6 June

1813 death of Alexandre Théodore Brongniart
1875 birth of Thomas Mann

the more real Piranesi-effect
1999.06.07 23:49

Museumpeace
2000.06.09

Re: Sunday, two days ago
2002.06.06 12:19
Re: Notokia
2002.06.06 12:43

PMA
2003.06.06

going crackers 001
going crackers 002
going crackers 003
going crackers 004
going crackers 005
going crackers 006
going crackers 007
Even Staircase Decending Bachelors
The Bachelors Eighty Years After
Scrolling The Bell and the Glass

2003.06.06

homage to Matta-Clark's father and godfather
2003.06.06 13:45
Re: Weapons of Mass Tampons
2003.06.06 13:54

from mnemonics to Mnemosyne
2004.06.06 8:27
Re: making it in the art world in NYC
2004.06.06 11:29
Re: Memorial Life
2004.06.06 11:44
2004.06.06 11:53
Re: here, there, everywhere
2004.06.06 14:18

Genetic Engineering
2006.06.06 09:07
2006.06.06 09:15
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Unknowing
2006.06.06 09:56

Ottositions 2
Ottober 28
2006.06.06

Ottober 28
2006.06.06 12:33
Unknowing
2006.06.06 12:39
Ottositions 2
2006.06.06 20:00

city plan diagrams
2008.06.06 14:40
2008.06.06 16:41

Brongniart, Alexandre Théodore
architect: b. February 15, 1739; d. June 6, 1813.

Brongniart was a pupil of Jacques François Blondel. He was associated with Jacques Ange Gabriel, and succeeded him as architect of the École Militaire. Brongniart'e chief work is the Bourse (Exchange), in Paris, which he designed. The first stone was laid March 24, 1808. He completed only the basement.



Unknowing
2006.06.06 12:39

"We might begin this analysis by recalling some minimal requirements of the Enlightenment model. For his part, Forster grasps that the incapacity to tolerate the other (as others) that fuels Western subjectivity mandates, in a colonial context, an exclusionary dynamic: "We must exclude someone from our gathering, or we shall be left with nothing," the narrator muses. We know ourselves by what we exclude, and this "we" is plural, group-shaped; such is the enabling premise of ideology itself. If the other cannot be transformed into a version of the same, it must be cast out, as not-us. As Pierre Machenry writes, "Like a planet revolving round an absent sun, an ideology is made of what it does not mention." Made up of what it does not mention, ideology achieves group coherence by abjecting its other outside the group's constituent borders. If the act of excluding others is definitive, in both senses, of individual (but group-secured) identity, how could individuals pass beyond their (group's) borders and yet retain coherence?"
--Philip Wienstein, Unknowing: The Work of Modern Fiction (2005), pp. 218-19.



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