თბილისის საჰაერო გადაწყვეტილებები

decomposition

The process in which traditional cultural forms have destroyed themselves as a result of the emergence of superior means of dominating nature which make possible and necessary superior cultural constructions. – Guy Debord

Interesting, that the term ‘psychogeography’ was anarchist affiliated from the beginning. It represents a network of ideas which belong not to the academic world, but to the underground, to intellectual posers and alcoholics, and Manchester’s Hacienda. It is a way of making sense, or not making sense, of cities and walking and the oppressive commodification of our experience encouraged by capitalism, and if Guy Debord could see the way we live now he would probably feel vindicated. As a word it explains itself and then evades definition, dissolving into a soup of poetry, politics, alcohol, Paris taxis and free association. Cities are often anarchic, scale and density dissolving the visibility of our responsibilities. When Moscow stopped dictating the parameters of Soviet housing blocks, Tbilisian apartments blossomed into deregulated balconies, terraces. Stucco and brick art nouveau façades belonging to an earlier, imperial edict – from St Petersburg - often mask Persianate courtyards. How the AC units are integrated represents a sort of synthesis of these two eventualities; deregulation and the streetside façade being less important than might be expected. Why they actually complement the architecture is hard to explain. Perhaps because they are a reminder of where we are. They are the freedom of the individual to deface, to survive, to find their own conditioning solution.