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FAIRCLOUGH, Graham wrote: > Dear All or Any > > I would not claim to know all of what lies behind Cornelius's > comments, but the 'right' to read meaning into something (especially > in the form of words, tricky things that they are) passes almost > immediately away from the creator to the consumer, and one thing that > I take out of C's second point is a thought about 'our' response to > change and to future archaeologies (the creation and passing on of the > legibility of a future past). Is it possible to remove something from > a site's 'narrative', official or not, once it has been put there (eg > by recording)? Physical material survival is not the same as survival > within a narrative (ask any religion, especially at this time of > year). How do you preserve ephemerality? > Ive been thinking quite a bit about ephemerality recently, especially along the lines of the marx/engels/berman quote "all that is solid melts into air" - Having done a study of our local out of town shopping centre for the first CHAT Ive been following its quite rapid evolution, as many of the features I talked about have already been destroyed. The point being that many modern structures, even quite substantial ones, dont seem to last very long. I suspect that such places as Trostre park dont have much of a narrative per see because no one takes them seriously as places in the first place. Unlike town centres which do get invested with a depth of cultural pattina, shopping centres are more or less non-places to begin with and no one cares what happens to them p g-b