well, have you?
i won’t show you though.
In an elective I took in 2018 I read “The Fried” by Agamben, about the relationship between friendship and philosophy. I pulled a very simple idea that has stuck with me since: addressing the thing (here friendship) with the thing itself (a friend) can cause the collapse of the thing. To take time drilling down into the nature of friendship, with a friend of yours, can reveal fundamental discrepancies in the surface-level mutual understanding that is necessary for casual intimacy. What if you both dig down to the bottom of the well, and discover that you were digging in different cities all along?
In the essay, Agamben posits that it was the friendship that got in the way of the discussion of friendship.
In the essay, Agamben posits that it was the friendship that got in the way of the discussion of friendship.
recently a friend sent me this meme, in relation to a mutual aquaintance of ours, who my friend felt was...unfounded in is confidence in the ability of architects to affect wider economic change.
I used to ask people, a few years ago, whether they thought it was better to remain inside a system and change it from within, or to stand on the outside and propose change from there. I asked this 90% because I was generally curious, and 10% because I was a bit of a dickhead.
I used to ask people, a few years ago, whether they thought it was better to remain inside a system and change it from within, or to stand on the outside and propose change from there. I asked this 90% because I was generally curious, and 10% because I was a bit of a dickhead.
With each of these ideas (the thing destroys the thing, we cannot affect things within the system, abandonment) I circled around an arresting pool of nagativity. Resilience, I think, belongs here too. An approach that encourages a “way forward” in the smallest possible increments without actually affecting the wider issue. We must simply weather the storm. It cannot be avoided.
In “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”, Le Guinn writes: “The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil is interesting. This is the treason of the artists: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredome of pain.”
In “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”, Le Guinn writes: “The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil is interesting. This is the treason of the artists: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredome of pain.”
these belong next to each other. Unless you’re on mobile, then they are one above the other, but only in the order I saved them in, there is no Intention here.
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*withDrawing Room, diller scofodio + renfro
AND
Prop, richard serra
*withDrawing Room, diller scofodio + renfroAND
Prop, richard serra
*Akira Unoi don’t not think these men might be in the previous sisdeways spaces? enabled by mechanism.
like this one, whose wheelchair platform could/has/might be repurposed for *drama*.
a Thought occurs:
ascneding up with the faces, what do they look like from below? *Maison Bordeaux, oma
these men might all be at the same party, but I think my pair are having a better time. They seem to be enjoying themselves. Much more grounded.
