I have pasted a link http://www.stevenconnor.com/marks/ and a text below for your reading: *Michel Serres, Le tiers-instruit, Paris, Bourin-Julliard (9 août 1994)
"The current tattooed monster, ambidextrous, hermaphroditic and mulatto, what can it make us see, now, under its skin? Yes, blood and flesh. Science speaks of organs, functions, of cells and molecules, only to admit at last that it's high time we stopped speaking of life in laboratories; but science never mentions the flesh, which, quite rightly, signifies the conflation, here and now, in a specific site of the body, of muscles and blood, skin and hair, bones, nerves and diverse functions, that inextricably binds that which pertinent knowledge analyzes." […] "Now already for a while many spectators will have left the auditorium, tired out by ineffectual theatrical effects, irritated at the turn from comedy to tragedy, having come to laugh and deceived at having been made to think; there will be some even--knowledgable specialists no doubt--who will have understood on their own terms, that each portion of their knowledge resembles the coat of the Harlequin, since each one works at the intersection of many other sciences and at the interference point of almost all of them. Thus their academy--its encyclopedic institution--formally rejoins the comedy of art."
In this IL Otis course We will re-construct past physical and social nexuses of neighborhoods/communities in LA; combining both architectural and design components and in as much art, cinema and private histories of present and past community members.
Tattoos in LA have totally different meaning compared to Japan. There's even a movie made about the yakuza in Little Tokyo.
I have pasted a link
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and a text below for your reading:
*Michel Serres, Le tiers-instruit, Paris, Bourin-Julliard (9 août 1994)
"The current tattooed monster, ambidextrous, hermaphroditic and mulatto, what can it make us see, now, under its skin? Yes, blood and flesh. Science speaks of organs, functions, of cells and molecules, only to admit at last that it's high time we stopped speaking of life in laboratories; but science never mentions the flesh, which, quite rightly, signifies the conflation, here and now, in a specific site of the body, of muscles and blood, skin and hair, bones, nerves and diverse functions, that inextricably binds that which pertinent knowledge analyzes."
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"Now already for a while many spectators will have left the auditorium, tired out by ineffectual theatrical effects, irritated at the turn from comedy to tragedy, having come to laugh and deceived at having been made to think; there will be some even--knowledgable specialists no doubt--who will have understood on their own terms, that each portion of their knowledge resembles the coat of the Harlequin, since each one works at the intersection of many other sciences and at the interference point of almost all of them. Thus their academy--its encyclopedic institution--formally rejoins the comedy of art."
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