Cities (I) The official acropolis beggars the most colossal conceptions of modern barbarity. Impossible to express the dull light produced by the perpetually gray sky, the imperial glint of the barracklike buildings, the eternal snow on the ground. With a singular taste for enormity, they have reproduced all the classical marvels of architecture. I attend… Read More orientation is impossible
“Her eyes are so wide open that she seems to be devouring the future.”
In the movie District B13 (2004), set in future-present Paris 2010, marginalized young people no longer walk. Moving through a grey landscape comprised of the dream-turned-nightmare of urban modernism, they no longer accept pedestrian movement as the natural response of bodies to urban space. Instead they leap frog, bounce of walls, fly through windows. The… Read More not a walk in the park
In general, I try to distinguish between what one calls the future and “l’avenir.” The future is that which–tomorrow, later, next century–will be. There is a future which is predictable, programmed, scheduled, foreseeable. But there is a future, l’avenir (to come) which refers to someone who comes whose arrival is totally unexpected. For me that… Read More the city yet to come
