NY

"New York has never learned the art of growing old by playing on all its pasts. Its present invents itself, from hour to hour, in the act of throwing away its previous accomplishments and challenging the future."

"The desire to see the city preceded the means of satisfying it. Medieval or Reneaissance painters represented the city as seen in a prespective that no eye yet enjoyed. This fiction already made the medieval spectator into a celestial eye. It created gods. Have things changed since technical procedures have organized an 'all seeing power'?"

"It's hard to be down, when you're up."

Michel de Certeau "Walking in the City"


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