Structure itself is encountered in becoming...it forms and dissolves continually; it is life arrived at a certain measure of consolidation" (Durkheim)
I'm interested in space: structures, strictures, potentialities, propositions
To build something is to unbuild everything else in that space/time. It proposes an alternative which resonates in that space (through memory) after the object has gone, and may inform future potentialities of that space.
"To some degree, every design is a blueprint for human behaviour and social structure, as well as a schematic of the thing itself"
If architects keep designing dumb ugly buildings will it make the population dumber?
Heidegger: "the past persists through its continued effects on the present, through the foreclosure of unrealised possibilities and through the opening of new grounds of possibility".
The city is also littered with the remnants of obsolete pasts, narratives of existence incapable of continuity. Monuments to the past. Dead-end narratives. Yet built to survive, they continue to stand whilst buildings from this decade visibly crumble.
We exist within an ever dwindling present. Our buildings contain no concept of the future, inbuilt self destruct mechanisms.
Freidmann "In the peculiar form of dystopias utopian thinking may alert us to certain tendencies in the present, which, if allowed to continue unchecked and carried to a logical extreme, would result in a world we would find abhorrent"
caleb thought we should call it "Bathos", I like the word "propositional" What about "Bathos - Are you propositionaling me?"
What's with the blogging cone of silence?
Structure itself is encountered in becoming...it forms and dissolves continually; it is life arrived at a certain measure of consolidation" (Durkheim)
ReplyDeleteI'm interested in space: structures, strictures, potentialities, propositions
To build something is to unbuild everything else in that space/time. It proposes an alternative which resonates in that space (through memory) after the object has gone, and may inform future potentialities of that space.
"To some degree, every design is a blueprint for human behaviour and social structure, as well as a schematic of the thing itself"
...DESIGN...MODEL...PROBLEM...NOT SOLUTION..."To some degree"...PRESENTation OF THING IN ITSELF...
If architects keep designing dumb ugly buildings will it make the population dumber?
...INTERESTiNg...FLAW...IT IS THE ECONOMICK FUNCTIONAL IMPERATIVE...
Heidegger: "the past persists through its continued effects on the present, through the foreclosure of unrealised possibilities and through the opening of new grounds of possibility".
The city is also littered with the remnants of obsolete pasts, narratives of existence incapable of continuity. Monuments to the past. Dead-end narratives. Yet built to survive, they continue to stand whilst buildings from this decade visibly crumble.
...NEITHER REMNANTS OF OBSOLETE PASTS...NOR DEAD-END NARRATIVES...BUT MONUMENTAL BEAUTY...SUBLIME BEAUTY...BEAUTIFUL SUBLIME...STRUCTURALIST SUBLIMITY...ETERNAL HEIDEGGEREAN CLEARINGS...ETERNAL TRUTH...AS ETERNAL IMMUTABILITY...ETERNAL DECAY...GEORGES BATAILLE...DEATH...AND EROTICISM...
We exist within an ever dwindling present. Our buildings contain no concept of the future, inbuilt self destruct mechanisms.
...IRRATIONAL...ECONOMICK IMPERATIVE...IRRATIONAL...IRREALITY...NIHILISTICK...DESPAIRING NIHILISTICKALLY...
Freidmann "In the peculiar form of dystopias utopian thinking may alert us to certain tendencies in the present, which, if allowed to continue unchecked and carried to a logical extreme, would result in a world we would find abhorrent"
...THE SHALLOW DEPTH OF THOUGHT...British Petroleum...DEEP WATER HORIZON AS SPILL NOT GUSHING GEYSER...CONTEMPORARY DUCHAMPIAN ENVIRONMENTAL CATASTROPHICK READY-MADE...LITERAL FOUNTAIN...
caleb thought we should call it "Bathos", I like the word "propositional" What about "Bathos - Are you propositionaling me?"
...HOW ABOUT...EITHER...THE BATHOS PROPOSITION...OR...THE PROPOSITION OF BATHOS...
What's with the blogging cone of silence?
...CASTING...LIMBS...FACE...AND SPITtle...