December 2009
15 posts
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what is it
LEBBEUS WOODS I think architecture is about ideas in the first place. You don’t get to design until you have an idea. That idea has to be somewhat comprehensive. There’s always a client asking for a building. If you’re an architect, you’ll design the building. But if you’re a dutiful architect, you first have to question why the building is required. The architect has to take responsibility to...
peripheral..(tbc)
perpetual relentlessness
continuing or enduring forever
everlasting
lasting an indefinitely long time
continuing or continued without intermission or interruption
ceaseless
that does not relent; unyieldingly severe, strict, or harsh; unrelenting:
without context...we are only left to our...
(like clothe in a vintage store)
anna is in a dylanesque mood
anna is in a dylanesque mood while y denies the pull of bukowski but we all know who’s winning he’s a dirty old man but she is only a dirty woman of old you taste it reminding you of someone but she is much prettier than he let me be her as billie chanteuses and mazzy strings too much seratonin and a french phone rings left over chicken kebab snuggling up to corn nobody’s home,...
is this it?
fluorescent capitalism blinks at you hipster boys and trendy girls party outfits and drunken shrills
sharp winkle pickers inside bubbles tenants of glass houses should never throw stones was andy warhol just pretending?
if fantasy becomes reality is reality then fantasy? if dreams substitute for reality what is the definition of insanity?
Typing faster than the mind can think moving faster than the speed of thought
How long does someone have to live their life...
Like 98% of my crushes
magicmolly:
“He was slim and brown and expressionless in a way that let me manufacture complex thoughts for him.”
-Mary Karr, Cherry
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performatism
Transition from metaphysical pessimism to metaphysical optimism; the metaphysical point of orientation is no longer death and its proxies (emptiness, kenosis, absence, dysfunctionality) but rather psychologically experienced or fictionally framed states of transcendence (resurrection, passage to Nirvana, love, catharsis, fulfillment or plerosis, deification etc.
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Houellebecq
Houellebecq exposes the increasingly virulent dualism of postmodern culture by creating two characters completely incapable of love: one is guided entirely by the mind, the other by sex
For more (see here)
the unintended vs the overdetermined?
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displaced architecture
the notion of displacement i find an incredibly interesting one..
does it have anything to do with identity.. a mental space…or rather a search for identity
that until one’s identity is found… there be a perpetual sense of displacement?
does the search of identity relate to the search for purpose?
can the search for identity / purpose become a barrier to existence?
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