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“A theory class on Matias del Campo forced a difficult question: are we using AI, worshipping it, or finally ready to conduct it?“ Part I — The Machine We Do Not See Simondon and the two ways we fail the machine Matias del Campo is an architect, educator, and co-founder of SPAN. His practice sits … Read more
A Reading of What Is a Dispositif? and The Arcades Project Context This document presents a combined reading of two texts: Gilles Deleuze’s What Is a Dispositif? (1992) and Walter Benjamin’s The Arcades Project — specifically the Exposé of 1935, Paris, the Capital of the Nineteenth Century. These texts were not written in conversation with … Read more
A close reading to a Herbert A. Simon’s 1962 essay “The architecture of complexity” paper. Simon was a polymath: economist, cognitive scientist, organization theorist, AI pioneer, and design thinker. The paper moves across domains rather than staying inside one discipline, searching for structural patterns shared by very different complex systems. Context: AI as a Complex … Read more
The promise of AI agents is compelling: systems that can sense their environment, plan strategically, take action, and learn from experience. But as organizations begin deploying these systems in production, a troubling reality emerges. The very capabilities that make AI agents powerful—their ability to reason, adapt, and solve novel problems—also make them frustratingly unpredictable. This … Read more
Have you ever wondered what exactly makes up the digital spaces we interact with every day? Based on a recent presentation exploring Yuk Hui’s work, “On the Existence of Digital Objects,” we are diving deep into the philosophical and technical origins of our modern digital world. This fascinating overview bridges computational structures (often called ontologies … Read more
PART 01. THE INTERNET AS DESIRE PATH PART 02. MEET ARI MELENCIANO PART 03. DECOLONIAL LINEAGE PART 04. GLISSANT & OPACITY PART 05. THE TOOLS PART 06. TENSIONS, AGI & DISCUSSION
A theory review of Chapter 18 of Russell & Norvig’s Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach This chapter was assigned for the AIA Theory seminar at the beginning of the MaCAD 2025–2026 program, as part of a sequence of foundational readings on artificial intelligence. The seminar pairs canonical AI literature with discussion around its implications for … Read more
