The Condition of Postmodernity 13 - autonomous learning
The Condition of Postmodernity 13 - autonomous learning The Condition of Postmodernity 13 - autonomous learning
78 The passage from modernity to postmodernityPostmodernism in the city 79Plate 1.15 The signs of rehabilitation and gentrification often assume almostexactly the same serial monotony as the modernism they were supposed toreplace: rehabilitation in Baltimore is everywhere signalled by the standardcoach lamp hanging outside the house.deliberately to conceal, through the realms of culture and taste, thereal basis of economic distinctions. Since 'the most successful ideologicaleffects are those which have no words, and ask no more thancomplicitous silence,' the production of symbolic capital serves ideologicalfunctions because the mechanisms through which it contributesPlate 1.16 Baltimore's Gallery at Harbor Place is typical of the innumerableinterior shopping malls that have been constructed since around 1970.'to the reproduction of the established order and the perpetuation ofdomination remain hidden.'It is instructive to put Krier's search for symbolic richness in thecontext of Bourdieu's theses. The search to communicate social distinctionsthrough the acquisition of all manner of symbols of statushas long been a central facet of urban life. Simmel produced somebrilliant analyses of this phenomenon at the turn of the century, anda whole series of researchers (such as Firey in 1945 and Jager in
80 The passage from modernity to postmodernityPlate 1.17 This atrium in the IBM building on Madison Avenue, New York,attempts a garden atmosphere within a secure space sealed off from adangerous, heavily built-up and polluted city outside.1986) have returned again and again to consideration of it. But Ithink it is fair to say that the modernist push, partly for practical,technical, and economic, but also for ideological reasons, did go outof its way to repress the significance of symbolic capital in urban life.The inconsistency of such a forced democratization and egalitarianismof taste with the social distinctions typical of what, after all, remaineda class-bound capitalist society, undoubtedly created a climate ofrepressed demand if not repressed desire (some of which was expressedin the cultural movements of the 1960s). This repressed desire pro-
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78 <strong>The</strong> passage from modernity to postmodernityPostmodernism in the city 79Plate 1.15 <strong>The</strong> signs <strong>of</strong> rehabilitation and gentrification <strong>of</strong>ten assume almostexactly the same serial monotony as the modernism they were supposed toreplace: rehabilitation in Baltimore is everywhere signalled by the standardcoach lamp hanging outside the house.deliberately to conceal, through the realms <strong>of</strong> culture and taste, thereal basis <strong>of</strong> economic distinctions. Since 'the most successful ideologicaleffects are those which have no words, and ask no more thancomplicitous silence,' the production <strong>of</strong> symbolic capital serves ideologicalfunctions because the mechanisms through which it contributesPlate 1.16 Baltimore's Gallery at Harbor Place is typical <strong>of</strong> the innumerableinterior shopping malls that have been constructed since around 1970.'to the reproduction <strong>of</strong> the established order and the perpetuation <strong>of</strong>domination remain hidden.'It is instructive to put Krier's search for symbolic richness in thecontext <strong>of</strong> Bourdieu's theses. <strong>The</strong> search to communicate social distinctionsthrough the acquisition <strong>of</strong> all manner <strong>of</strong> symbols <strong>of</strong> statushas long been a central facet <strong>of</strong> urban life. Simmel produced somebrilliant analyses <strong>of</strong> this phenomenon at the turn <strong>of</strong> the century, anda whole series <strong>of</strong> researchers (such as Firey in 1945 and Jager in
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