Word: logicality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...solution to the problem does not lie in returning to the old system, which also required speculation and risk-taking, but in extending the logic of the lottery. The university could call for an assembly of rooming groups after assigning lottery numbers. At the assembly, the spots available in each house would be presented on a big board, and the groups would be called in order to make their choices. After each group made its decision, the number of spots in the chosen house would be appropriately reduced. In this way, speculation and risk-taking would be eliminated because each...
...women "as sexual objects for domination, conquest, violation, exploitation, possession or use, through postures or positions of submission or servility or display." The aim was to eliminate the objectification of women--the portrayal of the female sex as a tool for attaining sexual satisfaction. Viewing women this way, the logic goes, encouraged the act of rape...
...market. But they quickly repented. "That is where half my life has been spent," he says, "and where my various pets are buried. Everything kind of spreads out from there." Now the new house is for sale, and he and Merula are comforting themselves with a wry, Guinness-style logic: "We're going to be so old and blind and deaf by the time the road gets there that maybe we won't notice it." Old age seems a long way off for such a quick mind, and those eyes and ears, which have missed nothing for the past...
Mies, meanwhile, was taking the logic of the empty architectural box to its unnatural extreme in the U.S. His campus for the Illinois Institute of Technology is a grove of steel ectoskeletons, essentially giant one-room buildings. The Farnsworth House (1951), a planar H-beam box floating over a floodplain outside Chicago, was Mies' last modest building, and the most affectingly American one. (Alas, his project for an Indiana fast-food stand never got built.) Farnsworth looks like a house, just barely. After it came almost nothing but true Miesian "universal space": high-rises, modeled on his twin apartment slabs...
...narrative continues to suffer unexplained breakdowns, lapsing into semi-poetic word association, noises, and archaic spelling. These breakdowns jar all the more powerfully as they occur within passages of complete textual self-control. They undermine the text's tacit claim of logic leaving a wasteland devoid of any structure, any shelter...