Tuesday, March 07, 2006

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THE DIAGRAM DEBATE, or the Schizoid Architect...

It is in the fundamental works of philosophers like Michel Foucault, Félix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze that one should seek the theoretical reason for the use of diagrams in design work in architecture. In the first chapter of Capital and Schizophrenia,2 a text that architects have more or less forgotten or suppressed, Deleuze and Guattari write, ' Capital is indeed the body without organs of the capitalist, or rather of the capitalist being. But as such, it is not only the fluid and petrified substance of money, for it will give to the sterility of money the form whereby money produces money. It produces surplus value, just as the body without organs reproduces itself, puts forth shoots, and branches out to the farthest corners of the universe... (more)


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