"Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit"

Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)

Emotional Deficiency/The Body Political/Mobility as a Permanent Condition/Precarious Labour/Architecture as Condensed Politics/The Body as a Trespasser/The Unit as Subversion/The Intimate and the Urban

I have been in this blogspace for a while now, and my feeling is that I won't be here for long. But then again I have said That quite a few Times now, and nothing has changed. This Blog has grown in parallel to my stay in London since I moved here, and is by all means an extension to this new existence. It is also the only space//This Cloud//that has remained constant in This Stay. Paradoxically, as many might feel like, the Internet is the only Space where they have remained; where property, or solidity has remained constant or accessible. We shouldn't though, think that this is True. It is a delusion. This ephemeral permanence, is Also a Cloud of vapor surrounding us...

You might have to think a bit about This. Maybe you feel overwhelmed, and to be honest, that is the very point of the mechanisms that surround us. Whether you are interested in Saturation or not, you are in fact, Saturated. Desaturating is only a Privilege of the Economical Elite(?), which amongst Other factors, can afford to choose. Maybe your radius of action is constrained to your spaces of intimacy, and ultimately to the movements of your body, which if Tested, will find their own set of restrictions.

Contrary to the Body, there is, but there should be more, Architecture based discourse, on the consolidating and solidifying effects of Architecture on the establishing of relationships between the inhabiting bodies, their geographies, and their (social) interactions. Meaning, Architecture is the trunk bound to a Territory, which consciously or unconsciously radiates a set of values. Being exposed to this radiation transforms our bodies, those that with Time think of Background as Environment, and unnecessarily then as Nature. Any claim to Power is usually a claim to Nature, since it is easily justified. Our bodies are born, but unlike Nature, Architecture is Constructed. Meaning "chief"-"mason".

If a political geography is to be drawn by social consensus, we need to reconsider the social. A word that I find difficult to deal with. And that I need a better understanding Of. Because we are wary, we would like to know the nature of this consensus, and it is for sure, better to analyse. If politics lack a social base, then they are despotic, and most of the time they have the galvanizing effect of a Technocracy. Evolution without Philosophy. Welcome to the space of the Post-Critical. And that's because it is SO Démodé to go against. But if we'd like to stand, or to remain in Silence, Now is the time to make a Space of our own. It is by composites of Common Will that you might find the road to a hut. A hut of your own.

Finally I just want to say that as soon as you mention structure, you withdraw from emotion, an appeal to objectiveness. This I can't justify, but only assert that narrative spaces can only be constructed by setting fictions. Setting fictions about their constructing worlds requires propositions for a future, which are always problematic as soon as they become personal projections, rather than landscapes of the Multitude. For this reason I prefer to remain in this plain of Depth...Fading blue, green, and a Stroke of Orange where it meets the ground. Where dreams lift off to unpredictable heights. Wow, cheese.