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

PERMANENCE

Reading Context

"Biological permanence or the relative permanence acquired through the passage of genetic information from generation to generation, is a form of order. In terms of quantum physics, it must therefore depend on the operation of a large number of atoms. In physics, the co-operation of an enormously large number of atoms is required for statistical laws to begin to operate and control the behavior of these assemblies .... It is in that way the events acquire truly orderly features." "But, as Schrodinger argues living organisms the number of atoms is not large enough to justify the order of hereditary permanence; nor are there enough atoms to, statistically, produce what we apprehend as the orderly coordination of our intellectual life with our hodirs." "In addition, normative human perception is very crude compared to the microscopic dimensions of atomic theories of matter. In fact, incredibly small groups of atoms, much too small to display exact statistical laws ... play a dominating role in the very orderly and lawful events within a living organism."1

Garbage City Context

The Zabbaleen are Coptic Christians which they have kept since they migrated from Dakhla Oasis to Mokattam Village. Their religion has found its way into their garbage culture. They believe its God's plan to recycle. Therefore, garbage collecting is not just recycling but a part of their religious culture which has manifested into a garbage culture which both have been passed down generations and will continue to be passed down to future generations. In order for the Garbage Culture to remain with the Zabbaleen the Zabbaleen and the citizens of Cairo all need to share involvement in doing so. Like the small atoms that makeup our orderly body, Cairo and the Zabbaleen makeup the Garbage Culture. Cairo needs to produce garbage for the Zabbaleen and the Zabbaleen need to be allowed to recycle the garbage. One could say the people in the area are atoms of the Garbage Culture. One could even go further and say people are the building blocks of all culture. In this situation, the people are behind the permanence of the Garbage Culture.

Citations
Ingraham, Catherine. Architecture, Animal, Human: The Asymmetrical Condition. 2006, Routledge. pp.2-3