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The 3D Additivist Manifesto (2015) and Cookbook (2016) are the result of a collaboration between Morehshin Allahyari, Daniel Rourke and a growing array of critical creators. We refigured the 3D Printer in a similar vein to Donna Haraway’s Cyborg (from her influential 1984 text, A Cyborg Manifesto). Our aim being to disrupt material, social, computational, and metaphysical realities through provocation, collaboration, and ‘weird’ / science fictional thinking.
3D fabrication can therefore be considered as the critical framework of #Additivism. The 3D printer is a profound figure for our times. A technology for channeling creative endeavour, through digital processes, into the layering of raw matter excavated from ancient geological eras. Considered as a tool for art, design and engineering, and gesturing towards a forthcoming era of synthetic chemistry and biological augmentation, 3D fabrication technologies are already a site of common exchange between disciplines and material modalities. #Additivism questions whether it’s possible to change the world without also changing ourselves, and what the implications are of taking a position.
Bibliography / Reading List
1 William Powell, The Anarchist Cookbook
2 Philip K. Dick, Pay for the Printer / Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
3 F.T. Marinetti, The Manifesto of Futurism
4 Samuel Butler, Darwin Among the Machines
5 Evelyn Fox-Keller, Refiguring Life
6 John Gray, Straw Dogs
7 Stanislaw Lem, Solaris
8 Rosi Braidotti, Metamorphoses: Towards a Materialist Theory of Becoming
9 Reza Negarestani, Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials
10 Donna Haraway, A Cyborg Manifesto
11 Stephen Jay Gould & Elisabeth S. Vrba, Exaptation: A Missing Term in the Science of Form
12 Susan Sontag, The Imagination of Disaster
13 Benjamin Bratton, Some Trace Effects of the Post- Anthropocene: On Accelerationist Geopolitical Aesthetics
14 Henri Bergson, Creative Evolution
15 Anna Greenspan & Suzanne Livingston, Future Mutation: Technology, Shanzai and the Evolution of Species
16 Donna Haraway, Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Chthulucene: Staying with the Trouble
17 Christina Reed, Dawn of the Plasticene Age
18 Svetlana Boym, The Off-Modern Mirror
19 Jorge Luis Borges, The Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge &
Michel Foucault, The Order of Things
20 Georges Bataille, The Accursed Share
The 3D Additivist Manifesto was created by Morehshin Allahyari and Daniel Rourke, with sound design from Andrea Young.
The Manifesto is publish under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0 licence