Thursday, July 29, 2010

Mine & Frontality

Wildness by Sanford Kwinter

"If our culture has lost interest in "the city" it is because we no longer know what it is (or whether it exists at all.) But this is no license for complacency or passive acceptance of what has come to replace it... The urban is the primordial modern human wilderness."

Term of engagement_ Mine & Frontality

mine
[mahyn]
verb
  • to dig under to gain access or cause the collapse of (an enemy position)
  • to extract from a source
  • to burrow beneath the surface of
  • to dig into
  • to extract resources
  • In agriculture: to grow crops in soil over an extended period of time without fertilizing



fron·tal·i·ty
[frən-ˈta-lə-tē]
noun

  • a schematic composition of the front view that is complete without lateral movement
  • a scene in a plane parallel to the plane of the picture surface
  • Facing something head on
  • Parallel planes of alignment to a view

"They are wild systems that range and explore an mine their environment, that capitalize on accidental successes, store them, and build upon them. They are densely layered systems..."

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