Category Archives: Apostolos Marios Mouzakopoulos

Digital Techtonics – Material Complexity By Manuel DeLanda – Critical Review

By apostolosmarios | Published: December 6, 2013

swarm-tectonics

 

Seeing the world through a philosophical point of view, concepts such as toughness or rigidity are emergent properties of metalic materials that result from the complex dynamic behaviour of its components. Also dynamics of population of dislocations are closely related to the population dynamics of every entity, despite the big difference in nature and the behaviour of the components, a population of interacting entities, will dispay same collective behaviour as long as the interactions are non linear and also as long as the population operates in a non thermodynamic equilibrium.

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Deleuze and the Genesis of Form

By apostolosmarios | Published: November 23, 2013

 

On this essay Manuel DeLanda is trying to investigate and interpret the work of Gilles Deleuze on the genesis of form. In general the essay is about the generation of form. in particular, Deleuze differentiates form into two categories. the first is the “strata” and the “self-consistent aggregates”. Strata is the concept of the tree. Trees are synthesis of homogeneous elements and provide a form that is predictable and can be explained through mathematics. The self-consistent aggregates are heterogeneous and dynamic mechanisms based on the rhizomes that provide a form which is not predictable in anyway and form dynamic connections to become a collection of mechanisms.

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Saint Jerome_The Desert… The Study

By apostolosmarios | Published: November 9, 2013
Saint Jerome at the Grotto

Saint Jerome at the Grotto

The Habitats of Jerome. The author (Alison Smithson) is trying to analyse and conceive the allegory of the habitats of saint Jerome. People realised that the three habitats can be perceived as allegories came a thousand years after Jerome’s death, during the renaissance. At the time, the habitats became o topic of interest for lots of painters trying to depict the habitats themselves and also the allegory.

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