May 20, 2011
Fabulous article taking you from your Starbucks coffee latte to foaming in haute cuisine (foamed rootbeets), and to foaming materials for a new world. He elegantly makes comparisons of Margaret Thatcher politics and the improvement of ice creams — none of those two things are far away from the hollowness and mistrust of our time. Enjoy
Hollow Inside: Starbucks Foam and the Rise of Ambiguous Materials
May 12, 2011
May 6, 2011
I love this proposal from KæreKbh about making a whole web of sky walks and roof top gardens that could connect the city in brand new ways. Would be nice if I did not have to get down on the street when go shopping and could imagine enjoying the city life seen from above. Would be great if the web was extended with sky bike paths….
May 4, 2011
This symposium on the politics of architecture and its unnatural relationships to the ecology debate might be really interesting even though I don’t know any of the speakers…
May 4, 2011
Foam_Institute for Lightweight Structures and Conceptual Design Stuttgart
In this very thorough post Adrian Lahoud walks us through a long investigation on the concepts of community and what we have so long tried to constitute at ‘the common’. We get an insight into, communism, Georg Simmel, Derrida, Benjamin, the world wars, demonstrations, the crowds, cold war anxiety, and finally he ends up with Peter Sloterdijk’s spherology and the descriftion of the city as foam, where we live in co-isolated bubbles where our sharing of thin membranes as both our inner and outer walls places us in a co-fragility and therefore gives us a much more unease (unbehagen) notion of the collective and society. We have lost the cold war anexity and in a time where the earth’s population is rising in such a speed that the air we breath becomes an explicit consumer god that we can fight about, the air-conditioning of the space ship earth and of our locale spheres become the politics of our time.
Society is the sharing of the air we breath….
