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Cyberception:
Post-biological technologies enable us to become directly involved
in our own
transformation, and are bringing about a qualitative change in our being. The
emergent faculty of cyberception, our artificially enhanced interactions of
perception and cognition, involves the transpersonal technology of global
networks and cybermedia. We are learning to see afresh the processes of
emergence in nature, the planetary media-flow, while at the same time
re-thinking possibilities for the architecture of new worlds. Cyberception not
only implies a new body and a new consciousness but a redefinition of how we
might live together in the interspace between the virtual and the real. Architecture: Western architecture shows too much concern with surface and structures - an arrogant "edificiality" - and is too little aware of the human need for transformative systems. There is no biology of building. A "grow bag" culture is required in which seeding replaces designing, and where architecture finds its guiding metaphors in microsystems and horticulture rather than in monumentality and warfare. Architecture has no response to the realities of cyborg living, or the distributed self, or to the ecology of digital interfaces and network nodes. Cities must become the matrix of new forms of consciousness and of the rhythms and realisations of post-biological life. |