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Old April 5th, 2008, 04:22 PM

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Default Re: Postmodernism

here is a video which is considered a classic in Pomo thinking. the Pruitt-Igoe housing represented modernist ideals of progress and order. This video is showing them from the Pomo perspective, they look so sinister. Cold faceless giants. The way they simplify and standardize people into objects. That housing project eventually turned into a slum, no one wanted to live there. People are not the orderable objects that modernity wants us to be. That's the message of Pomo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t29fgA5M7VA

I should specifically add that the destruction of Pruitt Igoe was so symbolic for Pomo because it was the destruction of the modern idea that through progress and order we can _design_ away poverty and other ills of society. The best designers, architects, and planners all came together to build that housing project to solve problems of poverty, yet all it did was worsen it. It got so bad the projects had to be destroyed.
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