Power Architecture

Definition

The iPhone is a piece of what we might call power architecture. Power commodity aesthetics. A persons external devices now allow them to move faster and better (if used correctly) compressing repetitive tasks into simpler things, freeing time (or complicating it).

Interface culture is now occurring when with the rise of fractal prosthetics. We have screens inside of machines, protheses inside of protheses. Software, the liquid manifestation of our prosthetic devices.

Lev Maovich's "Visual Technologies as Cognitive Prostheses: A Short History of the Externalization of the Mind" tracks how over the last century and a half visual technologies - from photography and film to contemporary experiments in computer-image systems, cognitive psychology, and neuroscience -- invent or fabricate models through which it becomes possible to "externalize the functions of consciousness" (10).

Less liability - multiple lifetimes in A market can be altered by co-creating objects one human. Compression of time and by a dynamic feedback loop that gets smaller space. On-demand body with each advance in microblogging parts/extensions one can purchase, communication

The Prosthetic Impulse

Exteriorizing human functionality. Attention online is an organization of energy, inlinks, movement towards something. systems with energy efficiency can get things done more quickly than others. Less liability - multiple lifetimes in one human. Compression of time and space. On-demand body parts/extensions one can purchase, ready-made.