An Open Issue

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Notes

¹ Architecture and Culture, “Aims and Scope,” http://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=aimsScope&journalCode=rfac20#.VzI6G2Nsaf5/.

² Umberto Eco, The Open Work, trans. Anna Cancogni (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1989), 22–3.

³ Mark Dorrian, “What’s Interesting? On the Ascendancy of an Evaluative Term” (in this issue), 173, 175.

⁴ Ibid., 180.

⁵ Geraldine Dening and Simon Elmer, “Geopoetry: Greenwich Peninsular” (in this issue), 197.

⁶ Ibid., 221.

⁷ The Greenwich Peninsular development includes the privately owned Peninsular Square and university buildings funded by private corporations; access is hardly open.

⁸ Dorrian, “What’s Interesting?” 181.

⁹ While Torres-Campos does not explicitly mention Michel Foucault’s Archaeology of Knowledge, Foucault’s arguments have been a reference for a number of our contributors. Robert Mugerauer, for instance, writes that “in Foucault’s terms we have discourses (the law; insurance policies) and non-discursive practices, especially anthropotechnologies,” that together “are intended to function by immunizing us from life’s dangers” (Robert Mugerauer, “Anthropotechnology: Sloterdijk on Environmental Design and the FoamWorlds of Co-Isolation,” in this issue, 229). Anthropotechnologies are based on systems rather than discourse, but what they may do is allow for open discourse to take place (with Sloterdijk, Mugerauer focuses on our world wide webs of possible interconnection). In Torres-Campos’ work, the systems pursued are representational, and therefore simultaneously factual/instrumental and poetic/discursive.

¹⁰ Rachel Armstrong, “The Ecological Being: Anandgram and the Expanded Leprous Body” (in this issue), 255.

¹¹ Bernard Tschumi, in Gordana Fontana-Giusti, “The Landscape of the Mind: An Interview with Bernard Tschumi” (in this issue), 270.

¹² Renata Tyszczuk, “Open Field: Documentary Game,” in Architecture and Field/Work, ed. Suzanne Ewing, Jérémie Michael McGowan, Chris Speed and Victoria Clare Bernie (New York: Routledge, 2011), 99.

¹³ Rosalind Krauss, “Sculpture in the Expanded Field,” in The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1986), 277.