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Machinic Phylum
Project: The Voyager update project
Project: The Voyager update project
To initiate the research of the project, we researched what Machinic Phylym essentially "is", and how it pertains to the recreation of the voyager golden disk. The difficulty in this research is that, in itself, Machinic Phylum cannot be defined as clearly as one would hope. Nonetheless, we were able to define, on a somewhat vague and ambiguous scale, what this concept is and how it can be applied:
When applied, Machinic Phylum relates "living things", such as humans, to "non living things" - the rocks, lava or flames...things we associate as life-less. One and the same material "phylum" could be "folded and stretched" to yield all the different structures that inhabit our universe", connecting the earth like one enormous network.
This concept frees us, the designers, from the limit of the human perspective. If Machinic Phylum holds as valid, we have the ability to design from the perspective of a rock, or tree, wind, and will still have the ability to connect our own human existence, tying in as one. Humans are no longer the focus of the story, but only a piece of the whole.
- There are two different meanings of the term, but in its more general sense, it refers to any process in which order emerges out of chaos as a result of its nonlinear dynamics, and by the other hand, is “the flow of matter-movement, the flow of matter in continuous variation, conveying in singularities.” The machine phylum is not a life-force, since is older than life, and constitutes a form of non-organic life. Nevertheless, the self-organization of chemical clocks, multi-cellular organisms or nest-building insect colonies is deeply related to the Machinic phylum.
When applied, Machinic Phylum relates "living things", such as humans, to "non living things" - the rocks, lava or flames...things we associate as life-less. One and the same material "phylum" could be "folded and stretched" to yield all the different structures that inhabit our universe", connecting the earth like one enormous network.
This concept frees us, the designers, from the limit of the human perspective. If Machinic Phylum holds as valid, we have the ability to design from the perspective of a rock, or tree, wind, and will still have the ability to connect our own human existence, tying in as one. Humans are no longer the focus of the story, but only a piece of the whole.
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