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@nickkahler / nickkahler.tumblr.com

chronicling an eclectic labyrinth of architectural contemplation based in new york city
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If happening to companies can be happening to individual or group of individuals? ITS FREEDOM OF THE PRESS. Is being "free" if paying to remove pay-wall? Is being "free" from influence if performed for government goodwill or foreign policy? Is being "free" if performer is corporation with profit motive? What if market paying for misinformation, anti-"free"? What is being origins for free speech and free press? Is to being for spreading informations about TheThreats to ThePeoples liberty? How's that working out for ThePeoples? ThePeoples is feeling they knowing real vs fake threats? Is TheControllers needing censorship, attacking "frees" if TheControlled not trusting source or content? Self-Censorship? If great success for foreign powers "Russian Hackers vs American Election" then is great success for domestic powers "The Controllers vs The Controlled"?

The Shadow Brokers, “October Price Adjustment,” 2017

#the shadow brokers#quote#happening#company#individual#group#freedom of the press#bill of rights#constitution#united states#control#power#content#source#trust#liberty#information#real#fake#authentic#authenticity#censorship#censor#clean#wipe#secrecy#secret#origin#misinformation#attack
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We never took propaganda to consist only of its factual or post-factual components, but explicitly wanted to address texture, surface, cracks in the surface, and cinematic aura. We also felt that it would be too limiting to identify propaganda only by the intent of its individual ‘architects’. It would make sense to look at the infrastructure of propaganda, which has dramatically changed since the separate media regimes of print, radio, cinema, and television converged onto the internet and the world wide web. Should we consider the media landscape purely on terms of its output being fake or real? Far before the advent of ‘post-fact’ and ‘fake news’, major news outlets already published fictionalized or ‘augmented’ accounts. Or they endorsed wars, based on untrue or outright false information, giving them an aura of legitimacy. There is nothing new about that. News items, fake or real, can be seen as coordinates that people use for further (in)actions and (in)decisions.

Daniel Van der Velden and Vinca Kruk of Metahaven, “On Transparency and Propaganda,” 2017

#daniel van der velden#vinca kruk#metahaven#quote#propaganda#fact#post-fact#fake news#news#media#infrastructure#print#radio#cinema#television#internet#www#fake#real#fiction#augmentation#war#information#false#truth#epistemology#legitimacy#aura#coordinate#action
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The normal is often irrelevant. Almost everything in social life is produced by rare but consequential shocks and jumps; all the while almost everything studied about social life focuses on the 'normal,' particularly with 'bell curve' methods of inference that tell you close to nothing. Why? Because the bell curve ignores large deviations, cannot handle them, yet makes us confident that we have tamed uncertainty.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan, 2007

#nassim nicholas taleb#quote#normal#generic#irrelevant#society#rare#shock#jump#bell curve#everyday#method#average#interference#real#representation#deviation#tame#uncertainty#ambiguity#focus#complication#argument
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Atlanta was built as a railroad crossing, a transport link between port and mountain; it grew into a broad-minded center in a historically conservative milieu. If Atlanta is not known today as a crossroads, this exhibition endeavors to make it one—not as a filter through which to extract a contemporary “southern” identity, but as a place to mobilize a variety of experience, and ultimately to dismiss the real and imagined boundaries we impose upon our regional selves.

Daniel Fuller, Victoria Camblin, Aaron Levi Garvey, + Gia M. Hamilton, “On the Atlanta Art Biennial,” 2016

#atlanta#built#railroad#crossing#intersection#crossroads#transportation#link#port#mountain#center#conservative#history#time#exibition#contemporary#southern#identity#real#imaginary#fantasy#boundary#dismiss#self#impositition#filter#georgia#south
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When I assess a building, I focus on five areas, which are an adaptation and extension of the trio of criteria articulated by the Roman writer Vitruvius: “firmness, commodity and delight.” First, quality... . Second, utility... . Third, continuity... . Fourth, humanity... . Fifth, build a bridge between the public and the public realm.

Blair Kamin, “On Architecture,” 2015

#blair kamin#architecture#focus#vitruvius#quality#utility#continuity#humanity#bridge#public#realm#real#delight#firmness#strength#commodity#beauty#adaptation#criticism
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Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence. Some people think of reading only as a kind of escape: an escape from the “real” everyday world to an imaginary world, the world of books. Books are much more. They are a way of being fully human.

Susan Sontag, “Letter to Borges,” 1996

#susan sontag#quote#book#literature#sum#dream#memory#time#past#history#model#transcendence#people#escape#real#everyday#imaginary#world#human
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The twenty-first century is proud to be done with the ideal. And if there is one thing that you can say for Koons’s work it is that he deals in what is taken to be the real—even if the real is an act, a fake, a copy, an impersonation, what might be called the really unreally real. There is nothing on Planet Koons we haven’t seen before, admittedly generally in smaller, less costly, less shiny versions. His work is the apotheosis of Walmart.

Jed Perl, "The Cult of Jeff Koons," 2014

#jed perl#quote#jeff koons#art#twenty-first century#fake#copy#real#impersonation#planet#reality#apotheosis#walmart#nothing
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The traditional modern dialectic of ideal type and real context has been avoided, or rather replaced, by a more complex intercalation of intellectual narrative and material proposition. Here, the city, as existing, stands as the object and generator of so many possible futures, each calculated according to the nature of its opposition to those futures. The architectural project, while crystallizing one or more of these futures, is then presented to the city, so to speak, as a whole, not as a replacement or substitute, as in the utopian urbanism of modernism, but as a material to be submitted to the life and consuming power of the context.

Anthony Vidler, "Oneirism" from The Architectural Uncanny, 1992

#anthony vidler#oneirism#architecture#uncanny#design#dialectic#modernity#type#real#context#avoid#replace#intercalation#future#possible#crystal#modernism#utopianism#utopia#power#life#material#whole#project#generator#object
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First there are the utopias… They are sites that have a general relation of direct or inverted analogy with the real space of society.… There are also, probably in every culture, in every civilization, real places - places that do exist and that are formed in the very founding of society - which are something like counter-sites, a kind of effectively enacted utopia in which the real sites, all the other real sites that can be found within the culture, are simultaneously represented, contested, and inverted… I shall call them, by way of contrast to utopias, heterotopias. I believe that between utopias and these quite other sites, these heterotopias, there might be a sort of mixed, joint experience, which would be the mirror. The mirror is, after all, a utopia, since it is a placeless place. In the mirror, I see myself there where I am not, in an unreal, virtual space… such is the utopia of the mirror. But it is also a heterotopia in so far as the mirror does exist in reality, where it exerts a sort of counteraction on the position that I occupy. From the standpoint of the mirror I discover my absence from the place where I am since I see myself over there.

Michel Foucault, Of Other Spaces (Heterotopias), 1967 (via fourmonths)

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