Thursday, 29 March 2012
Wednesday, 28 March 2012
Megastructures are the Shopping Malls of the Avant-Garde
What About ideal cities, and counter revolutionary master plans?
The avant-garde is a paradoxical state. In order to exist, it relies on its incongruous condition of being both fundamentally contemporary and ahead of its time. A conceptual palimpsest, the avant-garde requires writing its history over its own past keeping a vulnerable balance between present problems, and possible future solutions. All about contextualizing the perfect timing, what happens when the avant-garde goes out of sync; when its solutions are overlooked for being too premature, or ridiculed for being delayed?
In the past century alone, the avant-garde was victim of two untimely appearances. In the first one, its proposals arrived too early; the world was taken aback by the boldness of its ambitions, by the audacity of its delirium. In the second coming, the avant-garde was too late. Here its stratagems were on a futile mission of inventing a program that already existed.
These consecutive setbacks have concealed the potential of a parallel form of urban intelligence that not only is able to complete even the most ambitious truncated plans of the avant-garde in Europe, but that can also propose and achieve a set of alternative and original forms of urbanism. Can a genealogy of key events in the 20th century reveal the potential of this parallel non-European universe, and its relationship to the avant-garde as we know it?
Via Archinect
The avant-garde is a paradoxical state. In order to exist, it relies on its incongruous condition of being both fundamentally contemporary and ahead of its time. A conceptual palimpsest, the avant-garde requires writing its history over its own past keeping a vulnerable balance between present problems, and possible future solutions. All about contextualizing the perfect timing, what happens when the avant-garde goes out of sync; when its solutions are overlooked for being too premature, or ridiculed for being delayed?
In the past century alone, the avant-garde was victim of two untimely appearances. In the first one, its proposals arrived too early; the world was taken aback by the boldness of its ambitions, by the audacity of its delirium. In the second coming, the avant-garde was too late. Here its stratagems were on a futile mission of inventing a program that already existed.
These consecutive setbacks have concealed the potential of a parallel form of urban intelligence that not only is able to complete even the most ambitious truncated plans of the avant-garde in Europe, but that can also propose and achieve a set of alternative and original forms of urbanism. Can a genealogy of key events in the 20th century reveal the potential of this parallel non-European universe, and its relationship to the avant-garde as we know it?
Via Archinect
A Year In The Mix: The Future Of Oz Mix (1990)
2. Pleasure - Please (Future Mix)
3. Solid Gold Easy Amex feat. Red Box - Enjoy (Future Mix)
4. Gary Clail (On-U Sound System) feat. Bim Sherman - Beef (Future Mix)
5. Gino Latino - Welcome (Land Of Oz Excursion Mix)
6. The Shamen - Pro>gen (Land Of Oz Mix)
7. Amina - Belly Dance (Land Of Oz Mix)
8. Jesus Loves You - Generations Of Love (Land Of Oz Mix)
9. INXS - Suicide Blonde (Milk Mix)
10. Max Q - Sometimes (Land of Oz Mix)
11. Lynda Law - I Don't Want Your Love (Land Of Oz Mix)
12. Sunsonic - Kind Of Loving (Land Of Oz Mix)
13. Cabaret Voltaire - Keep On (Land Of Oz Mix)
14. Frazier Chorus - Nothing (Land Of Oz Mix)
15. The Strings Of Love - Nothing Has Been Proved (Land Of Oz Mix)
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Doubled hooded solidarity
I don't always wear a hoodie, but when I do, I wear a double hooded, Gator hoodie because my neighborhood watch captain is a Seminole, and I really like to freak him out. Stay crazy, my friends...
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