Momenting the memento. Fashion, education & the city

There's a lack of memory going on, traces get lost, the past is without possible future. On the other hand, memory is not necessarily positive because of the burden of heritage influencing the possible future too much and nothing new can anymore. The contrast between memory and oblivion has to be faced dynamically (momenting) by playing in the space between arcadia (an idealised past) and utopia (an idealised future). This space-in-between (memento) is a monad, a unique concentration of time and space to be lived and re-membered. Otherwise there is only conservation (museums), reanimation (zombie brands) and objectification (shops).

This book doesn't display any decorative writing, it's poetic and rough, made of visions and intuitions, nightmares and philosophical thoughts, errors and knife-cutting statements sequenced all along unexpected articles and research-based chapters.