A Network Megastructure (world). There’s a very telling point in Bratton’s text, where transoceanic network cables and explicitly compared to Superstudios Continuous Movement. While Superstudio agglomerated all parts of society in a singular envelope spanning on for seemingly eternity, the network cable connects one set of networks to another. If our life is lived inside a network, and if our lives continually move in the direction that they have been, does the physical environment at some point become engulfed by the digital environment. Does architecture survive in a future society where the physical aspect of the human and thus the space it occupies becomes so irrelevant that it simply does not matter. You’re born, you’re inserted into the network and its what you occupy and know, bio-mechanisms all taken care of if only to support your continued existence in the network.
11.19.2015