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A Genealogy Guide: The Social Fabric and the Collective Imaginary of Post-War Warsaw

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cold-war, utopia, escapism, power structures, construction of a narrative, urbanism, European Peripheries, socioaesthetics, modernity, mapping, ethnography, urban imaginings, enacting a collective utopia, mythopoeia, the social correlates of collective imaginaries, nationalism as social imaginary


on Social Fabric (under the idea of social fabric)

method 
-spatial scale/body,home,neighborhood,city
-degrees of exclusivity and openness/from the most private to the most public
-modes of social encounter and association with space /personal, interpersonal, impersonal

on the living house
the afterlife of a house, the memory and the experience of a domestic space.
intimate objects of the everyday 
retaining intimacy in objects

on functional city
the 'Athens Charter' was the result of the 4th meeting of the Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM) in 1933, a meeting that was held onboard ship, the SS Patris II, which sailed from Marseilles to Athens. 
the conference and the resulting document concentrated on the idea of the 'Functional City', a contribution to what is called "comparative town planning."
the architects and urban planners Jan Chmielewski and Szymon and Helena Syrkus, delegates of the CIAM influenced by the foreign avant garde movement, they adapted the spatial planning concept known as 'Functional Warsaw' (Warszawa Funkcjonalna) 


also on Post-War Warsaw

on mnemotechnics
the most important principle is the dominance of the visual sense in combination with the orientation of 'seen' objects within space.
principles and techniques: 
affect/repetition/association/ordo, brevitas, divisio/architectural mnemonic/graphical mnemonic/textual mnemonic/loci method

on quantums  
lattice 


on Collective Imaginary (under the idea of collective imaginary)

escapism
the two reactions of discontent are an individual economical action via exit and a participatory political action via voice -Albert O. Hirschman
+ Exit, voice and loyalty and Exit, voice and the state
'The breeding ground of disobedience does not lie exclusively in the social conflicts which express protest, but, and above all, in those which express defection
Nothing is less passive than the act of fleeing, of exiting'. -Paulo Virno

on disappearance and erasing (personal/collective) history 

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on fake identity and constructing a (personal/collective) history

on intelligence assessment
intelligence involves all-source collection, storage and indexing of data, usually in multiple languages, in the expectation that some small portion will later prove important.

Abwehr



'Affective Economies/my grandad' 
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