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1.1Architecture is the becoming minor of the major

3.1 Typology is the internalization of external politics and cosmologies by means of conventionalization in dominant spatial strategies.

3.2 According to Deleuze[i], the subversive action of working within a minor language can place a major language in a condition of continuity and variability, in a state of becoming minor itself.

3.3 Within architecture, this deterritorialization of a dominant type opens up the possibility for alternative modes of subjectivity.

9.1 Hegemonic cultural conditions are implicit to dominant architectural type-forms.

9.2 These type-forms condition the experience of space, the playing out of functions, and the interpretation of signs.

9.3 Simply inserting radical, revolutionary alternatives replaces one dominant type with another, the system is absorbed by the cyclical logic of capitalism.

9.4 The goal, therefore, is not novelty for novelty’s sake, but the opening up of possible alternative readings and modes of habitation within existing strictures.

9.5 A resistance to the conditions of capitalist totalization and ideological dominance can be forged by subverting and deterritorializing dominant type-forms.

9.6 It takes two to tango; Deterritorialization does not occur in isolation; it is achieved through the relationship with a repressed other, a minor language latent within the major.

9.7 The process is not uni-directional; it is mutual. Both the dominant and repressed are thrown into states of instability

9.8 The result is a heterotopic space, pregnant with multiple readings, experiences, and possibilities, sending ripples through a larger field of cultural discourse.

9.9 Architecture is the opening up of states of becoming by operating within and against itself.

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[i] See Deleuze, Gilles, and Felix Guattari. A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Trans. Brian Massumi. University of Minnesota Press, 2007. especially pages 104-105, 174-75.