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Excess, globalisation and emotional (dis)orders

“Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes”, Confucious “Six times more wealth has been created since World War II than in all of previous recorded history”, Hiromo Hosoya and Mark Schaefer, Bran Zobe, in Project on the City 2, p. 156, (Taschen) We are living in an age of emotional (dis) orders. We are living in an age of excesses, an often deadly imbalance in the psychological landscape of global, contemporary human society. The process of Globalisation, that is not new, Read more […]

Landscapes of History: Navigating Landscapes inside Personal(s) Memory (ies) and / in History (ies)

Landscapes of History Navigating Landscapes inside Personal(s) Memory (ies) and/in History (ies) :: Notes on Maria Lusitano’s artistic work “All great fiction films drift toward documentaries, as all great documentaries drift toward fiction.” Jean Luc Godard “The biotope of humankind is a complex affair, since it cannot be described solely in terms of living space: we live very much within time and, beyond the real present, we live collective stories, which have their roots in the past. Read more […]

terra incognita

this terra incognita that has disappeared from maps ; a paradise with invisible words a broken greek sculpture lost under the sea, near an unknown island, a most powerful wind speaking … hoping that the gods forgive me what I am doing (even i don’t know what i am doing) ; trying to measure of what is measurable, and asking myself how i can make measurable what is not so , in this will to go further the limits, the highway that leads to the unknown … i subject everything Read more […]

Sort Things Out (Synthesis and (Re)Search, Quotes, Passions)

“I did not die, and yet I lost life’s breath,” Dante Alighieri “He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.” Albert Einstein “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” Albert Einstein “Always do what you are afraid to do.” Ralph Waldo Emerson “For poems are not, as people think, simply emotions (one has emotions early enough)—they are experiences.” Rainer Read more […]

words to its limits

i have pushed words in this text to its furthest limits * baby machine merge document * there is no longer fascination for this technology made of words * the problem now is how can we control the public space in this text layout * how can we control the coordinates of the words * what is the space of a word in this text * what is the aesthetics of a text program * what is the aesthetics of a word in a text program * probably low or high technology makes the same effort in this paper * and in a time Read more […]

lexikón – body fast forward

cine-mato-graphic-ally we crumble, involucreless, and transformed into spectres for thousands of years we stay searching the hologram’s shadow of the non controllable mental activity which shows itself, while we are awake or while we are sleeping and no one can tell you that you are alive, since you cannot even see your face without the help of a mirror – you disappear while someone falls from a sky scraper, smashed into the incontrollable logic of gravity . the truth is that there Read more […]