Accounting for historical formation as intensive formations of a material milieu amounts to nothing less than an ethical project. This paper proposes an ethological approach to architectural arrangements to overcome an impasse in the understanding of the built environment. In its central parts, it respectively revisits two favourite clichés of architectural theory: the Foucauldian dispositif (apparatus) and the Deleuzo-Guattarian agencement (assemblage). By reclaiming their different ontological conceptions of material arrangements, the paper challenges reductive readings of architectural apparatus and advance a more “machinic” reading of architecture. Therein, it proposes a tactical alliance with the flat, monist, and matter-oriented methodologies of such new-materialist theorists as Barad and Braidotti, that help reconsider its arrangements more ecosystemically as “embodied and embedded, relational and affective” figurations. Suggesting a clear theoretical challenge waiting to be taken up, the paper considers how architectural theory could advance such a radically productive conception of the built environment.

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回收建筑的作用：迈向材料安排的行为学和变革性伦理学

将历史形成视为物质环境的密集形成，无异于一项伦理工程。本文提出了一种建筑安排的行为学方法，以克服对建筑环境理解的僵局。在其中心部分，它分别重新审视了建筑理论中最受欢迎的两个陈词滥调：福柯式的处置（装置）和德勒佐-加塔利安的机构（装配）。通过回收他们对材料排列的不同本体论概念，本文挑战了对建筑设备的还原性阅读，并推动了对建筑的更“机械”阅读。其中，它提出了与 Barad 和 Braidotti 等新唯物主义理论家的扁平、一元论和面向物质的方法论的战术联盟，这有助于更生态地重新考虑其作为“具身和嵌入、关系和情感”形象的安排。该论文提出了一个明确的理论挑战有待接受，并考虑了建筑理论如何推进如此具有根本生产力的建筑环境概念。