i am jack's inflamed sense of rejection

Sent: Tue 2008-02-19 11:49 AM
Subject: i am jack's inflamed sense of rejection

Studio,

below is a pairing of quotes balancing, question, killing and celebrating between Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk and An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth by Bruce Mau. http://www.brucemaudesign.com/manifesto.html

These are to inspire, provoke thought, question and destroy architecture_i mean re-conceptualize the idea of architecture. Not architecture itself as an isolated moment, but if it were ALL moments occurring simultaneously. Now get off your asses and do something!

PAIR 1
"It's only after you've lost everything," Tyler says, "that you're free to do anything." ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 8

1. Allow events to change you. You have to be willing to grow. Growth is different from something that happens to you. You produce it. You live it. The prerequisites for growth: the openness to experience events and the willingness to be changed by them. ~Bruce Mau, An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth, 1998


PAIR 2
If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person? ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 3

8. Drift. Allow yourself to wander aimlessly. Explore adjacencies. Lack judgment. Postpone criticism. ~Bruce Mau, An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth, 1998


PAIR 3
At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 6

18. Stay up late. Strange things happen when you’ve gone too far, been up too long, worked too hard, and you're separated from the rest of the world. ~Bruce Mau, An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth, 1998


PAIR 4
All a gun does is focus an explosion in one direction. You have a class of young strong men and women, and they want to give their lives to something. Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they don't need. Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 19

43. Power to the people. Play can only happen when people feel they have control over their lives. We can't be free agents if we’re not free. ~Bruce Mau, An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth, 1998

PAIR 5
I've met God across his long walnut desk with his diplomas hanging on the wall behind him, and God asks me, "Why?" Why did I cause so much pain? Didn't I realize that each of us is a sacred, unique snowflake of special unique specialness? Can't I see how we're all manifestations of love? I look at God behind his desk, taking notes on a pad, but God's got this all wrong. We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens. And God says, "No, that's not right." Yeah. Well. Whatever. You can't teach God anything. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 30

28. Make new words. Expand the lexicon. The new conditions demand a new way of thinking. The thinking demands new forms of expression. The expression generates new conditions. ~Bruce Mau, An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth, 1998