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From: Stephen Perrella <sp43@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Mon, 22 May 1995 22:33:32 -0400
Michael cited:
Mark Wigley makes a few intelligent and
perceptive remarks. For example:
"We are not suddenly brutal; we have not become brutal in the last five
minutes; we are a brutal society at every level. Television is just the
latest weapon, as is the seemingly innocent ranch house in which the
television sits. Architects have blood on their hands whether they like it
or not - blood that does not simply go away if you declare yourself a
pacifist; blood that cannot, as it were, be designed away by some
politically or ethically correct architecture."
spN: This is just an observation after hearing Mark's presentation at the
Architectural Leagues' "Architecture On Display" symposium this past
weekend: that many find his Heideggerian sensibilites (as he deploys them
in his analysis) as intelligent. I've known of Mark and his work since
'85 and have one of the few copies of his doctoral dissertation from the
Univ of New Zealand where he makes some brilliant links between
Heidegger-Derrida and architecture...basically that for philosophy to do
what it does it must use architectural metaphors, thus turning an old
relationship around. Anyway, I just want to say that beneath Mark's
Intellegent work is a thoroughly post-Heideggarian discourse. And I think
that is what is significant. That is the force of his work..