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ENTERIORS
ARTOFDWELLING
Desire constonily couples eonrinuous How* ond partial ab|eeb thai ore
c.-:-_-rre.::cnn-!ri.y oiid bag-era: Drs-s causes he currs-tto
flow, itself flows in turn, ond brnks the lows1.
multitude of ils aspects with the arm of collective memory that with its
Dee -gus = de-si'ng-inri:li'-.re,V- ••:--• s rompsriso" might seem
strange but if we regorddwel ling os a creation of a world, Ihe adventure
era cu-i.-uous-e-def niiion of one's own reality ID give it a
;pmu-e"e-sive-eoningcr in general a .•? I rg os a smile of human life
-re ':. rr--i:r''-ebeslui'ili-y irapecechd'-e-osweo'eallowed'o
for o peaceful being in the world ore live; then we might hear the re.-e-ence of the community1.
resounding ofwhotEteleuze and Guc.lic- -Lhe:r study on schzouh-e-
- r c-r cnp'lulisni rolled Ihe desi' -g-r-octiine. It is not so much the
mechanical image or technical appeoronee (hot this ideo of machine
refers to. but the incocporotion of the technical universe with in myth, like
• • • t .testing the natural world: ttfe do not proceed frame
arising, the way oil kinds of elements ore forced to be 0 machine by
but more to make ihem com municatetogdWr in order to show how man
unites with the machine or with other things to constitute a machine''.
Nan ::-ra--weca'i:iue- u.-.el "go: -.rer re;, a'cod.Chen m w- ch
iisn-c-ojc -s production are cane.-cu :-reeo-erapece una Ihe
zcre •• \re :.-,: ngllie riirci-e-.'u- -: z :re"r ciusedurucesr. .,-c"
would be in terms of const ilulingo desiring-machine?
Masi authors who were engaged in Ihe ideo of dwelling put forward thai
man Initially dwells in language, in which communolimoginoiion of the
mythical dwelling is turned to account as the insertion inlo cosmos.
1 .... ....,,. ... v ..| lt ,:. tv .. l)v j . , , . . . . . . . . :,!.emqled-cic-iiie s
e.ploded today, man in his wish to dwell o/oeson in producing
a-g. ages, worlds, -ylhsa-d ~oc- -tre :• .;•reand IV-niguedid nc!
succeea .-'heey-erm ncclicn D; rm.-r-cr-re-a-because "ylh is-he idea!
-ea-i-ar eve'y cuture to overcome c c c a c o c : n the imng nary. In
ihiswayweconalsoconside-ihoaec--: pod) H O D myth or legenti
of the mochiae mythology. Although myth.ndicaleslhe way ollhinking
of primitive societies it is an ordered, 0 jointed ond not a free unity of
legends. In primitive societies the naming of the mythical elements ond
o ; m. - (self, n our time on-he con" o-. - . " s nc longer interpreted
but tobe conslrucled. Every mylh is an assemblage of heterogeneous
.-::••••..•--, "ugnienlscl'esls.'oes and images, that mylh unites
according io a secondary rationalization. In rhe discourse it gives this
Innk -gvvilhilyresl:jlcosenessa-d -; •;. a- cau'seis neslioy.tn a:
trn are scattered in o way
:c=o- : : cc cc-lvc orliculn' o- cl-hc •-•-••• -s cccl ondfinalmr
c-. -creo.-une con an ya::c--c -:-:••••;"-:.: a .'a. mice circle-cos
Mythoso woy of thinking husi =::;--::--:-• c - nuudricl sccic->- rat
that in ihe mythicol form Ihe heterogeneous fragments of word and
:-|...-:li..lllii-iilli. c-. Ill :' ' • "ill-1 w.i ill mi-.." ••
rheDlher sidelhesearchfor knowledge itiformofane.aclly appointed diverse like Moral Duc-iamps' "he Bride Stripped Bareby Her
ccu-ce.-.Vhchmea-s ha-"y-.-jra-raa-euOHons-a-lly re-en -g boc-elu.s Even. 1-e eiect.:re--=chhein Fran; KcrFka'sSlratlioksnie,
