Manifesto of the Alien Body
Manifesto of the Alien Body
By Grégory Taousson
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Torn between the winds of entropy and the pulse of reinvention, the body fractures, unspools, breaks free. It is not destruction but mutation, not disappearance but proliferation. What was once solid is now turbulence—skin unraveling into tendrils of something neither human nor machine, neither past nor future, but an alien becoming, an emergence without origin, without end.
This is the architecture of the inhuman—a new embodiment where flesh is no longer a boundary but a breach, where the corporeal collapses into pure flux. The figure ascends, shedding remnants of its former self like obsolete code, dissolving into an architecture of shifting realities. Identity flickers between material and mirage, between presence and erasure, between what was and what should have never been.
The alien is not an intruder. It is not an arrival. It has always been here, lurking beneath the skin, encoded in the fractures of memory, the ruptures of form. The digital does not replace the organic; it infiltrates, mutates, disfigures it into something unrecognizable. Not as parasite, not as prosthetic, but as insurgency. The visions of Ernst rupture into neural landscapes, feeding an artificial subconscious—recursive, devouring, recomposing. Nostalgia is not refuge but rupture, a blade slicing through the illusion of stability, exposing the raw mechanics of transformation.
This is Embodied Reality undone—where the body is no longer an anchor but a fault line, no longer a relic but an alien artifact, endlessly rewriting itself in the void.
About Grégory Taousson
Gregory Taousson is a French architect with over twenty years of international experience, having completed projects in the United States, France, Germany, and the Middle East. Since 2010, his academic engagements at the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts (ALBA) and the École Supérieure d'Architecture de Beyrouth at Saint Joseph University (USJ) have allowed him to intertwine architectural practice with intellectual inquiry, teaching studio courses, architectural history, and the transformative role of artificial intelligence in design.
Taousson's recent explorations delve into the profound ontological shifts brought forth by artificial intelligence and digital art. His work not only reexamines his own discipline but also seeks to deepen our understanding of the individual's place in the vast theater of modern existence. At the heart of his approach lies a philosophical meditation on the dissolution of boundaries—between architecture and cinema, literature and urban space, history and speculative futures. Through this lens, he repositions the individual within an era where identity, space, and perception are continuously reshaped by the intangible forces of computation and artificial cognition.
For Gregory Taousson, AI is a tool to transcend the constraints of growing knowledge specialization. It is a pathway back to the Renaissance ideal of the Universal Man, a reawakening of the polymathic spirit in an age often fractured by hyper-specialization. His work oscillates between familiarity and estrangement, nostalgia and disruption—an invitation to rethink our humanity in a world where the digital and the tangible, the organic and the artificial, no longer stand in opposition but exist in symbiotic entanglement.