“Precisely when the symbolic exchange has become practically impossible, the critical looks attend to the artistic as if from this ritual could come out the key to escape from this glaciation” “We have to learn to think space. The space of the...
“Is the new metropolitan condition to continue to reproduce the values of consumption as the sole pragmatic purpose of social intermingling and the visual order of the simulacrum as the model of its special formalization?”
“What is close to us provokes vertigo because the explanations offered do not explain it. How often do we meet today – on trains, in parking lots, in queues in shopping malls – with a similar gaze, with a gaze that refuses to focus on what is...
“…in effect we are before a stroller of the capital, before someone who, although he does not live there but in its most peaceful periphery, needs to look almost daily at its streets and squares, to submerge himself in its crowds a little like Eduard Munch...
It matters little not to know how to find one’s way in the city,” says Walter Benjamin, “but getting lost in it, like getting lost in the forest, requires an apprenticeship. The complex analysis of the dynamic components of the city carried out by...
