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Re: Painting....officialy completed?
2004.11.24 08:40

Tafuri must here be taken to task because he comes extremely close to the truth about Piranesi and his large plan of the Campo Marzio, but he then falls fatally short of seeing the truth. Tafuri is absolutely wrong when he states, "Piranesi did not possess the means for translating the dynamic interrelationships of this contradiction into form." In truth, Piranesi worked very hard to "translate" the opposite yet necessarily linked notions of life and death (rational and irrational) within his great plan, and I have substantially documented Piranesi's (metabolic operations) in "Eros et Thanatos Ichnographiam Campi Martii". Stated briefly, Eros names the life instinct and Thanatos names the death instinct, and Piranesi carefully deliniates (between 1758-1762) both these "instincts" within the ancient city of Rome.

It is becoming more and more clear to me that any discussion of the rational and the irrational (in design and capitalism) tends to lead toward confusions unless they acceptingly incorporate the over riding creative-destructive nature of the metabolic (imagination).
excerpt Re: irrational architecture

Voodoo Valley separates Feltonville and Olney. More (Saturday night) shootings occur in Feltonville than in Olney.

Looks like "broken records personae" has run out of new material. Do they actually still sell Velveeta?

30 November 1994 suicide of Guy Debord (shot himself in the heart). Very Eros et Thanatos. Spectacular!

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