From Foucault’s Madness and Civilization:
“At the end of the the Middle Ages, leprosy disappeared from the Western World. In the margins of the community, at the gates of the cities there stretched wastelands where sickness had ceased to haunt but had left sterile and long uninhabitable.”
“Leprosy disappeared, the leper vanished, or almost, from memory; these [...]
Archive for January, 2008
Madness and Civilization
Posted in Reading on January 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Dinner Pail Table
Posted in Table on January 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We were challenged to produce a table that developed some of the themes emerging in our studio work. This table was intended to be something that could occupy a real space within a brief to be developed for a site in one of the three cities of study.
My table is a table for an undertaker. It [...]
Intriguing
Posted in Reading on January 13, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Fear and Segregation
Posted in Maps on January 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Fear and Segregation
