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Thoughts on...


...Grindr
              as a platform for a socially repressed sexuality

...Steel and concrete construction
                                                    as a fast-relatively cheap-mode of impersonal space production

...Holes
            as places for the unknown, where the mysterious resides. Spaces where the mind wonders full of fear, attempting to fill them with speculation or projected ideas yet to be realized. The void is always waiting to be filled, therefore void equals materiality in the human mind

...Societal structures
                                if the industry equals government, taxes equals masked public business funding. Tax collection is a way of enforcing economical growth by a few trough diplomatic channels

...Architecture
                       if architecture aims to go against capitalism, it cannot be built or assimilated by capitalism. It need to have strategies against appropriation or access by institutions, or agents that look for the implementation of their own agendas instead of empowering the development of individual agendas by creating undefined spaces

...Undefined spaces
                                those spaces that are empty of content. As a green field or a pond, these spaces don't have a prescribed meaning and allow for their occupation through free-will

...Performative Architecture
                                            if architecture is to be choreographed, it might go against the individuality of the users

...University
                    seem to be concerned with the production of students that can produce a consumable object or service. If our conception of the university is that of the place to think and deliberate, it cannot inject its agendas into their students. Learning cannot emulate modes of production, where evidence is collected, judged and marked. It cannot follow this system of labeling and superficial abuse.
Evidence works like medicine's attitude towards the body, it is perceived as an independent object where its workings and origins are dealt it its own terms, striping the object from its relationships and conditions

...Infrastructure
                        again the question of what for? or towards what? in not being asked enough. At universities the marking criteria deals with a body of work, its qualitative and quantitative characteristics. The questioning of the idea itself is absent. Infrastructure in the city works in a similar fashion. Its structure follows centers of power and displacement occurs due to a geographically specific located interest. It is aimed at the movement of productive bodies trough space, and it is not concerned with the qualitative aspects of its implementation. Devising walkways, places for leisure or knowledge is neglected and supplanted by places for consumption.
The commuter needs to ask herself/himself what is she/he moving towards, not physically but in terms of existential purpose.
Infrastructure has to be devised as an ingrained system within the city, not as an additional layer to the existing thoroughfares

...Art galleries that deal with painting
                                                           painting is a medium that has claimed many times that deals with the expression of things that cannot be expressed with words. Shouldn't the so common introductory description be challenged, as well as the title?
Why do we need such justifications? Why do we need to justify the work?

...Sanity
             to comply with established modes of behaviour. Altering these conforms insanity, and is not relevant tot he realms of society as long as is not going against the foundations of society

...The plinth
                   in its many forms. The Dr. Martens sole, Alsop architects Ontario college project... They all exude a new attitude towards our relationship with the ground and what is romantically considered nature and our environment. It acknowledges its separation insofar as it has failed to create a stable relationship and it considers the ground as dirty and inferior. This relationship is problematic because both entities are dependent and coexistent. If this relationship is to be reconsidered, man needs to fully understand and control its environment so its existence its not threatened.
If Stelarc wants to successfully give birth to a new type of body, this body need to be able to deal with the consequences, be them environmental, psychological or physical. If the idea of a infinite universe is romantic, wouldn't the discovery of its finitude ruin the tale? Should we stay on the ground? or should we follow our abstracted dreams whichever the cost? Should we pursue the desired regardless the fear or should we listen to our intuitions?

...Autonomy
                    as long as the body has holes and extensions, it is prone to interdependency. Claiming the autonomy or independency of the dependent body it a fallacy