Collage City V - Collision City and the Politics of ‘Bricolage’
(...) the conceptions of “total architecture” and “total design” are present, of necessity, in all utopian projections. P 87.
Taste is, of course, no longer - and was, perhaps, never - a serious or substantial matter; (...) the uninhibited aesthetic preference of the present (...) is fir structural discontinuities and the multiplicity of syncopated excitements which Tivoli presents. P 93.
(...) we return to rhe activist utopian myth as it was received between the twi world wars. (...) a condition of violent and rapid change, unprecedented in the history of mankind, has produced a state of disorientation, of suffering, of exploitation so profound, a moral and political crisis of such dimension that catastrophe is surely imminent, perhaps inevitable; and therefore, in order to ensure the orderly progression of human affairs, (...) the enterprises of mankind must be brought together into a closer alignment with the, equally inevitable, forces of blissful destiny. (...) society must rid itself of outmoded sentiment, though, technique (...). P 94.
But, if the ideally neutral observer is surely a critical fiction, (...) any literal usage of a “neutral” grid labours under approximate problems. The grid is either all-encompassing - a practical impossibility, or it is to be delimited - and hence not neutral; (...) in the one case, the process elevated to the level of the icon and, in the other, the covert statement of a tendentious idea. P 96.
The architectural components of populism are all for democracy and all for freedom (...). P 97.
(...) if one assumena that all ideas are implicit from the beginning of time (....) and if onw, simultaneously, assumes that all knowledge is accessible (....), then the irritant and the problem of future odeas will logically vanish away. P 99.
“Growth” assumed to be uninterrupted by politics; total design and total non-design, both equally “total” the grid of freedom, assumed to be neutral andd natural; the unchecked spontaneity of “the people”, suppones to be equally healthy and independent; the strange collusions between “science” and “destiny”, between fantasies of authority and fantasies of independence (...). P 100.
(...) architecture is a social institution related to building in much the same way that literature is to speech. Its technical medium is public property abd, if the notion that all speech should be aproximate to literature is, ipso facto, absurd and would, in practice, be intolerable, much the same may be said about building and architecture. P 101.
(...) if democracy (...) is, inherently, a collision of points of view and acceptable as such, then why not allow a theory of contending powers (...). P 106.
(...) in spite of the abstract universal goals demanded by teoretical liberalism, there still remains the problem of identity, with its related problems of absorption and extinction of specific type (...). For the true empirical order was never liberty, equality, fraternity; but it was rather the reverse: a question of fraternal order, a grouping of the equal and like-minded, which, collectively, assumes the power to negociate its freedoms. P 116.
(...) whatever may be the empirical and whatever may be the ideal (...), the ongoing thesis presumes the possibility and the need for a two-way argument between these polar extremes. P 117.
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