/lit/ - Literature

>>11527663
Instead of mourning the passing of 'local color' and 'authenticity', we should embrace the sheer artificiality of the city. read the situationist international's notoriously megalomaniac writings on urbanism or 60s multimedia artists on the transformative potential of built environments.


>We are bored in the city, there is no longer any Temple of the Sun. Between the legs of the women walking by, the dadaists imagined a monkey wrench and the surrealists a crystal cup. That’s lost. We know how to read every promise in faces — the latest stage of morphology. The poetry of the billboards lasted twenty years.

>And you, forgotten, your memories ravaged by all the consternations of two hemispheres, stranded in the Red Cellars of Pali-Kao, without music and without geography, no longer setting out for the hacienda where the roots think of the child and where the wine is finished off with fables from an old almanac. That’s all over. You’ll never see the hacienda. It doesn’t exist.

>The hacienda must be built.


http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/Chtcheglov.htm

>>11515884
>mass media advanced beyond the wildest dreams of the 60s, is being misused to perpetuate a culture of narcissism and total surveillance, when we could be using it to explore new levels of consciousness.

ESCAPE FROM FUN PALACE

>Initiated with Joan Littlewood, the theatre director and founder of the innovative Theatre Workshop in east London, the idea was to build a ‘laboratory of fun’ with facilities for dancing, music, drama and fireworks. Central to Price’s practice was the belief that through the correct use of new technology the public could have unprecedented control over their environment, resulting in a building which could be responsive to visitors’ needs and the many activities intended to take place there.