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@nickkahler / nickkahler.tumblr.com

chronicling an eclectic labyrinth of architectural contemplation based in new york city
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In the remote and bunkered spaces of the post–Cold War landscape, a new brand of stealth architecture is mushrooming. So anonymous are these buildings, so ubiquitous and generic their urban or suburban presence, they are rendered invisible—undiscoverable except by a handful of hardcore infrastructure enthusiasts and researchers of the urban esoteric, impenetrable by all but a few highly skilled hackers. Still, these built architectures remain more manifest than their vital, digital shadow.

Stephen Graham, “Stealth Architectures and the Geographies of Backup” in Geographies of Information, 2016

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There is the house whose people sit in darkness; dust is their food and clay their meat. They are clothed like birds with wings for covering, they see no light, they sit in darkness. I entered the house of dust and I saw the kings of the earth, their crowns put away forever; rulers and princes, all those who wore kingly crowns and ruled the world in the days of old.

Enkidu in N.K. Sandars vs. Anonymous Akkadians, The Epic of Gilgamesh, c. 2500 / 2100 BCE

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I was born of the mountain, he reared me, and Enlil made me keeper of this forest. Let me go free, Gilgamesh, and I will be your servant, you shall be my lord; all the trees of the forest that I tended on the mountain shall be yours. I will cut them down and build you a palace.

Humbaba in N.K. Sandars vs. Anonymous Akkadians, The Epic of Gilgamesh, c. 2500 / 2100 BCE

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Etymologies of the Month (January 2013)

January saw an Archeological Study of the Past

  1. Mischief (n): c.1300, "evil condition, misfortune, need, want," from Old French meschief "misfortune, harm, trouble; annoyance, vexation,"  verbal noun from meschever "come or bring to grief, be unfortunate" (opposite of achieve), from mes- "badly" (mis- + chever "happen, come to a head," from Latin caput "head" (see capitulum); Meaning "harm or evil considered as the work of some agent or due to some cause" is from late 15c.; Sense of "playful malice" first recorded 1784.
  2. Glyph (n): 1727, "ornamental groove in architecture," from Greek glyphe "a carving," from glyphein "to hollow out, cut out with a knife, engrave, carve," from PIE root *gleubh- "to cut, slice" (cf. Latin glubere "to peel, shell, strip," Old English cleofan "to cleave"); Meaning "sculpted mark or symbol" (as in hieroglyph) is from 1825.
  3. Astrolabe (n): mid-14c., from Old French astrelabe, from Medieval Latin astrolabium, from Greek astrolabos (organon) "star taking (instrument)," from astron "star" (see astro-) + lambanien "to take" (see analemma).
  4. Anonymous (adj): c.1600, from Late Latin anonymus, from Greek anonymos "without a name," from an- "without" (see an-) + onyma, Æolic dialectal form of onoma "name" (see name)
  5. Ancient (n): mid-14c., auncyen, from Old French ancien "old, long-standing, ancient," from Vulgar Latin *anteanus, literally "from before," adjectivization of Latin ante "before, in front of, against" (from PIE *anti "against," locative singular of *ant- "front, forehead;" see ante).
  6. Detritus (n): 1795, "process of erosion," from Latin detritus "a wearing away," from detri-, stem of detere "wear away" (see detriment); Geological sense of "matter produced by erosion" is 1802, probably from French detritus.
  7. Cadre (n): 1830, from French cadre, literally "a frame of a picture" (16c.), so, "a detachment forming the skeleton of a regiment" (1851), from Italian quadro, from Latin quadrum "a square" (see quadrille).
  8. Domestic (adj): early 15c., from Middle French domestique (14c.) and directly from Latin domesticus "belonging to the household," from domus "house," from PIE *domo-/*domu- "house, household" (cf. Sanskrit damah "house;" Avestan demana- "house;" Greek domos "house," despotes "master, lord;" Latin dominus "master of a household;" Old Church Slavonic domu, Russian dom "house;" Lithuanian dimstis "enclosed court, property;" Old English timber "building, structure"), from *dem-/*dom- "build."
  9. Agriculture (n): mid-15c., from Late Latin agricultura "cultivation of the land," compound of agri cultura "cultivation of land," from agri, genitive of ager "a field" (see acre) + cultura "cultivation" (see culture: mid-15c., "the tilling of land," from Middle French culture and directly from Latin cultura "a cultivating, agriculture," figuratively "care, culture, an honoring," from pp. stem of colere "tend, guard, cultivate, till" (see cult)).
  10. Environment (v): late 14c. (implied in environing), "to surround," from Old French environer "to surround, enclose, encircle," from environ "round about," from en- "in" (see en-) + viron "circle, circuit," from virer "to turn" (see veer).

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Anonymous / Robert C. Christian, Georgia Guidestones, Elbert County, GA, 1979-80 (via wired)

"The strangest monument in America looms over a barren knoll in northeastern Georgia. Five massive slabs of polished granite rise out of the earth in a star pattern. The rocks are each 16 feet tall, with four of them weighing more than 20 tons apiece. Together they support a 25,000-pound capstone. Approaching the edifice, it's hard not to think immediately of England's Stonehenge or possibly the ominous monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey. Built in 1980, these pale gray rocks are quietly awaiting the end of the world as we know it. Called the Georgia Guidestones, the monument is a mystery—nobody knows exactly who commissioned it or why. The only clues to its origin are on a nearby plaque on the ground—which gives the dimensions and explains a series of intricate notches and holes that correspond to the movements of the sun and stars—and the "guides" themselves, directives carved into the rocks. These instructions appear in eight languages ranging from English to Swahili and reflect a peculiar New Age ideology. Some are vaguely eugenic (guide reproduction wisely—improving fitness and diversity); others prescribe standard-issue hippie mysticism (prize truth—beauty—love—seeking harmony with the infinite)."

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