new animal machine

The New Animal Machine is the result of necessary human evolution. Moving away from the form we know as the body, we have recoded our composition to match the language of this new world.

If humans aren’t natural but are constructed, like a cyborg, then given the right tools, they can be reconstructed. But being a cyborg isn’t about the freedom to reconstruct oneself. It’s about networks. Cyborgs, like an old forest, are a collection of networks, constantly feeding information back and forth across the lines to the world wide web.²

Entropic Species

The supporting species act as agents of change, chaos, growth, and destruction. They’re the entropy that affects the New Animal Machine. They receive information from the New Animal Machine and send it back recoded.

Entropic species are not the main character but are the most important one. They move through the world in a cybernetic manner. These characters well understand their connection to their home network. They remain in constant conversation with each other, scripting connections through their senses. The connection to the ground as they shift their weight is a moment of communication - forever leaving a trail of residue along the surface of the earth, feeding and communicating with species rooted in it.

Infrastructure

Infrastructure is typically defined as the basic physical and organizational structures and facilities (e.g. buildings, roads, power supplies) needed for the operation of a society or enterprise.⁷ In this world, infrastructure is the residue left over from information exchange between entities. It is the infrastructure - a result of species behavior - that builds the architecture of this world.

Architecture

The human body is by tradition, a first architecture: a dwelling that precedes the worldly habitat.¹ Architecture has looked towards the specific humanity of the body for its telos. When the body is always in a constant flux of animate formation and deformation, the image of stability is only an image of frozen movement.² We stand on a pedestal, which freezes us in time as a sacred entity.

Here, Architecture is a result of entropic energy that moves between characters. It becomes tentacular with an underground network of communication, much like trees in a forest. When one fails, it feeds others and produces new growth. This is what habitation in the Digital Space means. It’s network time is flattened by digital images that map a cosmogram.³

So what is our cosmogram? It is the code behind the scenes. Computation, although not new, can now be utilized by actors as a means of perception⁴. It makes up the Network, which is the web in which all species exist together. In the Network, all species are dependent on each other. The New Animal Machine becomes the coders that pass Entropy and nutrients from system to system and the architecture is the code.