Entr'acte

Paul Virilio, The European Graduate School, Switzerland Benjamin H. Bratton, University of California, San Diego, USA Nashid Nabian, Harvard University, USA Ricardo Dominguez, University of California, San Diego, USA Jonathan Massey, Syracuse University, USA Brett Snyder, Cheng+Snyder, USA Mabel O. Wilson, Columbia University, USA Mario Gooden, Huff+Golden Architects, USA Omar Khan, University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA Elke Krasny, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria Brenda Laurel, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA Malcolm McCullough, University of Michigan, USA Adrian Blackwell, University of Waterloo, Canada Eduardo Aquino, University of Manitoba, Canada

"Of course, all architecture is performative. Too often, though, this is squeezed into a constricting discourse of functionality. This exhilarating book shows that space - cyber-augmented and globally distributed - is a realm of complex enactment that founds a theatre of life embracing everything from revolution to joy." - Michael Sorkin "Geiger has gathered an impressive array of contemporary thinkers to establish and tease out the reality of living in an age where sedentary structures are exceeded by the mediatized spectacle of our daily lives. These entr'acteurs (themselves operating between varying creative and theoretical practices) expose eddies at the dynamic nexus of geopolitical, financial, technological, and sociocultural forces in order to offer remarkable accounts, insights, and propositions that productively 'play' between the transitory and intransigent as performative spacing." - Dorita Hannah, Research Professor, Interdisciplinary Architecture, Art and Design, University of Tasmania, Australia and Adjunct Professor, Stage and Space, Aalto University, Finland "This is a book that gets under your skin with its kaleidoscopic and densely worded essays on phenomena wherein the urban, the political, media and images interact, or rather: are smashed together. We know that we are living out the last days of a former world order, in politics, in economies, in media, and in the role that architecture has to play in shaping the public sphere. Entr'acte does not reassure, or moralize about where we are going or should be going, but shakes us up with its visions of where we are already, and where we could be going." - Wouter Vanstiphout, Professor, Design and Politics, Technical University Delft, The Netherlands

• Preface: "3 Intervals": Paul Virilio in discussion with Jordan Geiger 1. Entr'acte, Interim, Interstice: Performing Publics and Media Across Scales of Time and Space; Jordan Geiger INTERVAL I: SUPRANATIONAL 2. Cloud Megastructures and Platform Utopias; Benjamin H. Bratton 3. "Hello! My Name Is Sophia," I Am Going to Tweet Democracy, Google My College Degree, and 3-D Print My House! A Speculative Piece on Neo-Republic of Hyper-Individuals in the Near Future; Nashid Nabian 4. Entr'actions: From Radical Transparency to Radical Translucency; Ricardo Dominguez INTERVAL II: INTERURBAN 5. The Hypercity that Occupy Built; Jonathan Massey and Brett Snyder 6. Image Cities Spectacles: Imagining a World Class African City; Mabel O. Wilson and Mario Gooden 7. Crowd Choreographies; Omar Khan 8. Growing the Seeds of Change; Elke Krasny INTERVAL III: TRANSINDIVIDUAL 9. Looking into Nature: Learning and Delight in a STE[A]M Park; Brenda Laurel 10. (Unofficially) Enacting the Commons; Malcolm McCullough 11. Between Plateau and Mirror: A Sound and Projection Field for Daniel Lanois' "Later That Night at the Drive-In"; Adrian Blackwell and Eduardo Aquino