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the landscape architecture journal
11 October 2011
10 October 2011
Slowness
Slowness:
There is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting.
Consider this utterly commonplace situation: a man is walking down the street. At a certain moment, he tries to recall something, but the recollection escapes him. Automatically he slows down. Meanwhile, a person who wants to forget a disagreeable incident he has just lived through starts unconsciously to speed up his pace, as if he were trying to distance himself from a thing still too close to him in time.
In existential mathematics, that experience takes the form of two basic equations: the degree of slowness is directly proportional to the intensity of memory; the degree of speed is directly proportional to the intensity of forgetting.
Milan Kundera, Slowness (via thought-emancipation)
There is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting.
Consider this utterly commonplace situation: a man is walking down the street. At a certain moment, he tries to recall something, but the recollection escapes him. Automatically he slows down. Meanwhile, a person who wants to forget a disagreeable incident he has just lived through starts unconsciously to speed up his pace, as if he were trying to distance himself from a thing still too close to him in time.
In existential mathematics, that experience takes the form of two basic equations: the degree of slowness is directly proportional to the intensity of memory; the degree of speed is directly proportional to the intensity of forgetting.
Milan Kundera, Slowness (via thought-emancipation)
06 October 2011
Future Systems
"It's not the technology, it's the system that I think is going to prove to be the most resistant. I think we are still trapped in this industrial framework of making money and constructing our environment that is going to be the real challenge. If we think that it has taken 20 years for the internet to kick in and for people to open their minds up and think we are a connected world now. I think it's going to take even longer before the bulk chemical companies, manufacturers and other industrialists are going to work with any new framework. They will probably have to be dragged kicking and screaming into it." Dr Rachel Armstrong on future urban living. See more here
http://www.guardian.co.uk/what-future-urban-living/using-technology-to-design-cities-urban-living
http://www.guardian.co.uk/what-future-urban-living/using-technology-to-design-cities-urban-living
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