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METU JOURNAL OF THE FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE, vol.25, no.2, pp.119-132, 2008 (AHCI)
In this essay, Modulor is redefined as 'molar'. 'Molar' is the name of the categories of sameness baptised by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari in Anti-Oedipus (Capitalism and Schizophrenia, 1972). The molecular is the machines of deire. Molar elements stabilize the molecular components and make them fixed (Lorraine, 1999,115). Molar thoughts as stable and singular codes of society are the sterile formations of thought. Because of this, one can preserve his/her creative powers only by leaving behind the molar identites which cover and surround the self (Lorraine, 1999, 139, 163). To write is to map. To map is the courage to walk away from the known (traditional / conventional), from the coded. On the other hand, to write, no doubt, comprizes wandering beneath the strata. These sedimentary layers or strata are constitutive for the molar structures. Molar structures or sterile becomings are very complicated -just like the concept of family.