Noetics Without a Mind

Authors

Stavros Kousoulas (ed)
Department of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0285-0653
Andrej Radman (ed)
Department of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-1197
Heidi Sohn (ed)
Department of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1831-2056
Keywords: Architecture, Affordances, Technicities, Philosophy, Pedagogies

Synopsis

Addressing the intricate socio-techno-environmental dimension of noesis within the current climate of social and urban challenges necessitates a transdisciplinary approach. In pursuit of this objective, NWM incorporates contributions that delve into sense-making processes involved in the individuation of humans, technologies, and their affective environments. These contributions offer diverse perspectives that critically examine the production of sense and its heterogeneous potentials for transindividuation. Key questions include: What transductive relations emerge in the entanglements between technology, affects, and the production of our (offloaded) memories and desires? How do these relations shape the sensible apprehension of our lives and the lives of our milieus? In what ways can they be expressed beyond the conventional, Western, ocularcentric, and annotational fixations of generic sciences? What new senses are required to navigate the complexity of the present? And, collectively and technologically, how do we sense the effects of our actions? Drawing inspiration from Gregory Bateson, how can we cultivate a different sensory perspective to foster a transformative mode of thinking?

NWM provides a platform for thinkers who boldly traverse disciplinary boundaries, encompassing a diverse range of fields. These include, but are not limited to, affect and affordance theories, architecture, art and cultural studies, philosophy and philosophy of technology, (digital) media studies, feminist theories, film theory, social sciences, and literature.

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Stavros Kousoulas (ed), Department of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Stavros Kousoulas is Assistant Professor of Architecture Philosophy and Theory at the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft. He studied architecture at the National Technical University of Athens and at TU Delft. He received his PhD cum laude from IUAV Venice. He has published and lectured in Europe and abroad and is production editor and member of the editorial board of the peer-reviewed architecture theory journal Footprint. He is the author of Architectural Technicities (Routledge, 2022) and has co-edited the volumes Architectures of Life and Death (RLI, 2021), Design Commons (Springer, 2022) and The Space of Technicity (TU Delft OPEN, 2024).

Andrej Radman (ed), Department of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Andrej Radman is Assistant Professor of Architecture Philosophy and Theory, and coordinator of the Ecologies of Architecture research group at the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology. Over the past two decades Radman's research has focused on the nexus between Architecture and Radical Empiricism. His latest publication is Ecologies of Architecture: Essays on Territorialisation (2021). In 2023, Radman was honoured with the Mark Cousins Theory Award presented by DigitalFUTURES. This award recognises leading theorists in the field of architecture and design who have demonstrated forward-thinking perspectives in the field.

Heidi Sohn (ed), Department of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Heidi Sohn is associate professor of architecture theory, and head of the Architecture Philosophy and Theory group at the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment of the TU-Delft. Her areas of expertise are eclectic, and include notions of 'worlding', 'the monstruous', 'heterotopia' and 'difference'. She is interested in teasing out articulations of critical and intensive (onto)cartographies within culture, materiality, spatiality and time on the lived environment. Her current research deals with new materialism and the field of creative ecologies. In her recent writing, she explores environmental narrative and ecological storytelling as alternatives to conventional academic writing and theory production.

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November 11, 2024

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978-94-93329-24-9

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2024-10-25