Stress,strain

How do we characterise the times we live in? These are important questions. In 2000, ideas were articulated in a major multi -media exhibition at a graphic level. We must understand the psychology of needs

from the book of Bruce Mau LIFESTYLE =STRESS has **WORKED US OVER**=

RUPTURE
Poachers, mercenaries, militias, hijackers, terrorists, vigilantes, assassins: central characters in the ecology of stress. When market forces go beyond what the market can bear, the result is a rupture of the membrane of power. Violence spurts in the rent. Poachers, terrorists, assassins step in, not as alien forces, but as intrinsic players in the economy and ecology of stress. They complement and guarantee the flow of information, goods, capital, power, and the violent images they help generate

Logo

Each day, the average Western citizen sees, assimilates and recognizes 16,000 different logos. These are so many lighthouses guiding us in our experience of the world. As graphic equivalents of the compass, and as modern derivative of medieval heraldry, the logo first of all tells us where we stand. Its inscription on every landscape recasts space as site of perpetual recogniton. Its presence on every piece of garment recasts subjectivity as tribal.

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They gathered only on perfect sunny days. Under the open sky, they rehearsed a new pose befitting the anticipated event. They thought the future was suspended high above, so they postponed their lives to look up. They couldn’t know that other futures were being secretly forged on that same sky, right over the upward pointing noses; they had forgotten the sky had always been a surface for the inscription of mysteries. Most importantly, they had forgotten that the consequences of strain on the integrity of the body are unpredictable - just like the future======

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