Quoted: Both the tree and the semilattice are ways of thinking about how a large collection of many small systems goes to make up a large and complex system. More generally, they are both names for structures of sets.

Quoted: In such ideas, one finds a bridge between his inescapable moral imperative to break with a destructive fantasy-world through a decisive Act, and his recognition that the conditions for action, for the shaping of the site événementiel must be created through a long history of much less dramatic but no less decisive Acts. In a sense, this is a shift from revolutionary gesture to revolutionary gestation.

Anarchy has come to mean chaos, even though at root I think it just means without a ruler. But there really does have to be some kind of rule, doesn't there? Also interesting to compare the word anarchy with the word architecture.

Quoted: Anarchist essays by Peter Kropotkin

Quoted: best known for her theory of symbiogenesis, which challenges a central tenet of neodarwinism. She argues that inherited variation, significant in evolution, does not come mainly from random mutations. Rather new tissues, organs, and even new species evolve primarily through the long-lasting intimacy of strangers. The fusion of genomes in symbioses followed by natural selection, she suggests, leads to increasingly complex levels of individuality.

Interesting early ideas on the role of cooperation in evolution.

Quoted: Spheres are the spaces where people actually live. I would like to show that human beings have, till today, been misunderstood, because the space where they exist has always been taken for granted, without ever being made conscious and explicit.

Quoted: International space station assembly a collective construction site

Quoted: Grima came to Storefront in 2007 from Milan, where he edited Domus magazine. A graduate of the Architectural Association in London, he’s now working on a PhD at the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths College, University of London. His first show at Storefront was in April 2007—photos of Soviet modernist relics—and since then Grima has overseen a blogger lecture series, a citywide bike-sharing project, and the construction of a 250,000-piece Lego tower, among other shows.

Quoted: cover of lacanian ink 33, links to excerpts of its articles