Montag, 14. Juli 2008

Ad. Plastic

Jonathan Raban writes in Soft City:

“Cities, unlike villages and small towns, are plastic by nature. We mould them in our images: they, in their turn, shape us by the resistance they offer when we try to impose our own personal form on them… But the very plastic quality (soft, amenable to the dazzling and libidinous variety of lives, dreams, interpretation) which make the great city the liberator of uman identity also cause it to be especially vulnerable to psychosis and totalitarian nightmare.”

published in 1974

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