecture is not a consequence of geography – a marking, marking out, and writing of the earth – but is born out of the collision of geography and scenography – a masking, marking, writing of the skin. The Essay exploits and adds to material brought from the margins by Deleuze and Guattari in Anti-Oedipus and in A Thousand Plateaus. It tests ideas and lines of argument to flush out the referential matter and flesh out its intricacies. The Dialogue attempts to make sense of the material through a dialectic procedure that ends in some sense of agreement or clarity over positions, peripheral or otherwise. An Epilogue is appended not so much to tie-up loose ends – the choice being between entanglement and confusion – as to fray and flay them – to expose the lineaments to censure. It does not arrive at foundations, essential terms, but at three images: the granularity of shifting sands, the nomadic spirit living on within cities, and the permanent refuge as a place of interiorization, projection and nostalgic reproduction. Is there anything beyond the cave – quiquid ultra speluncum ?
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.008 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.012 | 0.059 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.010 | 0.013 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".