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1 February 2000
2005.02.01 10:14
coming apart at the seamless
This first hybrid [architectures] conference of the 21st century took place within two cyberspace venues,
the UK based architecthetics discussion list (whose name itself is a hybrid)
and
the US based design-l discussion list,
beginning 30 December 1999 and ending, for reasons of practical closure only, 31 January 2000.
The discussion activity at both lists throughout the month of January 2000 was well above average, yet only a few individuals, being members of both lists, are aware of the concurrent discussions. It is thus for the purpose of broader awareness throughout the global architectural community that Quondam hosts coming apart at the seamless, thereby presenting the combined daily posts of both lists. In paradoxically "pure" hybrid fashion, moreover, the active members of architecthetics and design-l had no idea that their "literal" participation would ultimately manifest the first hybrid [architectures] conference of the 21st century.
coming apart at the seamless starts with Marcus Ormerod (UK) asking, "Should this be called a sculpture? If so, what criteria are we using? If all the terminology being applied to it is architectural, such as walls, doors, roof, etc. does this push it into architecture? Should we be redefining all those buildings which we can no longer access as sculpture?" and ends with Mary Alice Miller (Brazil) stating, "Interesting what you've said about requiring "everyone in South Florida speak English only," but "not going to promise them access to the reference tools that describe the delimits of that requirement", Nicholas. But I want just to remember that, nowadays, every single person who wants to get in touch with the world, NEEDS to know english. Here we have a single example: I've studied english for some years and now I can access Design-L list; It's different from at about 135 million people, just in Brazil, that cannot do this. Imagine in world... So, the language IS, in fact "a tool of repression", of power, of capability. And in our days - not only in Roman times! - English is this language."
Now, coming apart at the seamless poses the question: Are the above citations then the two extremes? or, through hybridization, do they come to mean the same thing?
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