Yes.
Rather, we should kick back, crack a beer, with old timers @seeking_Trad, @wrathofgnon, @Western_Trad, @Arch_Revival_, @Trad_West_Art. The future belongs to Twitter’s Architectural Dark Web - the ugly underbelly of culture-war clickbait and scammy fringe skirmishes vying for influencer status, purveying divisive nostalgia, political pearl-clutching, weird nearly-nazi manosphere memes, weaponised heritage assets unironically shit-posted to garner subs for their drop-shipping promotions.
Rather, we should kick back, crack a beer, with old timers @seeking_Trad, @wrathofgnon, @Western_Trad, @Arch_Revival_, @Trad_West_Art. The future belongs to Twitter’s Architectural Dark Web - the ugly underbelly of culture-war clickbait and scammy fringe skirmishes vying for influencer status, purveying divisive nostalgia, political pearl-clutching, weird nearly-nazi manosphere memes, weaponised heritage assets unironically shit-posted to garner subs for their drop-shipping promotions.
Architecture has always been a Ponzi scheme, its journalism a mere handmaiden to privilege ~ why not go all in: monetise your outrage, flog a dog whistle, pimp your dead cat. We build after the end of history. There is no timeless way of building now.
Long story short. Capitalism hemmed us in. A vampire economy stranded new architecture on a temporal arête: algorithmically constrained to the past’s machine-learnt data sets, chronically indebted to a future already sold. New architecture was dead on arrival: conceived with a (Sebaldian) eye to its future existence as ruins. New architecture is an airless tyranny of vacuous amnesiac novelty charaded in the speculative conditional. New architecture is an ouroboric zombie apocalypse inside the hell of a simulacrum’s eternal regress.
Long story short. Capitalism hemmed us in. A vampire economy stranded new architecture on a temporal arête: algorithmically constrained to the past’s machine-learnt data sets, chronically indebted to a future already sold. New architecture was dead on arrival: conceived with a (Sebaldian) eye to its future existence as ruins. New architecture is an airless tyranny of vacuous amnesiac novelty charaded in the speculative conditional. New architecture is an ouroboric zombie apocalypse inside the hell of a simulacrum’s eternal regress.
Palliative to new architecture: 200words! Convening a sordid self-righteous undertaker class of commentariat late modern miserablists.
[24.11.20]
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