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Locating Invisible Cities. Week 9. Stills from “Powers of Ten ,”1977 written and directed by Charles and Ray Eames. Chapter 9. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Page 1: Locating  Invisible Cities

Locating Invisible Cities

Week 9

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Stills from “Powers of Ten,”1977written and directed by Charles and Ray Eames

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Chapter 9

And Polo answers, “Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: Each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances , a shapeless dust could invades the continents. Your atlas preserves the differences intact: that assortment of qualities which are like letters in a name.” (137)

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Tango, 1982, Zbigniew Rybczynski“Even the sky has disappeared. I might as well leave the window. There are twenty-six of us lodged in my room: to shift my feet I have to disturb those crouching on the floor...” (147)))

Procopia, Invisible Cities

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“Cecilia,” Invisible Cities

Photo: Alex Maclean.“The places have mingled,” the goatheard said. “Cecilia is everwhere. Here, once upon a time, there must have been the Meadow of the Low Sage.” (153)

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Penthesilea, Invisible Cities

Photo: Alex Maclean.“The question that now begins to gnaw at your mind is more anguished: outside Penthesilea does an outside exist?” (158)

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Marozia, Invisible Cities

Berlin Free-Zone 3-2”, Lebbeus Woods, 1990, Proposal for an abandoned government building in reunified Berlin.

“Marozia consists of two cities, the rat’s and the swallow’s; both change with time, but their relationship does not change; the second is the one about to free itself from the first.”

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Berenice, Invisible Cities

“Metropolis,” directed by Fritz Lang, 1927

…in the seed of the city of the just, a malignant seed is hidden, in its turn: the certainty and pride of being in the right—and of being more just than many others who call themselves more just than the just.” (162)