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<div dir=3D"ltr"><br><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded me=
ssage ----------<br>From: <b class=3D"gmail_sendername">Franz Nahrada</b> <=
span dir=3D"ltr"><<a href=3D"mailto:f.nahrada at reflex.at">f.nahrada at refle=
x.at</a>></span><br>
Date: Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 12:19 AM<br>Subject: [P2P-URBANISM] Chomsky on ar=
chitecture<br>To: <a href=3D"mailto:p2p-urbanism-world-atlas at googlegroups.c=
om">p2p-urbanism-world-atlas at googlegroups.com</a><br><br><br><u></u>
<u></u>
<div>
<div align=3D"left" style=3D"text-align:left"><font face=3D"Arial" size=3D"=
+0" color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">a very not=
eworthy essay was published recently:</font></div>
<br>
<div align=3D"left" style=3D"text-align:left"><font face=3D"Arial" size=3D"=
+0" color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"><a href=3D=
"http://architecturemps.com/full-text-3/" target=3D"_blank">http://architec=
turemps.com/full-text-3/</a></font></div>
<br>
<div align=3D"left" style=3D"text-align:left"><font face=3D"Arial" size=3D"=
+0" color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">see also</=
font></div>
<br>
<div align=3D"left" style=3D"text-align:left"><font face=3D"Arial" size=3D"=
+0" color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"><a href=3D=
"http://chomsky.info/articles/20131001.htm" target=3D"_blank">http://chomsk=
y.info/articles/20131001.htm</a></font></div>
<br>
<br>
<div align=3D"left" style=3D"text-align:left"><font face=3D"Times New Roman=
" size=3D"+0" color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:Times N=
ew Roman"><i>Emeritus Professor in the Department of Linguistics & Phil=
osophy at MIT, Avram Noam Chomsky is amongst the world=92s most cited livin=
g scholars. Lauded as the =91father=92 of modern linguistics and instigator=
of the =91cognitive revolution=92 he was voted the =93world=92s top public=
intellectual=94 in 2005. He is, however, best known, and at his most contr=
oversial, in the fields of political criticism and activism. Perhaps the mo=
st prolific author alive today he has engaged with issues ranging from the =
Vietnam War, US policy in South and Central America, what he calls the =91U=
S-Palestinian-Israeli problem=92, the Spanish Civil War and the Indonesian =
invasion of East Timor, to name but a few.The scope of his thinking is noth=
ing short of immense.</i></font></div>
<br>
<div align=3D"left" style=3D"text-align:left"><font face=3D"Times New Roman=
" size=3D"+0" color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:Times N=
ew Roman"><i>Despite this range of subjects, however, one area that Chomsky=
has not discussed is the built environment. Here, for the first time he is=
asked to consider the contemporary infrastructure of the United States in =
the context of his writings, criticism, and thought. In doing so, he discus=
ses the military infrastructure crossing large swathes of the southern Unit=
ed States in the form of the US-Mexican border. He also discusses urban spr=
awl as a product of what he calls =93social engineering=94 =97 a project co=
nceived and orchestrated by a sophisticated web of affiliations across the =
government and the private sector. Caught up in this, he also pinpoints the=
subprime crisis and the current economic recession as the result of a matr=
ix of forces within which architecture inevitably played a role. In short, =
he offers his
particular perspective on what lies behind some of America=92s most conspic=
uous architectural and infrastructural projects.</i></font></div>
<br>
<div align=3D"left" style=3D"text-align:left"><font face=3D"Times New Roman=
" size=3D"+0" color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:Times N=
ew Roman">------------------------</font></div>
<br>
<div align=3D"left" style=3D"text-align:left"><font face=3D"Times New Roman=
" size=3D"+0" color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:Times N=
ew Roman">some quotes:</font></div>
<br>
<div align=3D"left" style=3D"text-align:left"><font face=3D"Times New Roman=
" size=3D"+0" color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:Times N=
ew Roman">"The origins of suburbia reveal an attempt to take over a fa=
irly efficient mass-transportation system in parts of California =97 the el=
ectric railways in Los Angeles and the like =97 and destroy them so as to s=
hift energy use to fossil fuels and increase consumer demand for rubber, au=
tomobiles and trucks and so on. It was a literal conspiracy. It went to cou=
rt. The courts fined the corporations $5000, or something like that, probab=
ly equivalent to the cost of their victory dinner...."</font></div>
<br>
<div align=3D"left" style=3D"text-align:left"><font face=3D"Times New Roman=
" size=3D"+0" color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:Times N=
ew Roman">"It is simply not true that suburbia is a product of the mar=
ket, or market forces, or people=92s =91uninfluenced=92 desires. It is the =
result of a deliberate social engineering program =97 led from the center. =
It is totally political in that sense. ... It didn=92t emerge spontaneously=
=97 a magical product of the market. It was engineered for a specific rang=
e of interests."</font></div>
<br>
<div align=3D"left" style=3D"text-align:left"><font face=3D"Times New Roman=
" size=3D"+0" color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:Times N=
ew Roman">-----------------</font></div>
<br>
<div align=3D"left" style=3D"text-align:left"><font face=3D"Times New Roman=
" size=3D"+0" color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:Times N=
ew Roman">maybe a good move towards understanding that the left was too bus=
y atacking unequal distribution of wealth to understand the whole form that=
our material environment took is essentially and basically flawed.</font><=
/div>
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" size=3D"+0" color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:Times N=
ew Roman">FN</font></div><span class=3D"HOEnZb"><font color=3D"#888888">
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