Against Complexity | ENTREPRECARIAT
AI summary of the linked articleThe essay argues against the way "complexity" is used in design, which its author, speaking at a Domus Academy roundtable, calls a cultural practice that reassures professionals rather than clarifying anything. It says talk of growing complexity is unsupported, citing Lee Vinsel's view that professional historians consider the claim unsupportable. It presents the expansion of disciplines and the "proletarianization of the professions," a term Martin Oppenheimer used, as motives for professionals to build ever-more-intricate diagrams. Drawing on Cornelius Castoriadis, it proposes that praxis is an open project rather than a closed plan that depends on a totality. |
1 comment  Well well well. Peter Thiel has long warned of the dangers of specialization and that too much of it leads to not being able to hold our experts accountable for what they say, do, and what opinions they have. |