Complex Hub No. 1
'To live' means to proceed towards death. On the way, one came across things that blocked one's path. These things called 'problems' had therefore to be removed. 'To live' then meant: to resolve problems in order to be able to die. And one resolved problems either by transforming intractable things into manageable ones - this was called 'production' - or by overcoming them - this was called 'progress.' Until eventually, one came up against problems that could not be transformed or overcome. These were called 'last things', and one died of them.
Vilém Flusser - 'The Non-Object', The Shape of Things: A Philosophy of Design
Future is not a natural state of the mind, it is rather a modality of perception and imagination, a feature of expectation and attention, and this modalities and features change with the changing of cultures. Futurism is the artistic movement that embodies and asserts the accomplished modernity of the future. The movement called futurism announces what is most essential in the 20th Century because that century was pervaded by a religious belief in the future. We do not believe in the future in the same way. Of course we know that a time after the present is going to come, but we don't expect that this time will fulfill the promises of the present.
Franco Berardi - Futurism and the Reversal of the Future, http://www.generation-online.org/p/fp_bifo8.htm
The production of locality is a reminder that even the most apparently mechanical forms of social order that seem to function without design, contingency, or intentionality but simply by the force of routine - what we used to call habit - involve large amounts of deliberate attention, effort and labor. Part of that attention, effort, and labor is involved in collective ideas of what is possible .
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Physical spaces are part of the material that that individuals works from, draw on, to some extent take for granted, and in other instances highlight, sharpen, consciously use. On the other hand, physical spaces are also objects of the interests of lots of social actors. A lot of work is directed to the production, maintenance, reproduction, distribution, or enjoyment of physical places. Physical places in this broad sense - area, spaces, roads, streets, locations - have a dual relationship with the production of locality. They form part of the condition of its production, and they also form an important part of the object of that production.
Arjun Appadurai, Illusions of Permanence (Interview), Perspecta 34: Temporary Architecture
Vilém Flusser - 'The Non-Object', The Shape of Things: A Philosophy of Design
Future is not a natural state of the mind, it is rather a modality of perception and imagination, a feature of expectation and attention, and this modalities and features change with the changing of cultures. Futurism is the artistic movement that embodies and asserts the accomplished modernity of the future. The movement called futurism announces what is most essential in the 20th Century because that century was pervaded by a religious belief in the future. We do not believe in the future in the same way. Of course we know that a time after the present is going to come, but we don't expect that this time will fulfill the promises of the present.
Franco Berardi - Futurism and the Reversal of the Future, http://www.generation-online.org/p/fp_bifo8.htm
The production of locality is a reminder that even the most apparently mechanical forms of social order that seem to function without design, contingency, or intentionality but simply by the force of routine - what we used to call habit - involve large amounts of deliberate attention, effort and labor. Part of that attention, effort, and labor is involved in collective ideas of what is possible .
...
Physical spaces are part of the material that that individuals works from, draw on, to some extent take for granted, and in other instances highlight, sharpen, consciously use. On the other hand, physical spaces are also objects of the interests of lots of social actors. A lot of work is directed to the production, maintenance, reproduction, distribution, or enjoyment of physical places. Physical places in this broad sense - area, spaces, roads, streets, locations - have a dual relationship with the production of locality. They form part of the condition of its production, and they also form an important part of the object of that production.
Arjun Appadurai, Illusions of Permanence (Interview), Perspecta 34: Temporary Architecture
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