Brothers, we have arrived at the global city of our god, in this post~avant garde age of information and new media. We glide through the corridor of these pixilated streets and isometric views of the digitized mass with our gui enhanced electric diode displays and wireless/wired, multithreading data cruncher/extractor. Our visions are augmented, our senses hyper active, and our fingertips restless. There are no paths we can’t subjugate. There are no spaces we can’t occupy. The gravity of the city generating machine; part economy, part culture, part aesthetic, part nature, part digital; we are no longer making city out of steel and mortars; we fuse live data with hyperwire, modeled, parametricized, and rendered; we are making city out of thin air. We have sullied the purity of civilization with globalization and the innocence of our humanity is lost beyond redemption. Our religion is mutation of nature with concrete, steel, and semi~conductors; we have over~rationalized the unrationable, the indestructible nature of human spirit against the mechanized, jail~broken, virtualized byproduct of post~consumerism. What is there left to do but build more walls, roads, and cell towers. If this diabolism be our fate, then let it burn to the ground in a swift, lamentable chasm of self~destruction. Like Sodom and Gomorrah, let us be clean again, let us be innocent again. FUTURE PROOF, A Manifesto, DIMITRI KIM, MM1X
FutureProof
Lamentation of Global Urbanism SCIArc Master of Architecture Thesis, 2009 Thesis advisor: Peter Zellner, Jean Michelle