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Hana. Ellen Rogers. 2010.
untitled by Dan McPharlin on Flickr.
“Giant red spheres and yellow pyramids can be seen in the horizon”.
Castle view, west Afghanistan # 23. Brian McKee. 2002
I’d like this kind of ruin structure for the transition from the History of Mankind scene to the desert, and final part.
Castle, Afghanistan #38. Brian Mckee. 2002
The pleasure of the ruin
In Die Ruinen (1907), George Simmel described the ruin as a “dialectic figure that allowed to reconcile opposed forces: every new historic stage appeals to it to solve deep internal contradictions”. The ruin is inherently bipolar; it oscillates between the public and the private, interior and exterior, nature and culture. Human beings raise buildings following a principle of verticality. But nature tends to erode and destroy this vertical constructions and restore them to the horizontal plane.
(…) The poetics of collapse, an aesthetic that simultaneously generates anguish and pleasure; anguish coming from the threat of death present in all catastrophe, while pleasure is triggered by the psychic liberation produced by viewing the collapse of oppressive symbols of power.
(…) The ruinous aesthetic of the sublime looks to awaken the being of its torpor, to make it feel deep and affecting feelings that explore the most secret corners of the soul. -Daniel Canogar.
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