Lecture held on 4 of April, 2019.
Over the last decade, a new ontological, social and technological approach has fueled the emergence of Allonomy, a condition that builds on the Kantian notions of heteronomy/autonomy and recognizes decision-making power to all objects, independently of their human, ecologic, zoologic or algorithmic structure. In this scenario, and in relation to contemporaneous experimental architecture, the argument developed here has two steps. First, it relates the allonomous condition to the constitution of a new technological paradigm based on the notion of externality. Second, it defends the impact of this technological shift in the aesthetical realm, re-structucturing it through the categories of “Performance”, “Otherness” and “Asperity”. This reading is applied to some of the most representative contemporary urban and architectural projects developed in academic experimental schools, particularly in Europe and the US.