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Follies as ruins, or as imitations of ruins, became the vehicles for such instant nostalgia encouraged by historicist regrets and supported by consumerist atavism. Here the Baroque cult of ruins was transformed from a simply relished fragmentation, a sense of the transience of history and the mortality of man into a ‘history lesson.’

Anthony Vidler, Follies: Architecture for the Late-Twentieth-Century Landscape, 1983

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The plateauing and decline in U.S. vehicle miles traveled per capita that occurred between [2005-2014] was described by some hopeful commentators as a dramatic shift that was indicative of the preferences of a new workforce...Marginal changes in the way a new generation behaves...cannot overcome the realities of a country where more than three-fourths of jobs are located more than three miles from downtowns and where only one-fourth of homes are in places that their residents refer to as urban.

Yonah Freemark, “America’s Car Obsession Will Not Be Diminished by Millennials Alone,” 2015

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There are countless forms of narrative in the world. Among the vehicles of narrative are articulated language, … pictures, still or moving, gestures, and an ordered mixture of all those substances; narrative is present in myth, legend, fables, tales, short stories, epics, history, tragedy, … comedy, pantomime, paintings, … stained-glass windows, movies, local news, conversation. Moreover, in this infinite variety of forms, it is present at all times, in all places, in all societies; indeed narrative starts with the very history of mankind; there is not, there has never been anywhere, any people without narrative.

Roland Barthes, An Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narrative, 1975 (via lucas)

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Given the necessities of military intelligence, men have made themselves the servants of energy, that is to say, of violence. … The various energy particles, which are at once vehicles and projectiles, thus accomplish a global disintegration, that is to say, ecological and social.

Paul Virilio, “Military Space” in Bunker Archeology, 1997

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This passage from an era in which the construction of infrastructures was paramount to our era—in which emphasis is given solely to developing the performances of vehicles and projectiles—is far from being overestimated … As can be seen, military space is undergoing a radical transformation. The ‘conquest of space’ by military and scientific personnel is no longer, as it once was, the conquest of the human habitat but the discovery of an original continuum that has only a distant link to geographical reality.

Paul Virilio, “Military Space” in Bunker Archeology, 1997

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Robert Adam, Design of a Sedan Chair for Queen Charlotte, 1775

"The litter is a class of wheelless vehicles, a type of human-powered transport, for the transport of persons. Examples of litter vehicles include lectica (ancient Rome), jiao [轿] (China), kiệu (Vietnam), sedan chair (England), litera (Spain), palanquin (France and India), liteira (Portugal), woh (Thailand), gama (Korea), kago and norimono (Japan) and tahtırevan (Turkey). Smaller litters may take the form of open chairs or beds carried by two or more men, some being enclosed for protection from the elements. Larger litters, for example those of the Chinese emperors, may resemble small rooms upon a platform borne upon the shoulders of a dozen or more men. To most efficiently carry a litter, porters will attempt to transfer the load to their shoulders, either by placing the carrying poles upon their shoulders, or the use of a yoke to transfer the load from the carrying poles to the shoulder."

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Etymologies of the Month (October 2012)

October saw Preparing an Essay on Urban Movement

  1. Purpose (n): late 13c., from O.Fr. porpos "aim, intention" (12c.), from porposer "to put forth," from por- "forth" (from L. pro- "forth") + O.Fr. poser "to put, place" (see pose).
  2. Vehicle (n): 1610s, "a medium through which a drug or medicine is administered," also "any means of conveying or transmitting," from Fr. véhicule, from L. vehiculum "means of transport, a vehicle," from vehere "to carry," from PIE *wegh- "to go, transport in a vehicle" (cf. O.E. wegan "to carry;" M.Du. wagen "wagon;" see wagon).
  3. Dance (n): c.1300, from O.Fr. dancier, perhaps from Low Frankish *dintjan and akin to O.Fris. dintje "tremble, quiver;" Replaced O.E. sealtian, itself a borrowing from L. saltare "to dance," frequentative of salire "to leap" (see salient; "dance" words frequently are derived from words meaning "jump, leap").
  4. Movement (n): late 14c., from O.Fr. movement "movement, exercise; start, instigation", from L. movere (see move); In the musical sense of "major division of a piece" it is attested from 1776; in the political/social sense, from 1828.
  5. Event (n): 1570s, from M.Fr. event, from L. eventus "occurrence, accident, event, fortune, fate, lot, issue," from pp. stem of evenire "to come out, happen, result," from ex- "out" (see ex-) + venire "to come" (see venue).
  6. Day (n): O.E. dæg "day," also "lifetime," from P.Gmc. *dagaz, from PIE *dhegh-; Not considered to be related to L. dies (see diurnal), but rather to Skt. dah "to burn," Lith. dagas "hot season," O.Prus. dagis "summer;" Meaning originally, in English, "the daylight hours;" expanded to mean "the 24-hour period" in late Anglo-Saxon times.
  7. Companion (n): c.1300, from O.Fr. compagnon "fellow, mate, friend, partner" (12c.), from L.L. companionem, lit. "bread fellow, messmate," from L. com- "with" (see com-) + panis "bread" (see food).
  8. Manifesto (n): "public declaration," 1640s, from It. manifesto "public declaration explaining past actions and announcing the motive for forthcoming ones," originally "proof," from L. manifestus: "ship's cargo," 1706.
  9. Lose (v): O.E. losian "be lost, perish," from los "destruction, loss," from P.Gmc. *lausa- (cf. O.N. los "the breaking up of an army;" O.E. forleosan "to lose, destroy"), from PIE root *leu- "to loosen, divide, cut apart, untie, separate" (cf. Skt. lunati "cuts, cuts off," lavitram "sickle;" Gk. lyein "to loosen, untie, slacken," lysus "a loosening;" L. luere "to loose, release, atone for, expiate").
  10. Find (v): O.E. findan "come upon, meet with, discover; obtain by search or study" from P.Gmc. *finthanan, originally "to come upon," perhaps from PIE *pent- "to go, pass, path, bridge" (cf. O.H.G. fendeo "pedestrian," Skt. panthah "path, way," Avestan panta "way," Gk. pontos "open sea," L. pons "bridge," O.C.S. poti "path," peta "heel").

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