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It rocked Eisenman on his chair...
"Generally, Bloomer's treatment of Piranesi's Campo Marzio follows that of Tafuri's, but she investigates some of Piranesi's other work with some originality. She is much better at finding symbolism/hidden meaning in Joyce, however, than she is in finding the same in Piranesi. For her, the (s)crypt(s) signifies a labyrinth (one she often seems lost in herself, even though it is a labyrinth of her own making!). For example, she sees the Campo Marzio plan as representing the labyrinth of the underworld, that place where the [Cartesian] grid/cage of rationality does not apply. Her [s]cryptic efforts to get into this underworld are especially worth reading because it is a thorough aggregate of good research mixed (unfortunately?) with Tafurian and Derridian agendas (--see her treatment of the Campo Marzio's Occulus Tarentum Dis et Perserfoni). Inadvertently, however, by going "underneath" the large plan, she puts all her effort into seeking something that is not there. Essentially, she avoids the real plan itself."
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