Images with the area of discourse. It*. Oreo ofthe always actual in the Raymond Roussel's mock -'.-. - ; : = ut.eSurmale by Alfred Jarry,
Edgor Allan Fee's •-era nes . E.e =j'ure by Villiers del'Isle d'Adam,
-. loraclerislirsoflhe pre-senr refers loo poslpuloutofusebul em.' In the bachelor-machines we ion see that the two large areas of
symbolically always new beginning What defines this mythical farm is a myth are radically separated arid that each of these is splintered: the
lineorlime-spocewilh.lc--.....r, :•-:•• :e-ricks eve cisandsp -n r "-is area of the changes, here the orecof industrial society and production,
space-time orronge -if'si su •• f t - •-:• :c'-ce for every new symbolized by the image ofthe machine, used in cs rim liudc- ere
e-ie-g'ng phc-orncmon or merer "•: era- the nuugu-cr ng ab.- - " "agr-en-cr inon z 'u'lc-c: -.-:- o-c '!,. one the area oflhetei'. -he
genesis. The lEii in the bo. does nDl lake up Ihe image in its discourse
:
--.e romourel-is r-yth on- fc--- " -e oc -'ec •.jm.c;id-ra:; •• ••• ere e- me cc-vc", --e ••:•- : :--: eon -• -era image-a stirrer:
whor Dal Co wroleaboufrheiceac" :_•-:-j-inem:li'-mlmi.ri> . r „ c : dsccu-selha'al'hough ii revee sine motives of the design does not
the modern ond the arising ol discuss on ond study on the nature ot the integrate itos a symbolic image ofthe search. The bochelor-mocbines
port- n nAich dwtlRng l l PMraoDwelling culture means also the show in their own legends the impossibility to ii. myth in a closed test or
retrieval of sptKi and placet • » :••'••••mi.ourahr unrlmy-:u • 9 constructed o b | ^ or Imagi
ideo of ploce. Aplacelha-ia.es re srsotial, social, religious ons bac-elor-~ochines occurred .:•-•:. o- o:cwell.ngh nwra-e---
ft* modern form of dwehmrj, asft*,crjmilonwm the tag city'-, shine by she forces oJaiirotiionandr*puli.oii. that can invest itself
twosMthat mythical fora a mdeed mtompatible with the structure of somewhere and into somethmg. and to which every object con be a
race-co led indusi'alsoc el, be: r. o-dv erne islheorde-clcaciic: carrier of meaning.
-~ socc.m.loled and saved up- -tout beginning nor end. In the log c Orl.keDeleuzca-dC-ura- -re-.lule I: T-eques1 o-become: ..-o-
re cot:remere ooes no- ?.. cre:: ere • •- ••en :..-'• Till- eg ' or I- s ooe:-he:e bom etc:: i no- • : ..re-r p-ciuuced u-ra:-crere
dynamic is nol directed on ooes - - zreu'e-c- it wliic--hecom-iu-o Tneonswe-wcj d ;.tc- -a ::• • n • - ,n ttottiu - es The-- s c
energies ore fused. .• snu!ui-?z-eu c- me-re n-enanceafareolor schizophrenic e.perlence of intensive quantities in their pure stole, ton
imoginory communol treasure buion a lack. Hence 'in the modern the point thol is almost unbearable - a celibate misery and glory
meoning is constituted that the big c ry represenls the final form of eiperiencsd 10 the fullest, like o cry suspended between life and death,
.-.rare -g-o'makes eve .•.":•:• . era „c sssisle la-r rner t» nlenserecli-g ni--a •• lian .-ares u: eu'e. naked intensity stripped
rhe city accomplishes theatre liar if every ei s-ng ploce for a of all shape and farm. Theseore often described os hoi I urinations and
re-manic us slay, la-he a ge'rarare-- . -c;e modus o- li.-cc:-, eel • .m .'• Theb-ecclra .c :• --•: co nclive mythical discourse seems
-ea-oduced thol the dw - :
