Craft Unbound » necessity http://www.craftunbound.net Craft at large Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:15:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The salt hotel http://www.craftunbound.net/theme/necessity/the-salt-hotel http://www.craftunbound.net/theme/necessity/the-salt-hotel#comments Sun, 29 Jul 2007 10:31:00 +0000 admin http://www.craftunbound.net/wordpress/?p=55

This is an image of a hotel in south-west Bolivia made entirely of salt. The only inhabitants of this cold harsh region are salt miners. More here.

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“This is the circle of bourgeois nostalgia for naivety,” warned Theodor Adorno in Minima Moralia. “The soullessness of those in the margins of civilization, forbidden self-determination by daily need, at once appealing and tormenting, becomes a phantasm of soul to the well-provided-for, whom civilization has taught to be ashamed of the soul.”
It always seems healthy to take on these kinds of cruel observations, like a cold shower… bracing. But cynicism shouldn’t be the only response.
When you have everything you want, you can’t have need. Necessity is necessary.

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