Thursday, August 26, 2010

Lexicon_02: Sanford Kwinter

Sanford Kwinter: "Wildness"


(from reading)



"the violent encounter of the two worlds, stockbroker / office worker vs. gang member/street dweller, that of the white, bourgeois Upper East Side and that of the besieged and socially disenfranchised ghetto, was nowhere more dissonant, and dramatically displayed."

bourgeois (topic-based)
1. a member of the middle class. 2. conventional; middle-class. 3. dominated or characterized by materialistic pursuits orconcerns.

Concept of frontality (topic-based)

Self desiging (topic-based)

"among its most obvious and singular features: how rarely the wilding trajectory encountered roadway; not only did it neither follow nor seek existing circulation paths, it seemed oblivious to them, heedless of all those 'Other' patterns and process that belong to the organized, optimized"

trajectory (descriptive / active)

1. the path described by an object moving in air or space underthe influence of such forces as thrust, wind resistance, andgravity, esp the curved path of a projectile

Patterns (descriptive / active)

1. a recognizably consistent series of related acts

Process (descriptive / active)

1. a systematic series of actions directed

optimized (descriptive / active)

1. to write or rewrite (the instructions in aprogram) so as to maximize efficiency and speed in retrieval,storage, or execution.

indirectness (descriptive / active)

1. not in a straight line: not in a direct line, course or path 2. not immediate or intended of effect or consequence

super fluidity (descriptive / active)

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