“The Nude Man’s City”: Flávio de Carvalho’s Anthropophagic Architecture as Cultural Criticism
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Abstract Cannibalism is one of the most recognisable taboos West and a benchmark with which supposedly civilised world has traditionally sought to differentiate itself from radically “other” hinterlands. As such, cannibalism made its way both into vocabulary West’s pseudo-ethnographic self-reflection (e.g. Freud) imaginary literary culture Grimm). A less-well-known strain in this narrative uses as critical postcolonial metaphor. In 1928, Brazilian poet agitator Oswald de Andrade published short text entitled “Anthropophagic Manifesto.” The aim manifesto was distance an emerging modernism European ideals that São Paulo bourgeoisie uncritically embraced, synthesise more avant-garde ideas aspects cultures indigenous Amazonian peoples truly national cultural movement. This essay draws on various anthropophagic movement seeks understand, whether (and how) it influenced urban planning architecture, especially if detectable ways architects Lúcio Costa Oscar Niemeyer designed executed legal political institutions Brasília, country’s iconic federal capital. ana-lysis, however, identifies colonialist inclination Niemeyer’s ideological debt Le Corbusier. Instead, radical potential architecture developed reference less-known architect polymath Flávio Carvalho whose aesthetic politics provide parallels contemporary politics, well. suggests such notion would be akin anti-instrumentalism I have elsewhere, following Georges Bataille Maurice Blanchot, called “politics impossible.”
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عنوان ژورنال: Polemos
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['2238-7692']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/pol-2021-2008