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[deseopolis]

Bodies now last longer than the buildings they occupy. Buildings no longer hold memory. Their memorializing function has been displaced by images. Buildings are at best fragile images, props in heterogeneous publicity campaigns. Digital archives have taken over the role of storing memory from solid structures. Collective memory is diffused across an invisible electronic landscape rather than concentrated in singular monumental objects.

The Architectural cult of synchronization. Mark Wigley

[deseopolis]

The fact that consumer products are exhibited like works of art— deprived of their use value, as it were — is also unusual for capitalist advertising iconography, which is entirely focused on the moment of consumption

Performative Historiography. Phillip Ursprung— ARQDOCS 2018