Lecture date: 2008-02-07
The psychedelic experience of the trip in the late 1960’s involved an expanded time phenomenon, a sense of ones ability to dwell exponentially in time, or to experience not the sequential passing of time but accelerating rates of change. Historically concomitant both with encountering rapid technological transformations and with the emergence of a shared sense of the spatial expansion of consciousness (or planetary culture) within American counterculture, these radically transformed spacetime relations are perhaps most provocatively manifest within the early work of the architectural collective Ant Farm. This lecture will address the work of these self-professed super radical environmental activists, situating their strategies as historically specific responses to the emergence of a postindustrial milieu.
Felicity Scott is Assistant Professor of Architecture in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University and a founding editor of the journal Grey Room. Scott has published widely in journals and edited anthologies and is the author of Architecture or Techno-Utopia: Politics After Modernism.
