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- The Promise of the Flat Field: A Reflection on Non-productive Expenditure
The Promise of the Flat Field:
A Reflection on Non-productive Expenditure
- Abstract
- Making an architectural drawing takes time, which, due to the dense relation between communication and the duration spent and wages paid, can usually be considered highly productive – time well spent. This essay takes as its subject a drawing by Victorian architect George Aitchison, a highly-worked but simple room elevation, to investigate where the limits of profitable productiveness might lie, and to consider why these limits might be transgressed. Using Georges Bataille’s concepts of unproductive expenditure and inner experience alongside reflection on Pierre Huyghe’s evoking of Freed Time, the discussion considers alternative purposes for the time spent in the production and contemplation of architectural drawings.
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- Citation
- Thomas, H. (2020). The Promise of the Flat Field:. A Reflection on Non-productive Expenditure. Practices of Drawing, OASE, (105), 124–132. Retrieved from https://www.oasejournal.nl/en/Issues/105/ThePromiseoftheFlatField
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