• -- . ]-'. "neblgci-.ccnti' lohuvtd sso'vedal sir j c . re: and 'a lead too kind of delirium, the
- : .:: .ec : c:l ..iicillc- .I'IC-arc .:•:.--•. :- :•!•.. •leer-a-'"e c-c :• -aoa, infatuation OS expressed in
•-.•-, ronception of taybawd rmtrndrtuin The tradition of Ihe the bachelor-machines. These bachelor-machines now might bereod
modem iworporoles acre ' : " . t i-nmlunry. II is a Ilsanollemplforwho1lwouldlke1ocallocoloniIotion|from,colele,-
cc-s'-.h-gpo" of lire iroclcf ..'.::. ::-a-•••vis I he usurer o- fo-anew cultivating, to dwell] of the delirium. In their reproducing chorocler they
dwelling culture. This tendency is the conclusive legocy the modern ore anotlempl'o dwell rsce'-ede num.-hisnewreoli'yof-ra-i.e-sal
dwelling becomes impossible! Owe ng Inl-e lag'cof ils "eon rg - new dwell-egcullu-e-ha-go-, c .:• well birth 1c IheMelropolis Delirious
factconnotbe impossible because a •:'• -g -cel; c-he p-ccscs "••.:• •-!'.• NewYork as 10 IheMolhemo'lcs'of Le Carbusier'sideol villo machines
toovercame the impossible. What-i! change is dwelling culture, me and which perseveres in present-day's Post-Modernism and
myth, or maybe belter Ihe legend in which the dwelling is articulated, Ihls hJeo-Design.li however was not the pure producing dwelling oF the
. ::-• •cc:n--n- c:nc iiurecu c.—: -qg -a-yre.ac-ineshe- - -I' '•:•: ulun ,- r-g a-d cc cr :?c awe ling wilhin the new society by the
opinion are Ihe scattered frag-en-. u:amode-rmytnoflhe"achiiie vc -ri'i'y-uri.o-e'c : cc--cc-.c •••eder-s npl .c-sicle- owe --. uc
-cc-'-es --e lic-ci-ligu-e:. e r e c :"c .: :.-'rediscovery of the their nofural meoning, in favor of its gaols. Man delmts h c oca - • '-•
- : . " - d'-n-sc--. c-hn'si:-. -m-u-rere: s- ci-crene rr:lila-.-ccliccc-.c; Ihe instrument of language Ihe- allows h"m lo articulate his goals in o
images, in which each area is equc -u c-d s m a- w-li i-r .-,- ,•• •• i •• . -. ii-lii.:-.ii-..'ciuna'aered world in which every altitude, every
• ii-clnl c-.'u • '••::-',,•• ,.„• i-l..:; . I ,--,iv ..... win.: inly ••!• I--- I .•'•' In-. ::nt,-i IIKJ (ivrwi-. •
 repealing o d l i * cycle by ihe mochlnes inside of it.
"- rrurn'rylural model however should nol be mile
-:••?-. -c In so'-enhanpeis in rea.cog dwelling lo I lag inalion and i ngenu ity that ol lows hi m to sh ovv lo Ihe audi en<* the
-.-.-".-0 -o-.r. nrj. D..e -•-, - •-• : - : - ; o - - - : h - inneclions, scenarios and invented resemblances thai blend together
7.::. : :. , ec.c!:po!lseli.-eox::.:- :- r---e epo.b i
• •• ve T;:[iy.x-
i !--<- - A •..nil

reproducing of life, Ihe deell -p of Paused in his H? Acansiruc-ep-

rebuilding, the b r e a k i n g up of Ihe closed u-bon a r e a s by Ihe big
m e l r o i » l i s e s , the cosmos as the monstrous cepresentcriion ol a n
e i p l o s i o n thai rips a w a y ils clocks, Ihedeliciurn, Ihe chaotic
langaage- world. The ins gmf'canre of the delirium only cr :•: x - •--:-
•s?i;i;oc;-ec • • - . . - . - ; c : . : c.'.i d e w c l d . f-ecc-- : :.-r n?-no!-c..ve.e r x r --ec-i .•-= o-toacces it 0.1 Irani -re • s : t : r c
id artificially by --e-echnology o : imagination and Ihe sproduc ng colonizes a-0 - x : -< - I-other mores BPOE re o- e ;•
tchnology (ComereTs 01
a museum thai g a i n s l o r m a n d content by the presence of strange
a b j eels a n d mochineries gathered tc-gelher by a collet lor of genius.
