The Nature of Digital Architectural Life: Confounding the Threshold between Physus and Nomos

In her seminal book, The Human Condition, Hannah Arendt draws a distinction between Animal Laborans and Homo Faber. Where Homo Faber is the fabricator of the human world, working with her hands such that the earth is transformed into world, Animal Laborans labours away incessantly in order to sustain the very possibility of the continuance of his life. Arendt also describes an important operational concept that has become even more pertinent of late with respect to (post)digital architectural design production: process.