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I hope you understand that Quondam (and myself) are presently very much in transition, so I myself am struggling with how to 'categorize' Quondam. As I've already mentioned to you, Quondam is no longer operating as a virtual museum of architecture and is now investigating what it means to be a virtual place in architectural history, and thus is now operating on a much more 'theoretical' level than before. As to Quondam/pieces, there too I see a more theoretical operation than a commercial operation because what I'm really doing is just the beginning of an experiment/testing of a new paradigm for how architecture (and art) itself may be 'consumed' by the average man sometime in the future. True, at this point I am not publicizing my objectives, but I believe you at least know me well enough to recognize that whatever I do at Quondam, I'm doing with 'theoretical' reasons.
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I very happy that we now seem to be nicely understanding our individual modus operandi. Your MO vis-à-vis (the placement of quondam and) the workings of directories/search engines sounds excellent. Keep me posted of any interesting developments. From my perspective, visits to quondam come from individual searches as much as from directories. Google and inktome are always running through quondam, and thus many of quondam's pages are registered, that's why most of the urls of the 'old' quondam still exist online at quondam--these pages do not contain the old content, but rather a brief message saying that the content being looked for no longer exist online, plus they provide a hyperlink to www.quondam.com. I did this so that no "ERROR, link not found" pages are encountered at quondam, although I did not do the substitution for the 2000 schizophrenia + architectures pages that were deleted.
Re: Derrida Dies
"The structures of McKim, Mead, and White, for conspicuous example, gave America, above all gave New York City, the metaphor it needed to define its own ideal history and its imagined place in the future it hoped to shape. Their buildings distill America's vision of itself at a particularly optimistic moment, and to the degree that they succeeded in making this vision palpable, these master builders of the consciousness of their age helped to transform the lives of those who used their metaphoric shapes. Consider the campus of Columbia University. It is not, by metaphoric implication, a cloister; so its users are not, by metaphoric implication, monks and clerics, preserving the relics of learning against the surrounding darkness. It is rather an architectural reenactment of a Renaissance reenactment of a dreamt classical city believed to be real, and because it is a city in connotation it can and does emblemize the city it is part of. Its users are open to economic, political, and artistic currents of the wider world. Life at Columbia is altogether different than life at "cloister" universities, and its architecture is a paradigm of success in this symbolic transformation of its users, for use confirms the metaphor of a building as reading completes writing."
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