always elsewhere, never hereModern men and women, do we still think of the future? Such untangible thing it seems to be - Fu-tu-re. Half of our memories are digitised and stored on the smart devices, clouds, and hard drives. As least half of our communication is virtual, mediated, remote. We can travel more, faster, quicker, cheaper and have fellows and followers from any corner of the planet. It's hard to imagine even the near future (lets say - 20 years from now), as there's no real pattern or thread to follow. Society, which runs for fast progress, fast fashion, fast food, and fast appreciation tends to leave it's traces all over the world. But who's gonna be here to collect our digital dusts and make sense of it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1976 Manfredo Tafuri "Cesi n'est pas une ville" Lotus International 13 Analysing Rene Magritte's series of drawings, Ceci n'est pas une pipe, Michel Foucault recognizes in them a sort of "calligramme" reversed on to itself to the point of self-destruction. The "calligramme" is apparently intended to delete the oppositions of our alphabetical tradition. It shows and it names, depicts and says, imitates and signifies, entices one's eyes and invites them to read. But in Magritte's drawing the writing in the calligramme rejects this game and reassumes its natural place. It is in fact set at the base of the composition: "là où il sert de support à l'image, où il la nomme, l'explique, la d'compose, l'insère dans la suite des textes et dans les pages du livre. Il redevient 'légende'. Le forme, elle, remonte à son ciel don’t la complicité des lettres avec l'espace l'avait fait un unstant descendre: libre de toute attache discursive, elle va flotter à nouveau dans son silence natif." The calligramme would appear to be intended to abolish the distance between languages and, with seemingly lucid intent, to recompose the differences between the different "ordres des discours", Magritie's drawing reveals the inherent utopia of this operation. ... (source: http://www.quondam.com) |
“Our bodyis not in space like things; it inhabits or haunts space. It applies itself to space like a hand to an instrument, and when we wish to move about we do not move the body as we move an object. We transport it without instruments as if by magic since it is ours and because through it we have direct access to space. For us the body is much more than an instrument or a means; it is our expression in the world, the visible form of our intentions.” Categories
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