“A mental disease has swept the planet: banalization. Everyone is hypnotized by production and comfort -- sewage system, elevator, bathroom, washing machine. This state of affairs, which arose out of a struggle against poverty, overshoots its ultimate goal -- the… — Tom McDonough Copy Share Image
“So many problems we will get to the bottom of later, but whose spatial aspect we must grasp right away. If the space of… — Tom McDonough Copy Share Image
“We are bored in the city, to still discover mysteries on the signs along the street, latest state of humor and poetry, requires getting… — Tom McDonough Copy Share Image
“We are leading as thorough a study of 'alienation's positive pole' as of its negative pole. As a consequence of our diagnosis of the… — Tom McDonough Copy Share Image
“We must change life,' the poet [Rimbaud] had written, and so the Situationists set out to transform everyday life in the modern world through… — Tom McDonough Copy Share Image
“There was good in seahorses, in yellow dwarfs of destiny, but they are in no way adapted to the requirements of modern life. Gilles… — Tom McDonough Copy Share Image
“The alarming lack of ideas that is recognizable in all acts of culture, politics, organization of life, and the rest is explained by this,… — Tom McDonough Copy Share Image
“8. Conditions of Dialogue The functional is what is practical. The only practical thing is the resolution of our fundamental problem: the realization of… — Tom McDonough Copy Share Image
“Unitary urbanism's point of departure is the changeableness of our aspirations and our activities. We know that neither eternal truth nor absolute beauty exist… — Tom McDonough Copy Share Image
“We leave to monsieur Le Corbusier his style that suits factories as well as it does hospitals. And the prisons of the future: is… — Tom McDonough Copy Share Image
“We could already try to lend a hand, to intervene if only by simply moving objects around. This would be better, on the whole,… — Tom McDonough Copy Share Image
“Henceforth the crisis of urbanism is all the more concretely a social and political one, even though today no force born of traditional politics… — Tom McDonough Copy Share Image
“Here too, as in the Commune almost a century earlier, the struggle was articulated around the hope that 'the antithesis between the everyday and… — Tom McDonough Copy Share Image
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