What does anyone think of redoing the WTC site with four smaller towers in a
square shape with a big glass Millennium Hut in the middle? I don't think
anything else will suffice.

Some people say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire,
I hold with those who favor fire.

But I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice

–Robert Frost
(John Maeda's favorite poet)


>From: joy garnett <joyeria@walrus.com>
>Reply-To: joy garnett <joyeria@walrus.com>
>To: list@rhizome.org
>Subject: RHIZOME\_RAW: Victims of Realtime
>Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 11:10:16 -0400
>
>…on the current ongoing memorialization of 911:
>
>{ A response to "Penn Station Memorial"; for images and original post, go
>here: http://www.holyfuckingshitday.com/archives/000033.html#000033 }
>
>The memorialization of 911 is a ritual artifact from another time when the
>Public Memorial served as a reasonable coda to a full horror of events that
>was by necessity disclosed gradually, in a logical timeline, and hence took
>time to absorb. By contrast, the memorialization of 911 actually began on
>September 11th, broadcast side-by-side with the almost pre-packaged saga of
>the main event. There is no longer a logical sequence for these emotions
>and rituals because there is no elapse of time between the event, its
>disclosure and its memorial. Everything is happening in a flash, everywhere
>and all at once.
>
>We have yet to develop a way to deal with the <i>speed</i> with which
>everything unfolds before our eyes. We are victims of realtime. (okay, I'm
>paraphrasing Virilio – but I can't help it).
>
>For those of us who live in New York, there is another problem: the endless
>media repetition of images and commentary coincides with our 'actual
>experience.' It is not so much the mindlessness of the commentary as its
>proximity in time to the events being commented upon. We are condemned to
>re-experience everything at least once, but more often <i>constantly</i>,
>and we are compelled to compare our individual experiences with the
>official version, over and over again, whether we want to or not.
>
>In other words, we are never allowed to 'leave'; and hence the bogusness of
>memorials: we actually don't need any reminding, since we never really
>stopped thinking about it. (Do we ever stop thinking about the dead?) And
>of course, as has been pointed out, 911 never stopped happening: the
>compensation of victims, the brawl over rebuilding the site at ground zero,
>the no-fly zone fiasco; it is all still happening. We continue to
>memorialize the present, and maybe even the future. Perhaps we should
>organize memorials for events that <i>might</i> happen, or that in our
>current fatalism we feel are bound to happen.
>
>So for the time being we will have to put up with memorializing piles of
>rubble labeled 'art' in Penn Station and other public places, magazine
>covers and special issues with yet more endless and newly disclosed
>pictures, never-seen-before video clips of the falling towers taken by
>survivors hiding under cars, 'high-minded' special exhibitions at every art
>institution in the country and locally, shows of sanctimonious and poetic
>crayon drawings done by public school children and artists alike.
>
>–Joy Garnett
>http://firstpulseprojects.net
>
>
>+ I love this thread's tuna! Leslie Nielsen
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