Intro -- Acknowledgements -- The Four Domains of the Plane of Consistency -- Introduction: A Research into Human-Machine Technologies -- Architecture's Dream of a Bio Future -- PART I Architecture -- CHAPTER 1 Urban Correlationism: A Matter of Access -- CHAPTER 2 Housing Biopolitics and Care -- CHAPTER 3 Amorphous Continua -- PART II Robotics -- CHAPTER 4 Robots Don't Care: Why Bots Won't Reboot Architecture -- CHAPTER 5 The Convivial ART of Vortical Thinking -- CHAPTER 6 Emotive Embodiments -- PART III Medicine -- CHAPTER 7 Ecologies of Corporeal Space -- CHAPTER 8 Swimming in the Joint -- CHAPTER 9 Key-Hole Surgery: Minimally Invasive Technology -- PART IV Philosophy -- CHAPTER 10 Elasticity and Plasticity: Anthropo-design and the Crisis of Repetition -- CHAPTER 11 Automata, Man-machines and Embodiment: Defl ating or Inflating Life? -- CHAPTER 12 Generative Futures: On Affirmative Ethics -- Notes on Contributors -- Index
Summary
Critical and Clinical Cartographies rethinks medical and design pedagogies in the context of both the Affective and Digital Turns that are occurring under the umbrella of New Materialism. This collection is framed through Deleuze's symptomalogical approach which creates the ideal terrain for architecture and medical technologies of care to meet with robotics, alongside the newly emerging ́'materialist landscape'
