para_site – beside, near, past, beyond or contrary locus
para_sight – beside, near, past, beyond or contrary notion
parasite – symbiotic relationship between organisms (architectures) of different orientations
Parasitology – as Kostas Terzidis put it in a recent chat in the desert of Taliesin West – is a dialog initiated in a strong and urgent observation that architectural theory has reached an unexpected expiry of dogmatic structure and has entered a reality of disparate and often mutually exclusive notional rants. Out of this dialog, I expect a sort of manifesto that calls for the preservation of this void in theory that energizes a forum for experimentation, and resists forces that create platforms for dogmatic or ulterior-motive theory.
The interconnected, dysfunctioning, and volatile systemic collapses that we are witnessing ever so frequently, prompts ridding the term parasite of its negative connotation and exploring it as Eris’ apple in an emerging tendency to a unified theory. Old patterns decay. Parasitic theory preserves this emerging void for the purpose of relentless experimentation.
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