Zoroaster Tower of Babel
Media Matters
New Orleans Under Reconstruction: The Crisis of Planning
Appleseed. dir. Shinji Aramaki (2004) Nausicaä, dir. Miyazaki (1984) Akira, dir. Katsuhiro Otomo (1988) Sky Blue, dir. Moon-saeng Kim (2005)
The Post-apocalyptic Trope In Anime
Akira, dir. Katsuhiro Otomo (1988) Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina (2005)
QUESTIONS OF HUMAN AGENCY IN AFTERMATH
Akira
“Can our imaginations of apocalypse actually forestall it? Even the slimmest of possibilities is enough to justify the nightmare.”
Lawrence Buell
Opening Scene in Nausicaä Opening Scene in Akira
Minority/Youth Protagonists as New Authority for A Different Future
Examples of Community Participation-Agency Post-Katrina
SKY BLUE NAUSICAA APPLESEED
Ghost in the Shell
katrina: reality trumps fiction as indictment of impotent authority, man’s control of nature and societal divisions.
The photo is of evacuated prisoners held at gun point on overpass.
Ghost in the ShellDoes the Master Plan for New Orleans address both the city’s crisis of Space, and it’s crisis of Time?
http://www.nolamasterplan.org/
New Orleans’s Temporal Exceptionalism
New Orleans’s Temporal Exceptionalism
Ghost in the Shell
A CITY OF BEING versus A CITY OF BECOMINGESSENTIAL (PLATO ARISTOTLE SOCRATES) vs PROCESS (BERGSON DEWEY NIETZCHE)
PERMANENT : PROVISIONAL FIXED : DYNAMIC TIMELESS : TRANSFORMATIONAL
THE NEW NORMAL vs A FRONTIER TOWN
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, dir. David Fincher (2008)
Home, dir. Matt Faust (2008)
Scala Naturae
EMBRACING THE DIACHRONIC TYPICAL FOR POST-INDUSTRIAL CITIES
From D. Harvey(1989)
New Orleans as Node in Global Network
‘glocal’i the Shell
national synchronic connection
After Katrina: Rebuilding Of St. Bernard Parish, Dir. A. Finberg 2006
Controversy of Refugee vs Evacuee, NPR 2005
Nausicaä
http://www.nolamasterplan.org/
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Database Structure to Compliment City’s Official Historic Narrative
PROSPECT.1 New Orleans
Past (historic district) Present (population) Future (the next flood)
http://www.nolamasterplan.org/
Ghost in the Shell
“…large urban works are bimoral: they are inherently good and bad, simultaneously…. and instead reverberate within good and bad…”
Dana Cuff, The Provisional City (MIT: 2000)
New Orleans Next Time Bomb Los Angeles Next Time Bomb