(ONCE) UPON (A) PLENITUDE

(ONCE) UPON (A) PLENITUDE
Summoning Commonalities beyond Totality

The comparison between architecture and language is perhaps one of the most recurring clichés of architecture theory. Both language and architecture can in fact be understood as structures resting upon dialectics, as “mediators” of different positions facing off one another. Yet today dialectic entanglements tend to dissociate and tear apart, striving to end their relations for good. Different positions thereby seem to be turning more and more into stark opposition. In such loud escalation of conflictual positions – between man and planet, humanism and materialism, life and technology, culture and nature… . Even science itself seems to be called to take parts, to be therefore one of the many voices screaming against the others. How to find a stability upon such indeterminate, noisy grounds? The Sophistication Conference™ of this year invites to address such topics by looking for how to conceive of measure and moderateness beyond reactionary moralism and conservativeness. Its aim is to rethink the global beyond an immanent agonism of dialectical opposites. (ONCE) UPON(A) PLENITUDE is an invitation to eschew comparative analysis and look at the givenness of terms in the terms of their construction, as a way to make room – to open up a cosmocratic and political space by the means of architectonic articulations – into the loudness of the contemporary.

A Sophistication Conference™ – More info at this link.