shelter

If we can widen the range of experiences beyond what we as individuals have encountered, if we can draw upon the experiences of others who've had to confront comparable situations in the past, then - although there are no guarantees - our chances of acting wisely should increase proportionately. 
E. H. Car, historian
revised May 20, 2017

Shelter, Gimme

Oh, a storm is threat'nin
My very life today
If I don't get some shelter
Oh yeah, I'm gonna fade away

War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away

Ooh, see the fire is sweepin'
Our very street today
Burns like a red coal carpet
Mad bull lost its way

Rolling Stones

... then continue from previous page
NB If you will, clink around other posts on this blog for Fred Keck, solar architecture, mid-century shelter, cooperatives. Another overdue melange on Lucille Lieberman Keck and Mabel Phytian Tylecote in preparation.

Luce Irigaray
Comment Habiter Durablement Ensemble?
Wandering to the Source of the Intimate
"Another era of speech is opening. In which it lets itself put in question with a view to dialogue, dialogues. It is no longer only speech which allots to the subjects, from what is hidden in its interlacings, the task of realizing an appropriate denomination., giving to them and taking from them the word by a gesture alone."  on the next page, "The subject then accepts being unsheltered."
(Not surprisingly, she plunges to architecture and social aspects in the link above.) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy3RdCd9zAM
 

A 'Feminestodes'

"Even if women somehow gain power, there's still going to be some demographic that is the powerless, some demographic that is exploited and oppressed, because that's how our society functions. And so the only way to create true equality, not just for women but for everyone, is to found our society in some other idea, in some other structure. That to me is much more interesting, and much more necessary, than just putting more women on the board of Facebook."

Writer Jessa Crispin rejects today's mainstreamed, neoliberal feminism, and calls for a return to feminism's radical promise:  a radically reorganized society.
She wrote the book Why I Am Not a Feminist: A Feminist Manifesto from Melville House.
(see Irigaray and Edith Stein et al, Dave Chapelle, even)

Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WJXHY2OXGE

Noam Chomsky's erudition, wisdom, humor and activist lifetime are peppered throughout such outlets as youtube and so many others.  

The Self and Others, R.D. Laing, 1961
http://leif.lege.net/doc/The_Self_and_Others__Laingsociety.pdf (full edition online somewhere)

The Divided Self, R.D. Laing
https://selfdefinition.org/psychology/R-D-Laing-The-Divided-Self.pdf

Gore Vidal video, October 2000.  Twins/selves, psychiatry, death, New York, Anthony Clare, mothers, marriage, sex, etc.  Radio interview, 41:00 + "All romantic stories end at Juliet's tomb."
Then George Simonet and his family cook story.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MG-Q2AO9i0Q

“Like innocence and hope for all  mankind, I number it now among the lostings”.
Endeavour, BBC, 2016


Carl Sandburg, Smoke and Steel, 1922
Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind

                                                   The past is a bucket of ashes.
1
The woman named Tomorrow  
sits with a hairpin in her teeth  
and takes her time  
and does her hair the way she wants it  
and fastens at last the last braid and coil 
and puts the hairpin where it belongs  
and turns and drawls: Well, what of it?  
My grandmother, Yesterday, is gone.  
What of it? Let the dead be dead.  
2
The doors were cedar
and the panels strips of gold  
and the girls were golden girls  
and the panels read and the girls chanted:  
  We are the greatest city,  
  the greatest nation:
  nothing like us ever was.  
   
The doors are twisted on broken hinges.  
Sheets of rain swish through on the wind  
  where the golden girls ran and the panels read:  
  We are the greatest city,
  the greatest nation,  
  nothing like us ever was.  
3
It has happened before.  
Strong men put up a city and got  
  a nation together,
And paid singers to sing and women  
  to warble: We are the greatest city,  
    the greatest nation,  
    nothing like us ever was.  
   
And while the singers sang
and the strong men listened  
and paid the singers well  
and felt good about it all,  
  there were rats and lizards who listened  
  … and the only listeners left now
  … are … the rats … and the lizards.  
   
And there are black crows  
crying, “Caw, caw,"  
bringing mud and sticks  
building a nest
over the words carved  
on the doors where the panels were cedar  
and the strips on the panels were gold  
and the golden girls came singing:  
  We are the greatest city,
  the greatest nation:  
  nothing like us ever was.  
   
The only singers now are crows crying, “Caw, caw,"  
And the sheets of rain whine in the wind and doorways.  
And the only listeners now are … the rats … and the lizards.
4
The feet of the rats  
scribble on the door sills;  
the hieroglyphs of the rat footprints  
chatter the pedigrees of the rats  
and babble of the blood
and gabble of the breed  
of the grandfathers and the great-grandfathers  
of the rats.  
   
And the wind shifts  
and the dust on a door sill shifts
and even the writing of the rat footprints  
tells us nothing, nothing at all  
about the greatest city, the greatest nation  
where the strong men listened  
and the women warbled: Nothing like us ever was. 

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Consider the human history of shelter 
from reed roofs to wooden shakes. connect the dots.

Inserted April 14, 2017 

Iaseh Md Rian, Mario Sassone, 2014 Tree-inspired dendriforms and fractal-like branching structures in architecture: A brief historical overview

The shapes of trees are complex and fractal-like, and they have a set of physical, mechanical and biological functions. The relation between them always draws attention of human beings throughout history and, focusing on the relation between shape and structural strength, architects have designed a number of treelike structures, referred as dendriforms. The replication and adoption of the treelike patterns for constructing architectural structures have been varied in different time periods based on the existing and advanced knowledge and available technologies.

See Duncan House, Flossmoor, Illinois, 1941. George Fred Keck, architect
http://solarhousehistory.com/blog/2016/6/5/kecks-duncan-house-a-new-look  No photos online yet of curving interior beams) Hugh Dalziel Duncan, Culture and Democracy: The struggle for form in society and architecture in Chicago and the Middle West during the life and times of Louis H. Sullivan, 1965, The Bedminster Press, USA

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095263514000363 

House of Tomorrow, 1933, Fred Keck, Chicago (soon to be the 'New House of Tomorrow' for restoration purposes)
2012, Beverly Shores, Indiana.  Todd Zieger, Indiana Landmarks, left; Bill Locke, Chicago Chapter Society of Architectural Historians
Please contribute to restoration efforts now underway with Indiana Landmarks.



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