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Hakim Bey (n/a)
The Architectonality of Psychogeographicism or The Hieroglyphics of Driftwork
In: Hakim Bey and Ontological Anarchy: The Writings of Hakim Bey, The Hermetic Library.
<p>Obscure & mysterious grottoes into which they enter, imitating serpents -- spaces of return to an intimacy that "once upon a time" was shattered by memory -- by the simultaneous reiteration & belatedness of memory -- that faculty of human consciousness "closet to the divine". But don't they say that "to forgive is human, to forget is divine" ? In the ritual reiteration or "remembrance" (dhikr) of the sufis one forgets the "self" precisely in order to recall the Self; -- thus to re-member is to erase separation, & this erasure is a species of forgetfulness. (In certain key Islamic buildings like the Alhambra the reiteration of dhikr as calligrammatic text becomes the very definition of built space as mnemonic device or "Memory Palace" -- not ornament but the very basis or crystal-precipitation-principle of architecture.)</p>
The Sad State of Architecture in America: A 2-D, Iconic Silence