Showing posts with label symbols. Show all posts
Showing posts with label symbols. Show all posts

Like

first part of like series

I'm noticing that more and more, media, currents of thought and self-helping techniques tell us to think positive, to erase all the "no" and all the negations from our behavior and way of thinking.

Facebook is one of the more obvious materialization of these ways. You have only one options in evaluating a thing one says (something): like. You can't dislike, you can't show your incertitude, it's simply the like and a fake smile. You either like, or you shut up.

The two sides are no longer created in the classical antagonism with us - against us. It's just you're with us or you don't exist.

In honor of this, this series of images (part of "the killing of symbols" project) will show the implementation of like in real world scenery.

Brave new world, I salute you again.



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In the contemporary city, time passes so fast that old symbols become outdated, and not due to time eroding but because they lose their context.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exists between the country side (rural) – where aged symbols are metamorphosed into rites and the city (urban) where outdated symbols are simply lost.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)