Dear all,
Please see the invitation to an informal conversation on Wednesday the 10th at 8 pm. We are making this safe and supportive virtual space available to everyone at the school for conversation and reflection on current events.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82324537197?pwd=OUNlTk9iUWVGc3hVTWtnK3djbG1Vdz09
Meeting ID: 823 2453 7197
Password: empathy
“By its very efficiency, the high-rise took over the task of maintaining the social structure that supported them all. For the first time it removed the need to repress every kind of anti-social behaviour, and left them free to explore any deviant or wayward impulses. It was precisely in these areas that the most important and most interesting aspects of their lives would take place. Secure within the shell of the high-rise like passengers on board an automatically piloted air-liner, they were free to behave in any way they wished, explore the darkest corners they could find. In many ways, the high-rise was a model of all that technology had done to make possible the expression of a truly ‘free’ psychopathology.” (p. 43)
-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise (1975)
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