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August 26, 2009
Coffee and loneliness In becoming thrown into loneliness within the city, we become reflective about what has been ruined and our fragility for goodness.
Gary Sauer-Thompson, Adelaide Parklands, 2008
The ruins and fragments of the past live on into the present but the stories that they provide us with are never wholly consistent. Ruins invite competing and contradictory narratives about time and identity. More broadly, the ruin places under question the notion of history as a sequential narrative, whilst at the same time insisting on its own historicity.
The ruins of the industrial capitalism encapsulate a lament for worldly failing, a regret for the passing of time and an anxiety about being hurt, feeling vulnerable within the becoming digital world.
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