Mireille Roddier
Interested in cycles, degrowth, domesticity, emergence, entropy, indexicality, interdisciplinarity, use-value, oikonomia, origin stories, ostranenie, revolutions, self-organized criticality, thermal mass, and vernaculars.
Supervisors: Walter Benjamin, Carolyn Merchant, Joanna Macy, Pierre Rabhi , bell hooks, Ivan Illich, Thich Nhat Hanh, Vandana Shiva, Stewart Hall, Cornelius Castoriadis, and François Roddier
Supervisors: Walter Benjamin, Carolyn Merchant, Joanna Macy, Pierre Rabhi , bell hooks, Ivan Illich, Thich Nhat Hanh, Vandana Shiva, Stewart Hall, Cornelius Castoriadis, and François Roddier
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Complex system studies have shown that, under a sufficient flow of energy, dissipative structures appear and self-organize into periodic oscillations characteristic not only of Carnot cycles, but also of biological and economic cycles. We have also seen that the emergence of such cycles is the outcome of a common thermodynamic process known as the principle of maximum entropy production (Roddier, 2012). What happens when the flow of energy, which the system has structured itself to dissipate most efficiently, significantly decreases? Here we argue that this unsolicited shortage might be salutary to our interconnected ecosystems if we learn to couple our centrifugal phases of innovation and production with antagonistic centripetal phases of restauration and maintenance. Otherwise, whether we continue to exponentially consume energy from unforeseen new sources, or too abruptly cease all energy consumption without a process of adaptation, our globally interconnected ecosystems may prove too fragile to recover.
The essay is structured according to a three-part progression that begins with the idea of “reading” both the book and city, followed by the notion of “copying,” and ends with the act of “writing” or “re-writing” the scripts that have been heavily rehearsed onto the scenes of the public sphere. It posits that the act of representation is one of appropriation, contending that those who immortalize the streets uphold their ownership of it. It also underscores its corollary: belonging is a product of narrative wars.
Complex system studies have shown that, under a sufficient flow of energy, dissipative structures appear and self-organize into periodic oscillations characteristic not only of Carnot cycles, but also of biological and economic cycles. We have also seen that the emergence of such cycles is the outcome of a common thermodynamic process known as the principle of maximum entropy production (Roddier, 2012). What happens when the flow of energy, which the system has structured itself to dissipate most efficiently, significantly decreases? Here we argue that this unsolicited shortage might be salutary to our interconnected ecosystems if we learn to couple our centrifugal phases of innovation and production with antagonistic centripetal phases of restauration and maintenance. Otherwise, whether we continue to exponentially consume energy from unforeseen new sources, or too abruptly cease all energy consumption without a process of adaptation, our globally interconnected ecosystems may prove too fragile to recover.
The essay is structured according to a three-part progression that begins with the idea of “reading” both the book and city, followed by the notion of “copying,” and ends with the act of “writing” or “re-writing” the scripts that have been heavily rehearsed onto the scenes of the public sphere. It posits that the act of representation is one of appropriation, contending that those who immortalize the streets uphold their ownership of it. It also underscores its corollary: belonging is a product of narrative wars.