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[dis]content .15
Re: Do we live in some virtual Zoos ?
2003 04.16 11:18
Museums have over time become my favorite type of building, specifically as architecture as delivery of content, even the 'secret' content. Thanks for sharing your research!
The Philadelphia Zoological Gardens are the first such place in the USA. I last visited there (more because of its architecture) October 2001. Many animals, especially birds, were not on display because of the West Nile Virus threat. The movie 12 Monkeys was filmed in Philadelphia.
I also appreciate your thoughts on the metabolic. My dictionary defines catabolism as destructive metabolism and anabolism as constructive metabolism. Don't forget though the energy that metabolism engenders via its destructive /constructive duality. Oddly, what seems to keep this life system in 'balance' is that catabolism is not in fact completely destructive, but also harbors tiny traces of creativity.
I personally wonder if it wasn't the fleeing powers-that-were from Iraq that looted the museums there, specifically when the power was mysteriously shut off.
It really is amazing that something that remains basically the same all the time (i.e., the design/plan of the human body) nonetheless manifests so many, many differences. I sort of stopped looking at humanity as an animal, and (since 1981) starting looking at humanity (specifically the male/female human body) also as architecture as the delivery of content.
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