In a world of increasing dysfunctionality we are regularly confronted by those who use the pretext of championing a cause to intimidate and attack others. Theirs is an attempt to distract from actual justice and fairness through violent protest, demonstrations, riots, and nihilism. Continue reading The brutalist takeover: the war on learning
Francis Ford Coppola’s latest film explores time and art, the move from dystopia to possibly utopia, and has trenchant social commentary. It provides an honest sharp look at the decline of American society and many others. Continue reading Megalopolis: the art of controlling Time
Nietzsche: Beyond good and evil (a documentary) Continue reading Nietzsche: beyond good and evil
by Ross Wolfe & Sammy Medina Victor Hugo once proclaimed the death of architecture at the hands of the printing press. “Make no mistake about it,” he wrote in his Hunchback of Notre Dame. “Architecture is dead, dead beyond recall; killed by the printed book.”[1] In drawing this analogy, Hugo was trying to make a broader point about the transition from Catholicism to Protestantism in European history — traditions symbolized by the grandeur of the Gothic cathedral (“architecture”) and the vernacular of the delatinized Bible (“the printed book”), respectively. But Gutenberg’s invention carried a still-greater significance vis-à-vis architecture. It granted an almost … Continue reading Taking notes 23: Architecture: A social and political history since 1848
by P.J. Laska The first item of interest for any inquest concerning the status of postmodernism will surely be the fact of continuing post-mortem activity of the sort Dostoevsky described in his grotesque tale “Bobok :” “Prodolzhayetsya zhizn’ kak by po inertsii” [The (conscious) life of (the recently deceased) continues as if by inertia]—a phenomenon D. H. Lawrence commented on later in his Studies in Classic American Literature: “Post mortem effects. Ghosts. A certain ghoulish insistency.” A contemporary example of this phenomenon was voiced recently by Paul Krugman: “America’s political landscape is infested with many zombie ideas—beliefs about policy that … Continue reading Beyond the postmodern “moment”: Utopianism, aestheticism, and the avant-garde
Philosophers for Change 