“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Saturday, April 16, 2011

Speculative Realism and Architecture in Croatia


This upcoming conference looks good.

I saw some extraordinary architecture here in Taiwan. Some of it was from the Chiang Kai Shek period: obvious, brutal fascism, classical columns and Chinese bureaucracy in hyperbolic concrete. Some of it was low buildings simulating architecture of the Tang Dynasty. The most interesting architecture for me was at private Tunghai University but it seemed as if the public university, Chung-Hsing, had the most modern facilities.

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