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181 In a city like Detroit, where manifestations of its own mistakes are as common as the purple lips of Joumana Kayrouz, entropy has a stranglehold. There is hardly a "present" in Detroit, just a past and a future that are not mutually exclusive. Overgrown weeds, cutting through cracked concrete, make for quite a romantic image, and the shitty graffiti-covered halls of Michigan Central Station is the perfect set for an Eminem music video. The ruins of Detroit are the perseverance to make funny faces despite the warnings of your mother: "If you keep doing that, your face is going to stay that way!" In many ways, its face has stayed scrunched, lips puckered, and eyes crossed. What an unreal place, where we still hang out hat on tenacity, "blue-collar," "going to work" and of course so much work has been done here, yet we have really what to show Not much more than somone who never goes a day without masturbating, and has stiff bed sheets to prove it - is that not admirable work ethic! An interesting act to consider, masturbation - a physical stimulation of the body, performed with the body that is mediated by the virtual, memory refreshed, an object or a real partner; all of which must remain in some way remote. An ex-girlfriend's sheets from KOHLS can be recalled, perhaps more vividly through a simple fifteen minute afternoon session, where pathetically they will slide away from your ugly thighs back into the archives of memory leaving you cooly recalling why you so desperately wanted her to dump your ass so long ago. That is, of course, not to say that these memories, while specific, are always perfectly bound to the experience from which they originally were generated. What's inside your skull doesn't just do things "right." Binary is tidy and was not modeled after the brain. Therefore we must consider fidelity, for memories are not true fascimiles of expereince, properly achieved. They are more dynamic, built things, by us - congruent to experience. They remain warm like the sound of a record, they are analog in space, they do not understand threshold. All of these things, however, are vestiges of a time extinguished, historical avatars, reminding us how in the end the sun bleaches even the brightest of colors. Of course there is a temporary charm in the spectacle of the ruin, but this charm is subject to a proximity. No one wants to live next to a funeral home, and have to consider the indiscriminate indifference of the universe over their morning coffee. And once the nostalgia bleeds out, the blue and yellow letters of IKEA appear that much more vivacious in the minds eyes, and frozen "Swedish" meatballs can seem exquisite. This is the Eternal City, where history has been rendered a fiction, no more real than a Rob Zombie film, a perverse yet novel sentimentality. The future within the eternal city is simultaneously being attained and yet it retains a romantic remoteness. Disposability means inherent renewal in this place, and the representation of resilience means a built-in, increasingly shorter, increasingly brighter half-life. Italo Calvino's novel Invisible Cities creates a place similar to this: Isidora, therefore, is the city of his dreams: with one difference. The dreamed-of city contained him as a young man; he arrives at Isidora in his old age. In the square there is the wall where the old men sit and watch the young go by; he is seated in a row with them. Desires are already memories. 5 This is the Eternal City; Livonia, Michigan, just as it used to be Rome, or to Robert Smithson, Passaic, New Jersey. We're on so many drugs, junkies for what constantly eludes us, energy and time. Through highly advanced modern technology we've managed to fabricate "energy," even sugar-free - "NO CARBS NO CRASH LATER." Much in this same vein, our greatest triumph may be mastering time, which the suburbs provide a zone for. A sort of synthetic "anti-entropy" exists here, a fascimile modeled after its namesake, where the instant a crack appears, the cavity is immediately filled by something else, and this something cannot be a true progression, but a latex Halloween mask.
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1 DETROIT RESEARCH post-studio art,
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5 Imre Molnar b. Hungary, 1951, d.
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7 Detroit Research will Publish: AD
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9 NOTES ON BIOPOLITICS 134 Michael
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11 Detroit Research is published in
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Introducing Detroit Research: A jou
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throughout. Above all, we would lik
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10 Each future issue of Detroit Res
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Originally published in Ground Up 1
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Originally published in Ground Up 1
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This mid-February morning, from my
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tion of the works is clearly though
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19 Betty Woodman, “Pillow Vase, V
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21 Ceramic and mixed media works co
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23 Tim Mast Tim Mast Janet Janet Ay
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25 Though Tim pursued law, and Mari
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27 ... The Final Frontier ... Micha
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29 is closer to its future than we
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31 function akin to redundancy in s
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33 OF OTHER SPACES
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35 By representative I intend above
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37 at becoming voyeuristic objects
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39 that this is the City, where the
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41 _________________________ 1 Anot
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44 A Nice Spot Along the Water phot
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46 Fig. 2. Ziggurat, East, Summer I
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48 Elliot M Abrams and Corinne Fret
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51 SEEING BEAUTY IN ALL STAGES: AN
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53 or maybe there’s a sense of my
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55 Fig. 8. Relics, an installation
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59 Fig. 12. Books, 2008 - from Roos
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61 It’s about inner peace and pea
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63 neighborhoods in the city, this
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66 Scott Hocking’s Long Look at t
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68 Visions of the End of the World
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70 Image courtesy of Scott Hocking
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Lynn Crawford SCOTT HOCKING 72 THE
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Art of the Commons: Envisioning Rea
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78 The Power House, 2009-present. T
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87 Fig. 24. Close My Ass - Scott Ho
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94 The (Re)Shape of Things: Michael
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96 Smith’s practice, suggesting a
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98 Pianist Thollem McDonas, 45, is
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100 Not only has Thollem performed
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EB: CAM (Contemporary Art and Desig
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104 Elysia Borowy-Reeder, Exec. Dir
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OCCUPY DETROIT, EXPERIENCED 110 110
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112 In late September of 2011, my h
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114 Abel Speaks. May 21st, 2012, Wa
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116 Durbanville - Pop Up Shanty Tow
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118 Eviction Defense Rally - The Cr
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120 Michael Stone-Richards [T]he co
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122 with technology (say, Machine)
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Samantha Bez on Paul Chan’s Waiti
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128 consumption of a work that fram
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238 SEPTEMBER - OCTOBER 2014 GILDA!
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