Unmechanical Behaviours

Unmechanical Behaviours is an editorial project that explores the aesthetics, poetics, and entropy of machines in decline. In an age dominated by flawless automation and algorithmic perfection, this book dwells on glitches, malfunctions, and the imperfect gestures of obsolete, broken, or out-of-control technologies.

Through a collection of images, theoretical texts, narrative fragments, and artistic contributions, the volume investigates the moment when mechanics cease to function as intended and reveal a human—almost emotional—dimension. Malfunction becomes language; decay transforms into expressive form.

Unmechanical Behaviours offers a visual and conceptual reflection on the end of technological determinism: a gallery of weary machines, twitching robots, jammed mechanical arms, and algorithms stumbling into chaos. Objects that, in failing their original purpose, acquire an unexpected subjectivity.

The project stands at the crossroads of speculative design, post-industrial archaeology, and visual storytelling, serving as both an imaginative archive and a critical document of our evolving relationship with the mechanical.

"Not everything that is broken is useless. Sometimes, in the glitch, a new form of life emerges."