It’s time to focus on the city. Time for the Brain. But not the brain of Chief Architect yet. The brain (cerebrum) is called the largest electrical organ of a human. We are fascinated by the brain’s electrical activity. Similarly, every city can be described and studied as a hub of life that transmits, generates, and consumes electricity. We can compile a complete diagram of a city’s electrical connections, and we have round-the-clock records of the electrical activity of cities. We have such data even for Capital Cities. The word capital comes from the Latin caput (genitive case – capitis), it shows how anthropocentric we are in describing our environment and the forces shaping it. And how much we want to describe ourselves precisely as a network of physical forces.
Łódź extends on both sides of Piotrkowska Street. Lisbon, sprawling along the banks of the Tagus, like an electrical circuit, where the flow of energy illuminates historic alleyways, accelerate trams. Analyzing the electrical connection diagrams of Lisbon and the round-the-clock records of its activity, we can see how modernity intertwines with tradition. It’s no different in Verona.
Does a complete diagram of the electrical network and power consumption in Verona allow us to discover that we are a species capable of inventing a story from Verona, where the existence of Juliet and Romeo is a fact more significant than the existence of the rest of Verona? Well, unless Willem Dafoe drops into London again and the city runs out of power. He visited Łódź lately… It was a long time ago.
In a certain period of the development of a young homo sapiens, dance is the most important and very physical fact. Dance… Look at the dance scene from Haunted Honeymoon on our list at 5inLodz.pl/scenes
This is Emma Stone’s choice.
