The Digital, a Continent? Nature and Poetics

Bühlmann, Vera

doi:10.1515/9783035627701

Record link:

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12708/191542

Title:

The Digital, a Continent? Nature and Poetics

Citation:

Bühlmann, V. (2024). The Digital, a Continent? Nature and Poetics (Vol. 22). Birkhäuser. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783035627701

Publisher DOI:

10.1515/9783035627701

Publication Type:

Book - Monograph

Language:

English

Authors:

Bühlmann, Vera

Organisational Unit:

E259-04 - Forschungsbereich Architekturtheorie und Technikphilosophie

Series:

Applied Virtuality Book Series

ISBN:

978-3-0356-2770-1

Volume:

Date (published):

2024

Number of Pages:

468

Publisher:

Birkhäuser

Keywords:

Literary Reason; Architectonics; Communication; Design; Energy; Material; Media; Nature; Rationalism; Architecture Theory; Computer Science; New Materialism; Digital Technology

Abstract:

In The Digital, a Continent?, the author argues in favor of a way of thinking about digital technology that draws on the new materialism. She uses photosynthesis and nuclear fission as examples of processes that are as artificial as they are natural to explain how digital technology can be viewed within the paradigm of a "communicative physics" in which poetics interacts with mathematical thinking. The author concludes that we can better understand ourselves and digital technology by developing notions of the multifaceted ways energy, form, and intellect interact in global architectonics.

Research Areas:

Urban and Regional Transformation: 20%
Development and Advancement of the Architectural Arts: 80%

Science Branch:

2012 - Architektur: 20%
6031 - Philosophie, Ethik: 80%

License:

CC BY-NC-ND 4.0