Beyond digital : design and automation at the end of modernity. / txt
Mario Carpo.
- 199 p. ; ill. ; 21 cm book
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1 Ways of Making -- 1.1 Hand-Making -- 1.2 Mechanical Machine-Making -- 1.3 Digital Making -- 1.4 Beyond the Anthropocene: A New Economy without Scale -- 1.5 The Collapse of the Modern Way of Making -- 1.6 The Teachings of the Pandemic -- 2 The Future of Automation: Designers Redesign Robotics -- 2.1 Florence, 1450: The Invention of Notational Work -- 2.2 America, 1909-1913: Notational Work Goes Mainstream -- 2.3 Taylor's Reinforced Concrete as a Social Project -- 2.4 The Automation of Notational Work -- 2.5 First Steps toward Post-Notational Automation -- 3 A Tale of Two Sciences, or The Rise of the Anti-Modern Science of Computation -- 3.1 The Two Sciences -- 3.2 Modern Architecture and Postmodern Complexity -- 3.3 Architects, Computers, and Computer Science -- 3.4 Degenerate Complexism and the Second Coming of AI -- 3.5 The Limits of AI 2.0 -- 3.6 Machine Learning and the Automation of Imitation -- 3.7 Sorry: There Won't Be a Third Digital Turn Driven by AI -- 4 The Post-Human Chunkiness of Computational Automation -- 4.1 Mechanical Assembly as the Style of Dissent -- 4.2 Modernist Modularity, Postmodernist Collage, and Deconstructivist Aggregation -- Epilogue: Being Post-Digital -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index --
"An analysis of recent developments in computer-based design and production in architecture"--