“This city is not about other people or buildings or streets but about your mental structure. If we remember what Kafka writes about his Castle, we get a sense of it. Cities really are mental conditions.
the city that Ai WeiWei writes about is Beijing. “[it] is a nightmare. A constant nightmare”, he closes his thought.
and we all know his reasons for these strong words.
me, I am more drawn to “mental condition” phrase. it echoes my recent note, where i was arguing for a shift of perspective on Bucharest. as a week-long experiment, to start with.
did you try?
in a week from now i’ll be launching a new online project with a collective of friends, a page i hope you’ll all enjoy. there, we will be coming back over and over again to the topic of Bucharest, its now, future and scenarios. we live here, and we care.
