
Bez pracujących na trzy zmiany fabryk trolli strachy nadal mieszkały by w nas, ale chyba mniejsze, takie strachy na lachy
Stefan Chwin talking about his book Freedom to write after Yalta Uses the phrase "architecture of fear". Literaryly nice, thanks to well-setched words immediately catchy and clear. Unfortunately, it is not entirely adequate for the fear that is splaying in our heads. Powerful snowmen swirl in them, deep swirls pull down towards the disaster, dark water approaches the mouth, flooding the throat. There is no trace of architecture in this boil, it would be necessary (for the reader's use) to clear these fears trembling from every news. But how? Thicken, drain, cut with a sudden ultimate horror? Specs from aggregates, assembly foams, silicones, reinforcements, concrete like steel will not help here. And even specialists in marketing and election campaigns. Architecture of fear It is a vision as dignified as a Gdańsk tenement house, perfectly fitting into the empty space between the impressive emptyness of metaphysics and the newer, modular, transparently glazed "security architecture". The street built in this way will be picturesque, charming, leading nowhere. One of many in our common metropolis.
The architecture of fear is not a trivial architecture of oppression, it does not boil down to the sapot and barracks. It is something much more subtle and at the same time more common.
Since fear is so ubiquitous, so labile, maybe you should try to determine its infrastructure, installation first? Do you just have to "go on the cable"? All as one husband we can confess that: News is my shepherd, I will not miss anything when he is with me. Without servers, without connections, without troll factories working on three shifts, fears would still live in us, but probably smaller, more familiar, such straw Fears on lachy.
Even if we can't touch the architecture of fear, we can slowly index, recognize, point out places, institutions, people who release more fleeting fear into the atmosphere than all the chimneys of the world.
If we could shift the emphasis in this turn to architecture out of fear, our location would be a bit better. It is worth working hard on the descriptions of the architecture of fear of the 21st century. U-stalling How is it around is the basic activity Homo sapiens.