File avant-garde/avant-garde.0411, message 9


Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 23:25:30 -0600
To: avant-garde-driftline.org-AT-lists.driftline.org
From: Bill Spornitz <spornitz-AT-mts.net>
Subject: Re: [a-g] Ivan Chtcheglov


Now, we have *Sun Temples* at every busstop, or - worse-> at every URL...

-b


>on 18/11/2004 11:19 AM, Steven Snell at 04048675-AT-brookes.ac.uk wrote:
>
>>  Is the Sun Temple invoking some sort of architectural determinism then? How
>>  does this notion rid the boredom from living within the city? Is the Temple
>>  a sanctuary, but only a sanctuary for those who believe in the unity of a
>>  particularly set social, political, and religious construction?
>
>A temple in the centre of a city was the expression of a common purpose in
>the city. Probably an expression of an order and hierarchy everyone was part
>of (which of course includes exclusions). Fixed points, ordered
>perspectives, etc. not an aimless moving perspective/parallax experience.
>
>How can you be bored when you are a cog in this kind of machine?
>
>
>
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