黑眼圈

“Imagine mankind as dwelling in an underground cave with a long entrance open to the light across the whole width of the cave; in this they have been from childhood, with necks and legs fettered, so they have to stay where they are.

They cannot move their heads round because of the fetters, and they can only look forward, but lights comes to them from fire burning behind them higher up at a distance. Between the fire and the prisoners is a road above their level, and along it imagine a low wall has been built, as puppet showmen have screens in front of their people over which they work their puppets’ ….

’Now consider,’ said I ‘what their release would be like, and their cure from these fetters and their folly; let us imagine whether it might naturally be something like this. One might be released, and to walk and look towards the firelight; all this would hurt him, and be would be much too dazzled to see distinctly those things whose shadows he had seen before. What do you think he would say, if someone told him that what he saw before was foolery, but now he saw more rightly, being a bit nearer reality and turned towards what was a little more real? What if he were shown each of one was? Don’t you think he would be puzzled, and believe what he saw before was more true than what was shown to him now? " 

"Far more" said he.                                                                      Plato, The Republic,  Book VII.

檔案與居所

誰是霍布斯邦（Eric J. Hobsbaum）？──讀『趣味橫生的時光－－我的二十世紀人生』

文／楊照

這是一部我很想把所有細節寫下來的錄像作品。

Lindsay Seers 在  Tate Britain Triennial Altermodern 的作品 Extramission6 Black Maria 大概是目前我看過最驚悚的類紀錄片吧。 回想了一下，似乎在分類裡確實是沒有恐怖驚悚類紀錄片，這樣的分類 （有嗎？）。

建築師與農舍

一封給下一代建築人的道歉信

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