Growing the city into forest
(C2) The historical-dialectical matter is pure utopia, is the world’s substratum (unfinished, inmanent, latent); a subtratum being baked by the dialectic fire of its own process. And being done in the same «what/which» self-dertermined intended laboratory, ultimately pending, of all our matter. Only that way has matter its own organizational process through life, consciousness, binding …
Q2)A more fleshed out thought in relation to the latent forests of Bombay: During my last week in India in December 2019, I stood on my mother’s 7th floor balcony in the city of Pune watching grey hornbills, kingfishers, monkeys, and snakes traverse the housing society compound. On one side was the bustling Bombay-Bangalore highway, …
( C1 – Commentary 1)Forests are latent properties/manifestations of many cities. Latency might be a more accurate description of the relation of forestcity to city. Many cities will express their forest, it is just a matter of time and how will the humans and other animals help. (drum duskin,*, 2020)
( Q1 – Quote 1 ) Thinking of the city as a latent forest – Latency «shows up» as deferred action or as hidden potential. If he project is about imprinting the city with the forest, or rather the forest on the city, so that it might develop into one eventually – the forest is …