2.09 The desire for ownership, domain, occupation & totalizing control is a fundamentally disruptive urge, and a fundamentally human one, at once violent and utopian. To exist in a free zone, able to let go – or to lose control.
Thinking of the formation of such spaces in terms of a physical analog: density. A jarring loss of density, to the point of its approaching zero. Absolute limits never reached, exponential inflation as a type of resolution. Zero resistance.
This will to abstract space, and to abstract life, everyone and everything immediately accessible. The dream of life as data, as a series of control points, crystallized, frozen, sorted, searchable, self-contained and air-tight. One-off but endlessly-accumulating. The Modern dream of autonomy, recycled / Modernism / recidivism.