approaching Savamala
"Alongside the postmodernism, there is always urban reformism too. It has always followed the transformation of the metropolis, recognising the changes in it, of course, but often mystifying it or making it utopian. This is the fullest extent of its effort: hypermodern reformism is still preoccupied to correct the metropolis from the inside. It is driven by the ideology of transparency (lightweight materials, linear figures, predominance of glass, etc.)... The concern is to bend the complex consistency of the metropolis to an axis of reading that is at once plastic and formalist: the architecture industry reveals here its kinship with the fashion industry and the film industry. This project extends to all the sectors of architectural production; it decomposes them and recomposes them according to logics that, in reality, hide a will to disarticulate any possible antagonism of subjects and of forms of knowledge and to flood with artificial light all the spaces where exploitation and pain cannot be shown."
Toni Negri, in From the factory to the metropolis
Toni Negri, in From the factory to the metropolis
