CONTENTS
Preface ix
Illustration Credits xi
Acknowledgements xii
1. Who?
No longer ourselves 1
Character-defining questions 2
Lines of flight 5
Away from the flock 9
Backgammon 11
Deterritorialization 13
2. Machines 18
Swarming 18
The case of Schrebe 19
The book of the machines 23
Down with trees 25
Abstract machine 28
Immanence 29
Network 32
Thebody 33
3HousePlateau 38
Actual buildings 41
Orpheus and Ariadne 50
Consolidation 53
House, earth, territory 60
4 Facade and Landscape 61
A walk in the mountains 61
White wall, black hole 64
Signifying 74
Radomes 76
Deserts 78
5 City and Environment 80
A little order 80
Environment - milieu 82
Disconnecting 87
Emergent form 94
Form and frame 96
Further Reading 100
Notes 104
Bibliography 108
Index . 119