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It’s as if one composes a puzzle, the connection among pieces is not visible but there is an internal connection through similar lines and intersections. A theory how it is formed and applied to political, economic and cultural spaces conveys meaning of things in their historical context, within the frames of the two major ideologies, capitalist and socialist. There are times when it seems that “the present is the place to be” however it’s at once a fact of experience and repetition. The central figure is an artist (maybe an architect from the movie) who constructs an architectural space (Zaha Hadid) or reconstructed mixed verbal spaces (William S. Burroughs) in order to break the system of control. Here also could be traced civil rights movements among them youth and women movements that continue their course, not only in the former Third World countries but also in Western countries. The bias exists against women, and the younger generation who “clearly felt no desire for action or achievement, power or change”, this may be true at any time though the young always find ways to create a culture of their own. Now they are constructing a virtual social-networking out of a classical social space that transcends its boundaries for creating parallel reality.

This is one way to create an alternative world. There are also questions about an art and the artist in the present political set-up; but do the artists need to change society in order to produce “a work” of art? Or is it our way of thinking that needs to be changed? “It was not just a question of producing new literature or philosophy, but of inventing a whole new way of writing (Martin Heidegger, Theodor Adorno, Jacques Derrida), to construct a new type of human being who would not just refrain from violence and exploitation, but who would be physically and morally incapable of it”. This clearly was not a Faustian man and this is linked with the problems of our world, war, destruction, poverty, and with the responsibility of the individual. If art is considered not to be “good”, demonic powers could be summoned to transform reality. The city which is the outcome of repetition resembles Las Vegas, and the difference between them can be assessed in money. They are unlike the city of Venice “a space which is fashioned, shaped and invested by social activities” of its citizens.  

The crisis of economic, political and culture systems, ecological crisis, and the catastrophe which was felt long before: “a final period of decay of our Western world, the predicament is clear. We live on an overcrowded and pillaged planet, and we must stop the pillage or perish” (Bernanrd James, 1973), this remains the same and more disastrous. There is also the same space of culture in the sense of its abstract idea, in which we can construct our own spaces and theories.