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Thursday, December 11, 2025

The Futurist





 


A Futurist, but not a Brutalist - too ludic, too goofy

I guess Gehry (RIP) was  considered a postmodernist, but I don't see what he is quoting, citing, reviving here... these are shapes and surfaces without precedent, surely. 

I mean yeah it's not modernism in the sense of stark, unornamented, bracingly ugly, vaguely inhumane. 

But it's more futuristic than that aging idea of the Future


A Telex from yesterday's future

An example of what I call "the rhetorics of temporality" - the way critics compulsively position and reposition things they like, ...