Mark Wigley
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View article: The potential importance of the built-environment microbiome and its impact on human health
The potential importance of the built-environment microbiome and its impact on human health Open
There is increasing evidence that interactions between microbes and their hosts not only play a role in determining health and disease but also in emotions, thought, and behavior. Built environments greatly influence microbiome exposures b…
View article: Notes
Notes Open
I discuss the spatial politics of the
View article: "And" Anarchitectures
"And" Anarchitectures Open
Architecture and Philosophy are so deeply entangled with each other that the “and” between them at once splits and rejoins a single common fabric. This enigmatic joint, and the mutual jealousies, clumsiness, and blindness it puts in motion…
View article: The Bacterial Clients of Modern Architecture
The Bacterial Clients of Modern Architecture Open
The human is an unstable idea; simultaneously an all-powerful creature – capable of transforming the whole ecology of the planet – yet extremely fragile, a murky ghost. Contemporary research into our microbiome portrays the human itself as…
View article: Are We Human? Notes on an Archaeology of Design
Are We Human? Notes on an Archaeology of Design Open
The mirror of design: spiderwebs, sediments radiation, extinction self-surveillance -- The plastic human: plasticity, strange artifacts interface -- Blows of design: technofossils, prehistory genetic continuum hands, ornament sexual select…
View article: Discursive versus Immersive: The Museum is the Massage
Discursive versus Immersive: The Museum is the Massage Open
We live in an age in which everyday life is suspended within countless overlapping flows of information. Each of these overlapping flows operates as an immersive environment and as a discursive system of detection, analysis and visualizati…