Lexicon

Abject
Accretion
Actant
Aeration
Aerobic
Algae-boosted
Animal
Anthropomorphism
Anti-Continuous Construction
Apocalypse
Aquaculture
Aquanaut
Ark
Artificial Intelligence
Autopoiesis
Assemblages
Asymmetry
Atrophy
Attraction
Autarchy
Automata
Automation
Autosymbiosis
Bambassador
Bathyscaphe
Bioconurbation
Biomedia
Bionics
Biosphere
Biotechnique
By-product
Capacity
Actant
Coisolation
Composting
Conservative Surgery
Consumer Envelope
Consumption
Continuous Construction
Conurbation
Correalism
Cultural_Memory
Cybernetics
Cybertecture
Cyborg
Dispositif
Diving Saucer
Dross
Earthship
Ecocatastrophe
Effluvium
Egosphere
End-use
Entanglement
Eutopia
Feedback
Foam
Folk
Gadget
Garbage House
Green Cyborg
Heuristic
Hoard
Holism
Homogenization of Desire
Hostile
Human Affect
Hybridized Folk
Hydroponic
Hyper-Materialism
Information Economy
Inner Space
Interama
Intra-Uterine
Maque
Megalopolis
Min-use
Mobility
Monorail
Multi-Hinge
Non-Design
Oceanaut
Oppositional Consciousness
Organic
Ouroboros
Panarchy
Parasite
Perceived Continuation
Permanence
Place
Prototype
Post-Animal
Reclamation
RI: Data Farms
RI: Garbage and Animals
RI:Shipbreaking
RI: Toxic Sublime
Sampling
Scale
Sensing Structure
Simulacrum
Simulation
Soft Energy
Spaceship Earth
Submersible
Superwindow
Symbiosis
Synthetic Environment
Technocratic
Technological Heredity
Technological Sublime
Telechirics
The Sublime
Thermal Panel
Actant
Thing-Power
Thinking Machines
Tool
Toxic Withdrawal
Turbulence
UV-Transparent Film
Vibrant Matter
Waste
Work

Biomedia

“Biomedia”1 is a publication by Eugene Thacker, philosopher and professor at The New School in New York. He defines Bio media as “....biotech practices that focuses on the body as a medium. Not simply as a technological instrumentalization of the (natural, biological) body, but as a unique domain in which biology is a technology , a better technology than any we can build ”. This concept re interprets the materiality of informatics. Thacker emphasizes “ Not just that the medium is the message, but that biology is the new medium: the medium is a message, and that message is a molecule”. The development of autonomous, heuristic systems that can support human life in extreme conditions will rely heavily on involving the human organism itself as part of its technology. Project horizon2 through experiments realized that the cyclical maintenance and control of organic input and output cycles is a complex task. One in which one could not undermine the value of elements down to their perceived functional qualities.

1 Eugene Thacker, “What is Biomedia?,” Configurations 11, pp. 47-79.
2 United States Army. "Project Horizon: Summary and Supporting Considerations." Vers. Volume 1. US Army Center of Military History. March 20, 1959.