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Profound Modernity

V. Mitch McEwen

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Mexico City, June, 2017. Photo: V. Mitch McEwen.

Positions
October 2017










Notes
1

Georges Didi-Huberman, “The Drapery of Sidewalks,” in Herzog & de Meuron: Natural History, ed. Philip Ursprung (Lars Müller Publishers, 2003), 269–278.

2

Bruno Latour, “Waiting for Gaia. Composing the common world through arts and politics,” (2011), .

3

Ibid., Didi-Huberman (2003), 269.

4

Georges Didi-Huberman, "The Supposition of the Aura: The Now, The Then, and Modernity," in Walter Benjamin and History, ed. Andrew Benjamin (Bloomsbury, 2005).

5

Ibid., Didi-Huberman (2003), 271.

6

See .

7

See .

8

See Antonio Barrera-Osorio, "Experts, Nature, and the Making of Atlantic Empiricism," Osiris, Vol 25, 1 (2010).

9

See Román Alvarez, "Structure of the Basin of Mexico City and its Relation to Destruction in the Earthquake of 1985," Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (September, 1988), ; .

10

See .

11

See and .

12

Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Manifesto for Maintenance Art 1969!, 1969, .

13

Ibid., Didi-Huberman (2003), 271.

14

Javier Alcocer and W. D. Williams, "Historical and recent changes in Lake Texcoco, a saline lake in Mexico" International Journal of Salt Lake Research Vol 5, 1 (March 1996): 45–61, .

15

Andrew Russel and Lee Vinsel, “Let’s Get Excited About Maintenance,” New York Times (July 22, 2017), .

16

Ibid., Ukeles.

17

Bartholomew Ryan, "Manifesto for Maintenance: A Conversation With Mierle Laderman Ukeles," Art in America (March 20, 2009), .

18

Ibid. Barrera-Osorio.

19

Alexandra Brandt, "Innovative Solutions to Mexico City’s Urbanization Problematic," Infrastructure Mexico (September 7, 2015), .

20

See .

21

Ibid., Latour.

22

See Georges Didi-Huberman, "Picture = Rupture’: Visual Experience, Form and Symptom according to Carl Einstein," trans. C.F.B. Miller, Papers of Surrealism, Issue 7 (2007), .

23

See .

24

Ibid., Ukeles.

25

Ibid., Latour.

26

Bruno Latour, “To modernize or to ecologize? That’s the question” in Remaking Reality: Nature at the Millenium, eds. Noel Castree and Bruce Braun (London and New York: Routledge, 1998), 221–242, .

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