"Hopelessness is the darkness in your heart / The sound of one hand clapping / As it’s pulling you apart ..." --Annie Lennox (2003)
Regarding the ‘sign’ of Infinity Doubled, see Infinity Doubled (RTF) and Thought Itself (RTF) ...
A version of this essay, applied to the landscape-architectural work of Room 4.1.3 (Australia) will appear in late 2004 in Room 4.1.3: Innovations in Landscape Architecture (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004) ... / For details of this publication, cliquez ici ...
"To the questions, prejudices and hesitations about the discipline becoming a false science, a form of anthropology, a strict yet poor geology, a material economy, a flat ecology, a quick biology or a clumsy meteorology, the most richly machinic moments of these projects give evidence that that is only a conservative myth, and that the discipline is just growing, slowly, to catch up with other forms of knowledge, probably with the secret, ingenuous and harmless purpose of taking over." --Ciro Najle, "Weather Report", Parc Downsview Park (in Juncus, 2000)
Contemplating banality - "We want to reach the extreme, attain the paroxysm of exhibition, achieve total nudity, find absolute reality, consume live and raw violence (au direct et à l’écorché vif). We’ll never succeed. It’s impossible! The fortress of obscenity cannot be brought down. But, paradoxically, such a lost quest helps to resurrect the basic rule of the game: the rule of the sublime, the rule of secrecy, of seduction (always tracked down through the endless lifting of covers)." --Jean Baudrillard, Dust Breeding (CTHEORY, 10/08/01)
See also, Alexander Gross on Chomsky and the so-called problems with Universal Grammar.