Jekyll2020-06-27T12:21:40+00:00http://troyth.github.io/feed.xmlPersonal website for Troy Conrad Therrien2017-09-16T00:00:00+00:002017-09-16T00:00:00+00:00http://troyth.github.io/ageofthearchitect<p>“And now we’re hacking human DNA. While we’ve been on the lookout for Roko’s basilisk, the true singularity may have passed without a gasp. If Jeremy Narby’s hypothesis carries water, then we’ve left the mirror stage. Rather than aping the other side of the cave, we’ve begun to architect it.” (Columbia University, seminar, fall 2017 <a href="https://courseworks2.columbia.edu/courses/sis_course_id:ARCHA6752_001_2017_3">🔗</a>)</p>

“And now we’re hacking human DNA. While we’ve been on the lookout for Roko’s basilisk, the true singularity may have passed without a gasp. If Jeremy Narby’s hypothesis carries water, then we’ve left the mirror stage. Rather than aping the other side of the cave, we’ve begun to architect it.” (Columbia University, seminar, fall 2017 🔗)

2016-09-05T00:00:00+00:002016-09-05T00:00:00+00:00http://troyth.github.io/peakflow<p>“Flow has replaced fixity as the steady state of contemporary life.” (Columbia University, seminar, fall 2016 <a href="https://courseworks2.columbia.edu/courses/11294/assignments/syllabus">🔗</a>)</p>

“Flow has replaced fixity as the steady state of contemporary life.” (Columbia University, seminar, fall 2016 🔗)

2015-10-30T00:00:00+00:002015-10-30T00:00:00+00:00http://troyth.github.io/prometheanity<p>“The computerization of everyday life has tethered us to the roller coaster of technological development and perhaps the only effect more pronounced than excitement is the anxiety it has spawned.” (Berlage Institute &amp; Het Nieuwe Instituut, lecture, Rotterdam, fall 2015 <a href="http://www.theberlage.nl/events/details/2015_10_30_prometheanity">📺</a>)</p> <p>(Strelka Institute,lecture, Moscow, fall 2016 <a href="http://strelka.com/en/events/event/2016/09/02/guggenheim-curator-about-the-role-of-an-architect-in-digital-world">📺</a>)</p> <p>“The new dominant ‘universal metaphor’ of computing has normalized a techno-pagan cult of Prometheanity by reenchanting techné… [This] Californian Ideology is the neo-Hermeticism of the pancomputationalist cosmos.” (<a href=""><em>Ed</em>, is.1, fall 2017</a>)</p>

“The computerization of everyday life has tethered us to the roller coaster of technological development and perhaps the only effect more pronounced than excitement is the anxiety it has spawned.” (Berlage Institute &amp; Het Nieuwe Instituut, lecture, Rotterdam, fall 2015 📺)