2012/12/11

reading about Tokyo...



“Living becomes the art of living in the labyrinth”


“The obscure place in which the network of streets might not obey any rules. In the labyrinth it is chance and surprise that reign supreme, witnessing the defeat of pure Reason”

fluidity
viscosity
connection

idea of complexity – Gilles Deleuze

“We must forget the city of history and accept the “e-topias”,
evolved urban systems networked with the rest of the planet that are anything but utopian, probably even “atopian”

“Before us is the future’s future” Franco Purini

horror plaeni (fear of fullness) – Japanese aesthetics - 

“Manga, like the city, can be a wonderful kind of nonsense” –Yoshiharu Tsukamoto-