titanic
The hubris of the Titanic,
Meets the iceberg of fate.
The Titanic is sunk.
And tragedy is victorious.
Archive for February, 2009
27/02/2009
27/02/2009
LAGOS IS HELL
A review of Charlie Koolhaas’s urban photography show “True Cities” in Icon 70.
26/02/2009
NEED GAS
Dear Sir, In 1932 in the Ider Cafe in Berlin, on one of the evenings when I made your acquaintance and shortly before you took power, I showed you roadblocks on a map that was not just a map of geography, roadblocks against me, an act of force aimed in a certain number of [...]
25/02/2009
DERAILED THREAD
The metaphor of the derailing thread is quite interesting. The thread is a train, and the train is a thread. Either, it was going to get somewhere, or sew everything up. But it starts sewing mutantly, and spins into oblivion. The rails are to the thread what the dead are to the living. What [...]
24/02/2009
ORDER ASSURED
For Marcel Proust. – The son of well-to-do parents who, whether from talent or weakness, engages in a so-called intellectual profession, as an artist or scholar, will have a particularly difficult time with those bearing the distasteful title of colleagues. It is not merely that his independence is envied, the seriousness of his intentions [...]
24/02/2009
LEAST INTERESTING
Many people want to claim subalternity. They are the least interesting and the most dangerous. I mean, just by being a discriminated-against minority on the university campus, they don’t need the word ’subaltern’. . . They should see what the mechanics of the discrimination are. They’re within the hegemonic discourse wanting a piece of [...]
23/02/2009
NETWORKED ECOLOGIES
Setting out to understand this city, and by extension, all contemporary cities, we treat it in terms of networked ecologies, a series of codependent systems of environmental mitigation, land-use organization, communication and service delivery. Rather than being executed in conformance with the outline of a plan, they are networked, hypercomplex systems produced by technologies, [...]
