Call it The Soul of Man under Trumpism, perhaps.
From Bertolucci’s Conformista, such an uplifting vision of human possibility ho hum…
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Nowadays, the more overt symbols of such rampant psychopathy involve enormous buildings filled with downtrodden wage-slaves and escaping justice for sexual assault and fraud.
I suspect that it’s the same illness, we’ve just come along in our resistance to such.
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You’re out of the woods
you’re out of the dark
you’re out of the night
step into the sun
step into the light…!
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I translated the signage.
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Looks like it’s unseasonably warm in DC as a crowd already begins to gather at the entrance to the Trump inauguration ceremony.
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Where’s the big gold “T”?
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“Delicious” and “Not Delicious”
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Yeah. I’m a fan. There’s many examples surviving in Italy.
There was a war between two schools of Italian Fascist architects - the modernists and the Roman revivalists. Mussolini ended up favoring the latter, which is certainly a blot on his record of governance.
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Kinda looks like me when I’m confronted with…math.
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It’s like an evil Max Headroom.
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At least as early as 2005:
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Hey, the Trump Building also has one of the key styling features of Italian Modernist Fascist architecture - the line of squares making up the multiple equal entrances. That’s weird because I always though of this feature as egalitarian - the multiple entrances indicating the building is open and the equality of the entrances implying the people entering are all equal.
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Anyone interested in this should watch Jonathan Meades’ documentary on Mussolini’s architecture:
(also currently on Vimeo & iplayer).
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