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special autonomy contains the word
“place” in modernist thought and
language. It refers to locations with at least a
vague name and an implied prominence over
non-places. But aside from traditional monuments,
little in current notions of place relies on the
role of memory in constituting placemaking. Today,
therefore, place exists in disconnection with
event, an incorrectly separate term with its own
semantic lineage. This disjunction is both the
opportunity of postmodern architecture and what
locative media art, with its union of place and
event, seeks to obliterate, as the argument and
examples in this essay indicate.
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