Senkaku wrote:Forsher wrote:What distinction? Distinguish between what?
You JUST introduced it! Lmfao
WHAT DISTINCTION?
What the fuck are you talking about? What is being distinguished between?
I DO NOT WANT TO REPEAT THIS QUESTION AGAIN. I have no fucking clue what you are saying. Not a fucking jot.
You’re literally arguing that the Colosseum should evoke a set of things that excludes totalitarianism because of its political historical context, and that this therefore permits a unique criticism of brutalism as giving form to a uniquely modern totalitarian aesthetic.
No, it allows some buildings to evoke totalitarianism. It doesn't allow Brutalism to uniquely evoke totalitarianism. Some other architectural style could, too, just not anything pre 1900 because it precludes anything from prior to the 20th Century from evoking totalitarianism.
I’m saying people don’t distinguish between the evocation of totalitarianism in the modern sense and oppressive or imperial scale in the timeless sense when looking at a monument or large structure. We can write about the distinction, and it might be useful to consider historically, but it isn’t something that springs to mind when you’re actually experiencing a space.
Is this your fucking distinction? Distinguishing between things that aren't the same and have no reason to be imagined as the same?
People don't think Brutalism = totalitarianism because they're analysing all the individual concepts it does evoke and doing something "well, this makes think of tyranny, oppression, savagery, control etc and all those things make me think totalitarianism". They're looking at a Brutalist structure and gong "well, this makes me think of totalitarianism, oppression, control, tyranny etc". Totalitarianism is not a second order concept but a first order concept, same as "savagery" or "tyranny".
This is clearly rooted in your weird (if shared with Ifreann) understanding of totalitarianism. For you, there is nothing specific about totalitarianism, but most people have very specific ideas about totalitarianism and those ideas quite simply are radically different to how they imagine "imperial" in the sense of even people like Nero or Napoleon. You and Ifreann have a concept of totalitarianism which is incredibly broad and is capable of embracing Nero and Napoleon.