Ummh

moderation · #1 April 12th, 2008, 03:53 PM

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Omnirizon said:
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.

Hey I really liked the Pruitt Igoe example. I saw Koyaanisqatsi and the other movies in the trilogy a while ago, but I don't think I read them explicitly in terms of modernism vs postmodernism.

By the way, I just ran across this science fiction story by Cory Doctorow that has themes of postmodernism vs modernism in it. The Carousel of Progress provides an interesting (and hokey) contrast of a positive representation of modernism and futurism. Anyway it's a rather fun and thought provoking story.

http://craphound.com/?p=1823
http://craphound.com/index.php?cat=6&paged=6

Wokeye · #2 April 15th, 2008, 12:55 AM

LOL I saw another ad today. Either that's a bloke with really nice legs, or those hot-chicks-who-like-fantasy-TBS-strategy-games are breeding! YAY!1!1

sector24 · #3 April 15th, 2008, 12:27 PM

I don't want to know where the bog beast is in the new ad.

Amhazair · #4 April 15th, 2008, 12:45 PM

Perhaps I wouldn't mind being where you don't want to know where he is.

Slobby · #5 April 20th, 2008, 08:32 PM

The new ad scares me! The lady looks like she's gonna take dom3 away from me!

Wokeye · #6 April 20th, 2008, 09:02 PM

Indeed, she does look to take her need for Dominions 3 very seriously.

Endoperez · #7 April 21st, 2008, 02:23 AM

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Slobby said:
The new ad scares me! The lady looks like she's gonna take dom3 away from me!

The one with only legs showing, or the one with black-haired, green-garbed woman? Or is there a third new one?

Amhazair · #8 April 21st, 2008, 06:37 AM

Well, if you have to ask...

Apparently you have nerves of steel. The green-garbed woman doesn't scare you at all? Not even a little bit?
I felt like crying myself, actually.