Thomas Mical has taught architectural theory, film theory, surrealism, schizoanalysis, and trans-disciplinary doctoral research methods over 3 decades as a tenured professor in the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and now India. He has held fellowships at the Architectural Association (UK), London School of Economics (UK), Fulbright (Germany) Getty Center (US), and Dumbarton Oaks (US). He has recently joined as Adjunct Professor at the National Institute of Advanced Studies-Bangalore Center for Consciousness Studies.
Publications:
- Soft Desiring-Machines in the Machinic Phylum, a Schizo-Adventure (in progress)
- Everyday Magical Architecture, 2015
- Genius, Genus, Genealogy: Hejduk’s Potential Angels (2005)
- Surrealism and Architecture (2005)
- Stealth Landscapes (1992)
Areas of Interest:
Posthumanism, Schizoanalysis, Surrealism, Ecosophical Aesthetics, Speculative Landscapes, Cienamtic Science Fiction Futures, and Synchronicity.
Statement of Interest:
My work revolves around rethinking the rich dynamic ecologies of interiority (mind) and exteriority (nature) considered through interface theory through a multiplicity of creative/artistic works that reveal the pooling of durations and lived intensive order de-forming this interface. From decades of work on surrealism to schizoanalysis to speculative futures, we try to triangulate emergent futures across multiple forms of evidence simultaneously, fusing analytics with speculative creation as non-standard investigation and immersion in unorthodox questioning. The original research paradigm evolved from pursuing psychic realism for spatial theory informed by process philosophy (incl. intensity and duration, nonlinear editing, and diagrammatic subjectivities). Today the critical posthumanism we explore involves the situatedness, intensities, field theory, invisible contexts, flows and and mutations of concepts as entities demonstrated through theory-fictioning.