Exploring new heights (depths) of self referentiality. This road goes nowhere (or just goes round). Unstable city as mark, cipher (a sort of poetics).
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Bureau for Unstable Urbanism is proposed as a trans-national network of individuals and groups involved in a variety of practices that engage in different ways with contemporary urban space, actually or conceptually. The project was initiated in Bergen (Norway) but is not specific to any country or city. The notion of “unstable urbanism” is an undefined yet resonant term to describe ways of thinking about or acting upon changing urban phenomena.
and Robert Walser wrote almost a hundred years ago: 'We don't need to see anything out of the ordinary. We already see so much.”
ReplyDeleteSome years later, Don DeLillo said "All the amazement that's left in the world is microscopic" and Andy Warhol said " the more you look at the exact same thing, the more the meaning goes away and the better and emptier you feel".
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