f . - - . . . l - | i , . - • (is i l - . n - r r r r r . - i - :•::',•' h-.luiu . u | u . p . . : i-

d e s r e s - . p p D s e d l y suffers t ' o - c s a - . o - . c - c c ' c -,g t s o b c c l / h n y . y -; -epp'-'-ece-lcolall'meic-a: :ce: Ih? peine-; c a -a- -*.'-•-.:•
L
c:p. : : or s eooble so~e o'he-sc " c : . . : • p n p e c o - d a o : •.•.•- show any mulual r e l a t i o n s . S o ' r e x p - s e s o e i y c o - l i n c o u s w a - l d o :
'0 0.. - ] -eclci'gu-en' h e r e is a - c c e c h e l desire l e e l s Ihe lack objects a n d mechanisms wiihin the closed universe of Canterel's
. . _ , , , . . ici cioes n o : r. o n t o i - : o c - : " c eve-y 0 0 eel tiuv ; • loborotory pork, lilerollyond p h e n o m e n o l l y o m o c h i n e - p o r k consisting
of 0 piling up of apparently meoni rig less machines. Time seems to be desire lo dwell could be satisfied by Ihe real zo- on of Ihesuejec-r
hence there edsts some other p l a c e thol contai ns Ihe key lo desi re .-art ci.cn l i . t G t x - i f e l c o - :.• - Ire cieamcf-re indlv.dua - ; . s e
,,
-riss-p -'hisi~orld: i.lnclnemords-srepouNir,gnffcr.nilr! s The morvE laus machi nes a n d ob j e d s Ca nlerel gathers a round hi m as a defense againsi an Ersatz for living in a community should, in 0
o f f e r e d tDr sale as Ihe obviously closed n y * of i m a g e a n d scenario in simple analysis ol Ihe dreom iiself. be interpreted as 0 longing 10
Ihe Utopian models of m oder n architeclere. W o n e n d o w e d with a g o in by means o l his inventions like Aquamicons.Erylhril. Resurrek tin
mil s-Inline,-.': r •• c v a ™ ..• nil w a y '••... Ironically Ihe early models Ihe archileel LeCa[busier designed lo
poppets. The motion o f lime mostly is Ihol ot Ihe machi ne, o f a overcome Ihe individual ha use were si ill rooted in Ihe archiredomrDl
conti nuously re p e a l i n g cycle. Every ob jecl or m e d i a nism is e t p l a i ned rodellhal was also al Ihe base p-'-e npmdual house ere - - : - e -
O n o n e s i d e d ™ architect here is Ihe philosopher, Ihe almost s a w o d • : . - c - r . . . r - b a n t c r c l ' s d i s c o u r s e . - c-. reduces I h e m l o p u ' e ' . r : - p-

•nepce- •nesall-a'Ics'Jhc-l-inser.-ci : • ; - . : • ' - c - , p c i - i n d : v d . . a s ' t In ibis world of the ma chine there does not eiist a god. Everything is modelsoilhePlanVo,iin.lne.--ep Hob lolion.o-ThePcrdci-'C'. in
.. o x J ^ x p c i - d e ' p o n e a i c c - . - c f e l ' a n r p c r e n c y The e s - o

f a n s c e n d e n c e one h e - i t c s c - . c - : p - X O n c e o n e understood the u o n y - n t h o noi vidua I house -sel'. These models con be looked upon
m e a n i n g of Ihe mechon ism one d id not hove lo look lor something as an anti-urban tendency because they do nol inhabit the an ore--,-of
behind il. tilyondmelropolisbulbyeycl.dng
H e r e t h e myih ol 1 he mac h ine seems 10 be p e r f e c t , ih e scene 1 io of I h e

d..e -: - t r - i t r y - e cor uous y a - e . . : e ; - • a " o l o - e sosvc r e c h ' y technology. Omniscient man vanquished lime a n d so deolh. The
; • • ' - • • : • • • :•:::• • •-.'•••••[• y-c. ••
.:-m:trpar<v.it-i'sri o n e . oo.slkeoparadiselhalis
•„,:ri-
0 method ol enforced Ironsv

ur Sol, ne side there is the greal i r a t e - V c " :

ii-ek-o--.h: , - : . . r -c m.ser o : :-.nqs t e - . e : . ,
'ilh in h is awn pa rlc and on Ihe other s ide Ih e re ore the
rrs wilhoul 0 lot e, * e puppets. Ihe on. ••.-I • 11'
I..,,,;;., p. ...... • • c-.-.t ::l in.-iicl cf -.::;: I ?28 on wo rdsbui especially ntneonhiteclureofthe.illoSovoye.tlie
u—boose-1>; Ch:rr ;,
i.:n Op.'i -p| A n y . '-•

PlanObusis,asMor ; -eco-.:-.• c." 1. nvitcdlolokepo' 1 - - c b r - . :

isophecBu'we- get dso recognise Conlerelos on n-nn-mc-cnni;:1;-. -<• r-rsarrc c-tcccn .;...-, r e :
cer, Ihe myhh and uktplo bui Id er. •!, e ec I ig Ins 11 so
dern society, ihemosfer olthe machine. Conterel ihe
oway,wilhlhEaccepio-ce;!--c 0ml 1 -o- govern 'heg.anlolmost Iiv.ng
js. No longer religicm rror stole c re machine, ihe delirium".

