e185 | ba’nkë / bùnkër
Autore: Fernanda De Maio , Michela Maguolo , Alessandra Pedersoli , Maddalena Bassani , Maria Stella Bottai , Antonella Sbrilli , Daniela Ruggeri , Guido Morpurgo , Andrea Iorio , Christian Toson , Giacomo Calandra di Roccolino , Elisabetta Terragni , Livio Petriccione , Antonella Indrigo , Stefano Malosso
Numero di pagine: 337The present issue of “La Rivista di Engramma” originates from a group of seminars focused on the bunker, in its manifold meanings. The title “bḁ′ṅkë / bùṅkër” –phonetic transcription of the two main pronunciations of the term– summarizes this multiplicity: in the first, the meanings of container and refuge coexist, in the second, the images and history of the war artefact are concentrated. The polarity of the adjectives through which it is possible to describe it - offensive / defensive, evident/hidden, inverted / everted, hypogeum / epigeal, punctual/continuous, decontextualized / part of the context, uprooted / rhizomatic, intimidating / protective, threatening / safe, functional / symbolic, form / absence of form, materiality / virtuality - together with the impossibility of identifying precise characteristics - perhaps the building material alone is what unites the bunkers - leads to consider it as a fleeting, fluid concept. Having Paul Virilio and his Bunker archéologie as starting point (Michela Maguolo, Decriptare il bunker. La mostra “Bunker archéologie” di Paul Virilio; the Italian translation of a selection of passages from Bunker...