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    Pier Vittorio dureli 4. Niiliam could be seem aa the esence ofthe history of Western thought from Greek philowphy onward. ln toe history ‘of che Wetera world, most great con- ict, dnvents, and diopures developed hi common frame, which arene ire time wat the advent of rmeaphpic he wel made of things Severino, Bence del Nihinme (Mile Adelphi, 982), 361-54. OF course there is tno simple way of applying this rico within rchivecrore and och are embedded ation” and “projec: ony in ina wibiistic ‘way, bu alo to be constructively and cerivially)shepieal of the currently sabes vahat-fte faith inthe Hea of change at phenomena likersted Fron any beng of hing ond evens. “This ea eth that im architecture and teres, ca be suesine only th the demiucgic iconegraphy of agra After Diagrams Nothing ever truly disappears. — Carl Andre Diagrams, as they have been conceived and used in architec- ture throughout the last century, have the power to simulta- neously construct, design, and expose an idea, while at the same time simplifying and idealizing facts and events of the world as simple signs. Diagrams are powerful devices but also problematic ones, in the sense that they are constantly updating the representation of a work beyond its effectual truth, and thus reducing it to an ever-changing image, The diagram, therefore, tends to become an accessible language that easily absorbs and consumes things and events, a con sumption of our experience of the world as it exists around us, Because of its evolutionary nature, to ignore or refuse the diagram puts one in an impossible position. It is not possible to totally refuse it, precisely because diagrams are inevitably also a form of language, but one has to be skeptical and aware of the way this language is constructed, because itis very similar to the rhetoric of language itself. Language is continually exposed to the risk of being the mere camouflage of reality, which means that we picture the world, as, Ludwig Wittgenstein said, solely in terms of our “language games.” But diagrams are not simple camouflages of reality: they appear today more as a form of value-free nihilism. Nihilism claims that things are nothing; itis the idea that an entity can be, at any moment, nothing. Therefore, nihilism is the deliberate consumption of che being of things and events." If diagrams — as the rhetoric of today seems to

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