neandtheir
sareforcedlo
c e c - n c r , -e by - e m s o- and o n - o - :::•;•- : sncllne
tonhoutation of men and machine anymore, to opproise Ihe
..--••:• ••<-. -.I'llrr-.o--. il-lu-mir- nlorliiolo-
...but more io moke them communicate together in order lo show ho™
m a - u - -es-vl-h ihe r-athine or wiinoiner-hingsici constitute a
machine'".
w-':---e5--mendingrnJ' ; Ye-se-:n -e-r -q'c: occep'or-ce is
-edco ea - e : ? : - : : ' - - : i - r : = r-.=y -pgu: a-oouo'-i
LwhyeWrrriKjhrhatiDniueiwtcremi^
prcrducesthediKCiurieofduellinj Or b e * * should produce, because
the real inhabitant hasto recogn.it the sewered images OS Ihe 'objects
. a: see-slo^eellhal whalhe sees a- - g . no-ely Ihe space
-ep-eten--a duelling, space as oca-e7C-,u : --.y:.,ni"!u , io pud so-: u
: : - : :•:•: •••:"• nap-ogium -led -.; - — p . ii- l-io- hi- -in- a.-
of orth.leclural designing we can recognise on emphasis on Iwp
aspects in his work: Ihe two-dimensional image communication of ihe
insidewith the outside world and Ihe four,dimensional'promenade
space emptiness)1!. An i m o g i - a y s i o s e - o - oc<; -or u p-ysicolly
-o- • -- -egaidle-he culsiaem.i I.ve-se world, and thol is mainly
iea-c-edfoc n rising |lhe nru-.ir ruso.-c.-lin -to- .'a--o
plane 0J1 "sea a- 'hc-fi.m'i-ui-il T" -.- cine- era less O" of these
Oip«CSilpmiibb» be fo*d in LeCorbuwrt museum model. In bis
-di-d.-j - . ' . .evens',! . . . . . : . ' . - -le enters Ihe
cirag-q-n-ea so-atDnof meiacy - e ce-'e-.uesecioling I no-by
dyi-z :.e-out bypassing u-der. Ir •- s c:.. -y .-rued ci-tl, aesec-a-e,
--e -,-n :u!mea-inge:l:'eemu-.-.-.y--T- ~-y ruu-g neic'iiossbs
through the 'collected inside world'ure - J course, goes through
adventures, tests his intelligence, courage, passion and returns to the
outside world as a wise man. He recorded and assimilated Ihe
•he i . o e ; - The course however wot fired ond obligatory, the itinerary
of Itw ore hiteklon, defined by the seporoting walls. Who! however
happens if these separating walls that ordered the redoubling inside
world to chronology, survc-ya: I -y :-:i -r.s- -a would all van sh i- f e
defmed by transversal communication wihh the surrounding, and as
tethat
is
jseeing
itionfar
:h Ihe
icotion
and Ihe
recent development in Ihe evou'c- ; ' ! ' « deol villa' '.end b o " dec
. :;::•:: |.c.ii---:.ui.e' ye Sovo.o oo"! n 0- :ii'nbo-.o-hc:
.••";•; -h. ooo do-pg-riss o -:.-.-•: c-nbcEcislcgu ci::-.c-:-
'echno-ortif icia I nolu re oFThe metropolis, to took upon nolure from he re
•..- - nrreruiirf V m T . T - c o e : . o So.o.e. -hie'bag-en-c :
dieom of VIi-giI o ni9h1more lo rhe Sovoyes ond d«eIIin9 51 III o
(jesiring-machme thoh only hhe Initialed seem 10 be eoooble od genlng
lothe penthouse of Cho-les ;iefig: v ; . :;'136 Avenue des Chomps
Elyseeslhall-iscosmopo l e i " i --'•- • e m i r o f i c - e e c o l ' e d o r o l
s. • i calis.ll: ob e:lsec~m ss o - e : _s Ee-b.se-i to de-sign - ! K 9
DeEc-slegu IkeCon-eie - '.ausse s_oc.snolesisbenlonlodsir.ro
