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Ichnographia Quondam, section 4.

when thought matters
2008.08.13 16:37

It was the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili and its profanation of love. "Religion of materiality" and capitalism as today's real religion.

The symbolic isn't dead, merely profaned. Just look at higher education as the symbolic profaned via its high price.

As to architecture profaned, I'm thinking of something along the lines of how html and the internet profaned publishing.

The assimilating imagination and the metabolic imagination are the more profane imaginations, whereas the osmotic imagination and the electro-magnetic imagination are the more sacred imaginations. They can all be utilized when it comes to design.

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