Architectural Body

Preface

“After all this back-and-forth about the title for this book, have we ended up with the right one?” “If only readers could come to it having some sense of what an architectural body is.” “What was our last other choice for a title?” “Constructing Life.” “We couldn’t take it as the title because our work has more to do with recasting or recon¤guring life than with an outand -out constructing of it.” “We wanted it because it signaled the connection between what we do and work being done in the ¤elds of self-organization , autopoiesis, arti¤cial life, and consciousness studies.” “The direction is the same. We’re on the same avenue. Even so, we’re doing something quite different.” “Should we spell out the differences?” “Not this time around.” New York, 2002 Preface ...