Friday, December 10, 2010

aesthetic modernity: a spatially specific forgetfulness of being

human consciousness is simultaneously produced through the act of fabricating, sustaining, and inhabiting an environment.

the consequence of which alienates my consciousness.

nature made technical.

a temporary peculiarity of the essential human condition in false reconciliation,
in oscillation, between a struggle for personal development and a nostalgia for what is irretrievably lost.

the conditions of living, of being, arranged by socioeconomic processes.

underlying conflicts and discrepancies ignored.

"To be modern is to find ourselves in an environment that promises us adventure, power, joy, growth, transformation of ourselves and the world - and at the same time that threatens to destroy everything we have, everything we know, everything we are."

Marshall Berman, All That Is Solid Melts into Air.


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