re.search.notes - reading

after_geoengineering

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-02-22T22:21:18+00:00

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architectural_reflections

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-04-03T20:26:32+00:00

Architecture is the organization of such experiences into spatial 'figures' which match the operational and ritual patterns of a building, so that we may say that the architectural order of a building will lie in the vital proportioning and sequential relationship of such figures. The 'figures' can be understood in terms of degrees of enclosure from agoraphobia to claustrophobia and I present a number of instances from my own work as illustration. There is the totally enclosed room; the room wit…

architecture_action_plan

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-04-03T17:35:38+00:00

Even if the absolute were found it would not be enough. The distinction between architecture and the shelter lies in the formers infinite ability to interpret basic needs in some special way which accentuates them or conditions them so they take on a greater relevance. At best architecture gives experience a further dimension.

being_material

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-04-03T19:28:24+00:00

'...how material dynamics limit, expand, transform, and/or vivify biological, social, and political lives.' '...how processes that may seem immaterial in character function within, and even rearrange, the material conditions of production, distribution, communication, and circulation.'

dreams_before_the_start_of_time

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T14:24:26+00:00

That's how I like to act in my own family, as a type of father who makes time for his children, who listens, and offers advice but only when it's asked for. A father should show reticence because his advice could be entirely wrong. Because your children aren't you are they? - page 141

housing_for_the_millions

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-03-26T23:22:37+00:00

'Door and window should be neither uninterrupted transitions nor abrupt separations. They should not be neutral zones in which inside gradually becomes outside and vice versa, but articulated places that belong both inside and out-places that lend significance to that which is on both sides, places where the presence of both sides is accepted simultaneously.'

if_then

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-03-13T16:17:26+00:00

'Lewes was fortunate because, while the value of the labour of it's citizens approaches zero, the data that can be harvested from you and used to refine the Process has a reasonably high value.' - page 69 'To call what happened next a collapse or a Seizure was to speak from an anthropic perspective. From the point of view of the financial instruments themselves, the system was thriving.' - page 78

island_of_dr_moreau

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:51:50+00:00

I have withdrawn myself from the confusion of cities and multitudes, and spend my days surrounded by wise books, bright windows in this life of ours lit by the shining souls of men. I see few strangers, and have but a small household. My days I devote to reading and to experiments in chemistry, and I spend many of the clear nights in the study of astronomy.

the_end_of_everything

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T13:40:46+00:00

towards_a_philosophy_of_photography

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T14:23:48+00:00

Texts do not signify the world; they signify the images they tear up. Hence, to decode texts means to discover the images signified by them. The intentions of texts is to explain images, while that of concepts is to make idea comprehensible. In this way texts are a metacode of images. - page 11