Showing posts with label death of superman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label death of superman. Show all posts

No superman allowed

In the contemporary city, time passes so fast that old symbols become outdated, and not due to time eroding but because they lose their context. Nothing dies of old age anymore.

A big difference exists between the country side (rural) – where aged symbols are metamorphosed into rites and the city (urban) where outdated symbols are simply lost. The city has no long term memory and the society modeling after it loses its property of retaining cultural heritage, every social product being a product made to expire when its local context is lost.

Modern man does not need superman anymore. Because no one needs to be saved anymore, he simply dies, remaining an impression in dusty magazines or on some internet “archives”.

I added to the existing context the actual formal interdiction of superman. I considered the transparent phone booths being the informal already given one, my intervention claimed to be the last drop in the death of superman.






(The killing of symbols, second motif)