Forward: The Temporal Domain of the Body

Last week, the long-awaited Spring 2010 publication of Forward - a journal by the AIA Associates - was finished and is now available online as a PDF. I have an article in it entitled “The Temporal Domain of the Body,” in which I discuss the recent phenomenon of sensuality in architecture for its own sake and the loss of the self into the accoutrements of space, as the dominant temporal frame under late capitalism has been reduced to the fleeting experiences of the human body.

I think I probably bit off a lot for this piece, which may have been more than I could chew, but the editor seemed happy with it and for me it was a great exercise in getting me to think (and write!) critically again after having been out of school for seven years. The arrangement of the images in the journal is a little bit off and two of them were actually supposed to have been deleted but overall the journal is nicely executed. I have nothing but praise for the editors, Christina Noble and Sage Sobel, who made very thoughtful and concise comments on my writing, allowing it read with greater clarity, as well as providing me with the opportunity to submit! I’d also like to thank Kazys Varnelis for opening up the world of network culture to me last summer at the netlab; it it a field of study which I understood intuitively but previously hadn’t possessed the framework for comprehending it with language and potency. I still have a long way to go but I can say with certainty that my thinking has jumped in leaps and bounds since then.

In other news, as of this week I will be a contributor the The Urban Times, a brand new blog started by a couple of highly ambitious UCL graduates. I look forward to keeping the thought process chugging along in this venue with regular postings; it is too late to turn away from the world again at this point in my life!