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The Illusion of Thinking Without a Body
Intelligence is often linked to complexity. What seems complicated is often seen as profound, and quick, efficient operations are often considered signs of intelligence. However, it’s crucial to distinguish between complexity and complication. Complexity is inherent in living systems, where multiple processes are interconnected and change dynamically. Complication, on the other hand, can be artificially…
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Mutations of the Visible: A Future Archaeology of Publishing
Introduction What if publishing, far from being a stable industry of books and journals, were instead a fleeting adaptation—an evolutionary gesture that changes as humanity itself mutates? What if the future of publishing had less to do with innovations in digital media and more to do with the transformation of human perception, memory, and imagination?…
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The Studio as Material Node: Toward a Sustainable Infrastructure for Hybrid Publishing
The contemporary design studio operates within shifting conditions that challenge its historical foundations. No longer simply a workshop of form-making or visual communication, the studio is increasingly drawn into complex entanglements—technological, ecological, social—that demand critical reflection and adaptive practice. It becomes a site of situated inquiry: a space where infrastructures are made visible, where hybridities…
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Publishing Futures * By Luís Alegre 