LCC 3833 F: Living Patterns

Readings: http://www.library.gatech.edu/resv/lcc/3833/sha/index.htm

 

 

THEMES

 

READINGS
Spectacle Guy Debord, Society of Spectacle
Economy Jean Baudrillard, System of Objects
Pattern Language Christopher Alexander, A Timeless Way of Building, Intro., ch 1, ch 4.
Categories George Lakoff. Women, Fire and Dangerous Things, ch 1, ch 2.
Cybernetics Systems Humberto Maturana & Francisco Varela, Tree of Knowledge
Simulation

Jean Baudrillard, Simulacraand Simulations, HTML

Virtual Reality readings

Michael Heim, The Essence of VR

Anti-System

Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus

Introduction: Rhizome

   
Spacetime Albert Einstein
Time

Bergson, Duration and Simultaneity

Alan Lightman, Einstein's Dreams

Phenomenology

David W. Smith, (with Ronald McIntyre.) Husserl and Intentionality: A Study of Mind, Meaning, and Language. Dordrecht, Holland; Boston: Reidel, 1982. 2d ed. paperback, 1984, Chapter 3, pp 93-104.

Heidegger, "The Question Concerning Technology."

Speech and Writing Jacques Derrida, "Signature Event Context," "Différance"
Speech and Writing

Roy Harris, Signs of Writing

EugeneGendlin, "How Philosophy Cannot Appeal to Experience, and How It can"

Urbanism Philip Jodidio, Building a New Millenium; Simon Sadler, Situationist City; New urbanism, Charter; Christopher Alexander, Urban Design
Hybrid architecture Probable Geometry; Les Temps Precaire; LA Experiment