2881. Commentary on Modern Architecture The violence/cruelty of having to obliterate, to level down, what is in place, so as to then build something new, or something in-tune with the natural landscape. To build one must begin with the destructive act of preparing the time/space to accommodate the imagined structure. On a intellectual level its is called negativity, or pessimism and is usually accompanied with accusations of bitterness and of being unable to adapt. Just as idiocy assumes that ignorance is courage, and thickness is boldness, so too does it misconstrue distaste for inadequacy. Humans intervention is always disruptive, as are all organic interventions. With man this interventions rises to the level where it affects the environment, on a temporal/spatial level, to degree greater, or more profound than any other organic intervention can match. The intervention itself begins to affect the organism intervening to a greater degree than what was intervened upon...which is the designation of what is artificial. With man this intervention is temporally/spatially deeper, broader...and it would take his absence, or the absence of his continuous intervention (maintaining what he has built), to return what was intervened upon to its natural connection to the continuum. The measure of manmade artificiality can be construed by the amount of time required for the construct to be reduced to its previous state, without human maintenance - which makes this so-called built-in obsolescence of Modern products much more than merely a marketing scheme. There are two ways to intervene...one involves taking what is already available to build in harmony with the landscape, the environment, remaining in-tune with it, as much as possible, or as much as the material permits. The other reduces the material to its lowest useful denominator, it obliterates it to a pulp (cement), so as to then recombine it, in the form of paste, using chemicals, as a binding mechanism, to build what contradicts the landscape, and/or that challenges it on a scale where it is out of harmony with it. This second method is what creates the possibility for a simulation, or of an artificial reality; a cocooned, man-made environment, with climate control and structures reflecting human noetic geometry, detached from the phenomenon, the real, the natural (past). Let me proceed to obliterate what has been already built, in the hope that something new, and more in harmony with nature will be built in its place: What would a dullard produce, other than another dullard? What could a whore give birth to other than another potential whore? What would a coward and imbecile replicate other than his own cowardice and stupidity? What could the degenerate, sheltered from natural selection, by altering the evaluation standards, hope to produce but other degenerates? As long as the intervening will persist in maintaining these structures of human artificiality these types will continue to be born and to propagate. Without it things return to their earlier state...beginning with a massive naturally selection genetic extermination. The moment this human intervention subsides, as in Dystopic scenarios depicting cities after the absence of man over a period of years, nature takes over, returning things back to the processes intervened upon. The pulverizing and chemical alteration of natural material/energies, is the characteristic of modernity and modern architecture. The rock is reduced to its smallest level, its lowest denominator, to then bind it into artificial forms. Sand is heated to create glass, to the same effect. The outcome is an artificial element combined to construct artificial landscapes, urban deserts, or cement and glass, shaped in ways to facilitate Modern lifestyles, which are interventions upon circadian rhythms and natural cycles of day/night and of seasonal continuity. Within these artificial environments artificial creatures roam, slowly adapting to this new condition.
Posted on: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 05:51:15 +0000
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