Theorem. A case for an anthology today
- Autores: Giacomo Pala
- Localización: Critic-all III International Conference on Architectural Design & Criticism: digital Proceedings / Silvia Colmenares Vilata (dir.), Luis Rojo (dir.), 2018, págs. 128-135
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
My presentation will concern an anthology of theoretical texts I have curated for Viceversa Magazine, with the aim of posing general questions related to the ways of producing architectural theory in the time of social media. First, will be introduced three case studies: 1) K.Micheal Hays’ anthology, 2) Harry Francis Mallgrave’s and Christina Contandriopoulos’ and 3) Charles Jencks’ and Karl Kropf’s. This operation is done in order to address a meta-theoretical question: how is theory theorized? what are its ways legitimation? In the first one, it is spotted the idea of a “discourse” (referring to Jürgen Habermas); In the second one, the presence of different discourses; in the third one the critique of the idea of discourse. More specifically, in this one, it will be discussed the status of architectural knowledge today in relation to social media, new ways of producing and sharing knowledge referring to referring to the “media ecology” (including authors such as Manuel Castells or Douglas Rushkoff). In front of this condition, it is presented a work I have been developing in the last months for Viceversa magazine: an anthology of contemporary theory entitled as “Theorem”. The, the idea of the “theorem” is presented as a way of imagining a sort of legitimization of theory that is produced by inquiry and a constant dialogue. Such an objective is attempted by the development of a “critical anthology”: contributors who, besides of selecting a recent text (published since 1989, as the date of the invention of the Internet in Geneva at CERN) have written a critical comment in order to entrench the text in today’s context. In this sense, it is attempted the development of a critical thought in opposition and dialogue with the new ways of producing and sharing theory by the juxtaposition of theory and poetics.