- •:-;• s- ng ceiiai-lies ooc-o sees- -_-c mem bv hisielf-prcouaed
certainties, a way lo Hue more "let - i ond retracted ly, to dwell without
ihe necessity to dose Ihe spaces olthe house lor public Hie (the guests).
On Ihe contrary it becomes uc a t : ':• ccenb ' -e-luxci- on. r; ;•-• ••-.
:
oshiou' : : . Corle-el's pork '-ere becomes Ihe roof-garden ol
J---:-- : s : rsrcs: :-.-!: • • , ! • - • .:••.- rsi-ric-iir-d I: Ink'-1
also to be pod of, ihe enforced transversal communication in the
technical and archilectural play iha-De Beisiegui as a host and bon
-iionl performs in his 'precious shrine tor a mondaine elite', withe
periscope, a built-in tilmproiecto" - --.a mclcl ; m-scrccn thai u--cl:s
: . - : - c i - c a yownich Ihe-chance e- sou led u: by mca-s o : : e . '.
:..c -a by means of croc-s a - : : si-:-,-nj lies, by means o - :
complete alienqlion of every place •llhin his place, his ideal vilta as a
frogmen! of created disorder, his pr ,-oie delirium.
'Not without reason if is possible to enjoythe complete vista over Poris
- co-tr:sito Ih s Ihehigh ™o ! • : • -, "agmcnls of the ci-y's skyline-
ael- r,-i:nea-d--e E :e-o-.re- - ; - ; - s nc: o:l, Ihedigeslio-of
:.••::: v snuc'i Thesciu:-; sc ::s c-cii-.o-ea cie! o.veri' s
•••:..- :;C:II.H--he- !ci-l s;in. ,. :-slc--ce'cind'le:|i:nde ::-:;-,
rule, Dnd a plat Eta refuge Ihoi is no longer concerned about the desire
penthouse and Ihe.- c« eve- r r- ; :• -p.. c,c- bridged by a
:•:--: eg ::l-i:cl cm.: :e- scepe- Between fragment and whole there
_
: :":•:•' - isoss b !i,c : :- --ccc-t union. The artificial interference
•: esse-il:l. No" o-e o: lbe-ec--c : : c: nle-eiences however comes
-;foc Miote the aisccurse oe-.-.ee- "•-- :-c-he g-ande arge.me
ocean af the whole, that looms up aoove Ihe last terrace. The seo of
grass and Ihe large ocean of heovtn. accurately fenced in by
com sheshhe -o-mol measu-eme- : ; - D : C E a-d which isde-t rc-j by :
-s-arshysisclisolalo-.'hese.e- -g : ; e.-er, cs.a connec-or.c"
a- , joet-ardoesnpldesgro-,-:-ec.-owoirs.lnlhehouseofDe
:.- ye,;-., in s poeli: a : I y'e -i-g : sr-esen-eu os Ihe o s l s n n g e : - :
is more important, as an aliernni .---.- inew.de view on the ponorons
o'tln-ci'y lhe In-ge em pi ressnsesobove everything, it isa place thai
does not toke up contact with the spoceaf human intercourse, ond Is not
part of the uni verse al fin iteness'. Thus tdanfredoTafuri-'. But there
whereleCorbusie-cwc-'s b e r e s - s g . designs, there he produces bis
dwel ling by colonizing the metaphysical emptiness within
Le Cotbusier's machine with Ihe objects thai denote his dwelling". The
word-gome of Rousse I is substituted hereby the surrealistic dwell-game
olDeBeistegui with the attributes of bourgeois dwelling: mantel piece,
carpet, c lac k, candlesticks, Ihe statue in Ihe glass bell, Ihe mirror and the
scaly- ThoiiiMMuiKjIci- i : - • i", afCrinrcu- here orethe mean.ngless
tj-is-mgs. the - « : I I - : i'I- •.:: <•:':• rind i-nges ot De Beislegm.
