Cognitive Architecture. From Bio-Politics To Noo-Politics
Architecture & Mind in the Age of Communication & Information
Edited by: Deborah Hauptmann and Warren Neidich
English
600 pp / 235 x 170 mm / paperback
price € 39.50
ISBN 978 90 6450 725 0
Published by 010 Publishers, Rotterdam
Download Introduction from Deborah Hauptmann
Introduction: Architecture & Mind in the Age of Communication and Information
Download table of contents and feature essay from Warren Neidich
From Noopower to Neuropower: How Mind Becomes Matter (1.4 Mb)
Cognitive Architecture questions of how evolving modalities – from bio-politics to noo-politics – can be mapped upon the city under contemporary conditions of urbanization and globalization.
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The Journal of Neuro-Aesthetic Theory #5 on the issues of Neurobiopolitics, Pluripotentiality and Cognitive Capitalism is currently in progress, including both textual and artistic projects from a wide diversity of artists, theorists and thinkers.
For an introduction into the thematic set-up, there are two texts from Warren Neidich which act as a general theoretical guide:
by Warren Neidich, originally published in Atlántica Magazine of Art and Thought #48-49, 2009
Neuropower in Atlantica
by Warren Neidich, originally published in Sarai Reader 2006: Turbulence
Neurobiopolitics of Global Consciousness
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