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Proposed
Teilhard Chardin Complex : Image : Harry Smith |
"The experience will not be in
the domain of hyper-consumption encouraged by our culture
and by Cyberspace, but in the domain of frugality. We choose
frugality in view of its hold on interiorization and its coherence
with the limitations and the glories of the planet.
Since Arcosanti is a place in search
of the miniaturized by way of complexity, and since cyberspace
is a non-place in search of the complex by way of miniaturization,
I am proposing an internship for insider-outsider interaction
via the practice of building and living in a non-virtual
environment frugally imprinted, a habitat dedicated to
urbanization."
--- Paolo Soleri
The Cosanti Foundation is planning
to start construction of the Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Complex on the south slopes of Arcosanti. The complex
is mainly intended to be the eventual residence and work place
for participants in the Paradox Program, those digital "insiders"
who are at home on the Internet, working in digital media,
developing their nexus with Cyberspace.
The Pierre Teilhard
de Chardin Complex:
The complex is named after
the Jesuit priest and paleontologist who in the 1940s
presented the idea of the Noosphere, an anticipation
of the Internet and Cyberspace.
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