So iiseemsl-a'lneci-ch -•:;'.••:• cfawcl ng is unimportant as long OS Ihe
: ' : n ledum model o-l-= - : . o.o -o.se - loim olo p'cg'o--:-o
seidmn .s-eseec-e:. Emc-• recess cccc-aing 1= l o V -•••-
O b . ; ' .Inea-c- !eo".re : : - e e : -con •-; owe res-rclion as o- see: 1 •
rnneypiodeand hre-cre " i e : : r--!-e sl-ec-uresthrl'o'ced ' .. - -
D« BelsliVgui brgak Ihelrwcrr through In Algiers..'". The Indlvidml
house overcomt? Or also jusl on wbanisllc ill usl on old parodist ibor
Ou r starting point was Ihe artoldwelling or the redoubling od (he world,
Iheeolonizationcf-here; • _- A nelir umihalforRoijssel ond
.e Cerbcs er s-IIrnci-l,e> s ; ; - '-efr-gnienls of-oe n,-e-ee—
century i-echo-onem- co .- . ;-se-• oV,--e mu n.e-se o- ; -c
--ei-ocolis. a '-echo-, r.o .I-:I - one' ml delirium lhal finds es ob e'e
reaction pofligue' In Ihe bathe lor-math inn. A delirium however Idol at
the moment evermore tends loon immaterial information delirium, to
. v ch Joes',VI c....issc- ore-:--: •••- The ricdine olspace as a category
the on Ihe individual name computer programmed computer-home':k
Or like Lyolord v-roie: '...it ottomodales our latent ideology (ot
Past-Made™ sm| losfiDwho. much Ihe new technologies, inparbcular
: hu-ion being ; ips > p " : - - -- Kow rneaspec. a-d - :-:----:-
smallest, of Lhe i-mo'er : s - : essuc-odis- deeliflcahoe. L:-.e -e
coo s. Int mniule-a - " s : : - - : : s ' c . m e o - ng.meo-s: --ere- a
that is no longer matter lor 0 pro ec-.and tuncoverso dissolving an Ifse
side of man lhal is correlofiveto lhal the one experiences who
undergoes it'".
al-hebeg'nn na arf the e'g-s-ee—r cen-urr ll 71 »| escaped Ihe England of
cop lolis'lc genesis ":?-e-c : : -e-ecno cal epos, who on hisislono
-esliums eorlh.wa'er a-d ice ..i-eo- -gs in ihe crops, sloresano
: In rib. who i p p i.,i:..':ic: •••. " y mas'eryover I y.ng bemes --z
his imperialistic enterprises are going to bring"- this colonization
seems to end with the last human, the hero of Morel's Invention by Bioy
Casares.in which he isconf-c-edwith Ihe on the indic-iduci. n:-:-
computer program--co. : : • : : • ::-d com: u-ei-heme nlhc : a-- .--:
tour-d mens ono p-ojec-oc : oerwc-recoubling and continuously
repelilionofofrorimen ••'••••.-.-,- i Gci-nai far wearenotyel.ttsaems
Ihol at the moment we butyl ImgciloOeBeisleguiourshrineor
mages co lecled :y omss- -.:-; • '- asMcndin calls ii . rh:
phi osop-ical nec-r-ercho-: s e ' : - d . :s Lyalard calls i-.rhe
'immaterial s', to redouble a.- :..-.yo-id by means of transversal
rcimmun col 0- nlnedes • - - - m o r n -e. I: colonize Ihe dei - u - - u s
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