December 2009
10 posts
The spaces of New Babylon were intended to be spaces of disorientation and of reorientation, from rational, functionalist society to one that is liberated and self-inventing. It was meant to replace capitalist exploitation of human labor and emotion with anarchist celebration of them. Its architecture was to provide a complex armature on which could be woven endlessly new, unpredictably...
“Wherever and whatever I read, I have to have a pencil, not a pen—preferably a...”
– Charles Simic. NYRB blog
“The design process begins with a graphical description of a proposed device or...”
– “An outline of the requirements for a computer-aided design program,” Steven Coons, MIT. From the 1963 Proceedings of the Spring Joint Computer Conference. (via girlwonder)
“That which is improbable is that which attracts us.”