“Apocalypse thus
constitutes the reverse of modern planning, whose goal is also to erase the
traces of the past (at best, preserving them in museums and tourist
attractions, thereby highlighting their out-of-placeness in everyday practice)
and to extend the present indefinitely into the future as the persistent
acceleration of ‘growth’ as a permanent state beyond any material limits.
Apocalyptic Mexico
City is a city that is out of time, beyond redemption, but it is also an
unfamiliar or even unrecognizable city for people who have lived or spent time
there. When compared with the lived experience of the real city, the dystopian
novelistic film sets come across like Hollywood mockups, the flat shadow of
lived reality. Despite all its problems, the real Mexico City is actually a
quite livable and vibrant metropolis, if perhaps not by the standards or
aesthetic predilections of some well-traveled members of the global elite.”
—Marc Anderson,
“The Grounds of Crisis and Geopolitics of Depth: Mexico City in the
Anthropocene,” Ecological Crisis and Cultural Representation in Latin America.
(2016)
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