whole days
pics by familee at Bölmso, Sweden
02 agosto 2009
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Perhaps the dream of freely connecting to other people may always conflict with the dream of starting over again fresh and unencumbered. But the French Revolution showed something more particular about the result of these conflicting principles of liberty, something more unexpected. Rather than the nightmare of a mass of bodies running wild together in a space without boundaries, as Le Bon feared, the Revolution showed how crowds of citizens became increasingly pacified (numbed) in the great open volumes where the Revolution staged its most important public events. The space of liberty pacified (numbed) the revolutionary body.
Richard Sennett, Flesh and Stone
The particular problem of bare spaces
Perhaps the dream of freely connecting to other people may always conflict with the dream of starting over again fresh and unencumbered. But the French Revolution showed something more particular about the result of these conflicting principles of liberty, something more unexpected. Rather than the nightmare of a mass of bodies running wild together in a space without boundaries, as Le Bon feared, the Revolution showed how crowds of citizens became increasingly pacified (numbed) in the great open volumes where the Revolution staged its most important public events. The space of liberty pacified (numbed) the revolutionary body.
Richard Sennett, Flesh and Stone
