Thursday, May 17, 2007

Urban Panic

An interesting meditation by Bryan Finoki at Subtopia, here.
...Berardi describes the state of urban territory as striated by new dimensions of panic where the mental and physical environment of the city overlap in an over-saturation of signs “that create a sort of continuous excitation," he writes, "a permanent electrocution, which leads the individual mind as well as the collective mind to a state of collapse.”

2 comments:

troutsky said...

I watched Children of Men last night, a perfect depiction of this dystopic Architecture of panic. It is all Gaza, Beirut,Bahgdad hyper-saturated into the collective imagination. Think of the dust covered zombies streaming away from the fallen towers a la 9/11, the roving gangs of post Katrina New Orleans..

helmut said...

I haven't seen it yet. But... Netflix....