PoMi CATALOGUE: 'TOWARDS A GENTRIFIED ARCHITECTURE' |
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Genteel Architects in Absolutely Gentrified Countries of the Next Century according to the Pomi Catalogue
The future world Pomi depicts is full of somewhat dark notifications. We encounter such notifications or conceptions in the pages of the catalogue:
Violence, imposition, traditionalism, genetic projects, absolute domination over bodies, imposing the tyrant’s own formal language as absolute aesthetic, making every kind of historical reference into something that can be made into a collage in an independent and irredeemable way, even deeming the power of such a situation as the most normal outlook. A strange marrying of avant-garde with military. The prevalence of the genetic mutation project based on the production of state devices by the state itself as consumer objects. The sale of normalisation models for the importation of violence. A massive sum spent on soma circulation dressed up as myriad form and activity. The futureless existence of censure. The artificial production of guilt and culprit to create a realistic effect. The re-marketing of foreclosure as freedom and the re-modelling of cities as prisons. The re-defining of the boundaries of being imprisoned and being suppressed with a spatially topsy-turvy entity. The bestowing of monumental status to a new spatial organisation that allows the auditing at every opportunity of population flows to the cities. The marketing of the replacement of conventional panoptic devices with new fetish tower architecture. The normalisation of violence and degradation as a masculine power factor. The invasion of all public places with military forms. The emergence of ready-made military colony cities. The recycling of the unfinished racial project of Nazism and the founding of sexist state structures resulting from a further evaluation of heteronormativism. The development of a recycling model of those who do not have the power to invest in the genetic improvement project as raw material for the system. The recycling of the world-whitening project as an urban model. A model for ironic novelty production based on the cutting up and reassembling of ready shapes. The nationalisation in an auditory context of gratification using the female body. The new production of nature as a eugenic raw material and its marketing to cities...