In 1995, a British Columbia justice wrote that, "putting material in the garbage signifies that the material is no longer something of value or importance to the person disposing of it. When trash is abandoned, there is no longer a reasonable expectation of privacy in respect to it. [1]
Furthermore, whereas the life cycle of large scale constructions is growing longer, the life cycle of our houses and the articles we use in daily activities is gradually growing shorter [2], sacrificed when they are no longer of use. [3] As the day's routine proceeds the pile of paper mounts higher: the trash baskets are filled and emptied and filled again. [4] It subordinates life to organized destruction, and it must therefore regiment, limit, and constrict every exhibition of real life and culture. [5]
In a world of global flows of wealth, power, and images, the search for identity, collective or individual, ascribed or constructed, becomes the fundamental source of social meaning. [6] Time is compressed and ultimately denied in culture, as a primitive replica of the fast turnover in production, consumption, ideology, and politics on which our society is based. [7]
Schiller defends his decision to write on problems of aesthetics at a time of political crisis, insisting that the only way to achieve true freedom is through beauty. [8] beauty, in the romantic mind, meant a certain utilitarian order and purposefulness: the new planners set their minds in another direction and sought to preserve and if necessary to introduce the rough, the unexpected, the decayed, the disorganized, the dilapidated.
The destruction of reality, of the material, is necessary if form is to emerge as a meaningful symbol, as an autonomous human creation. [9] This is not to say that the exercise of freedom is completely indifferent to spatial distribution, but it can only function when there is a certain convergence; in the case of divergence or distortion it immediately becomes the opposite of that which had been intended. [10]
As Arendt has written: The man made world of things, the human artifice erected by homo faber, becomes a home for mortal men, whose stability will endure and outlast the ever changing movement of their lives and actions, only insomuch as it transcends both the sheer functionalism of things produced for consumption and the sheer utility of objects produced for use. [11] Thanks to that privilege which does not last but which one enjoys during the brief moment of return, the faculty of being a spectator, so to speak, of one's own absence, there was present only the witness, the observer, with a hat and traveling coat, the stranger who does not belong to the house, the photographer who has called to take a photograph of places which one will never see again. [12] "as an act of moral redemption.” [13]
For example, sophisticated techniques of chemical analysis are used to simultaneously study and preserve ancient wall paintings; fragile objects, such as baskets; and unstable objects, such as metals that are subject to rapid oxidation and decay once they are removed from their buried environments. [14] And to this the greatest attention is necessary, [15] as an effort toward more sustainable practices. [16] The meaning of things can never be permanently fixed. [17]
[1] Zimring__Encyclopedia_of_Consumption_and_Waste
[2] Ockmann__Architecture_Culture_1943-1968
[3] Eco__The_Name_of_the_Rose
[4] Mumford__The_Culture_of_Cities
[5] Mumford__The_Culture_of_Cities
[6] Zimring__Encyclopedia_of_Consumption_and_Waste
[7] Castells__The_Rise_of_the_Network_Society
[8] Harrison_Wood_Gaiger__Art_in_Theory_1648-1815
[9] Semper__Style_in_the_Technical_and_Tectonic_Arts_or_Practical_\
[10] Hays__Architecture_Theory_since_1968
[11] Hays__Architecture_Theory_since_1968
[12] Zizek__Less_Than_Nothing
[13] Zimring__Encyclopedia_of_Consumption_and_Waste
[14] Zimring__Encyclopedia_of_Consumption_and_Waste
[15] Holt__Literary_Sources_of_Art_History
[16] Zimring__Encyclopedia_of_Consumption_and_Waste
[17] Mallgrave__Modern_Architectural_Theory
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