The Sixth Sense…
Tourists are like ghosts, fleeing from their daily lives, they walk among the local population like spectrums arrived from a parallel dimension, contributing to an increase of the stickiness in the environment.
Travel agencies and publicity agencies act as mediums, invoking these fleeting tenants. It seems to be a fashion…to spend our surplus acquiring new badges as prizes for every visited holiday destination.
And this is how I come to the conclusion:
To earn a euro is much more difficult than it may seem, because:
Who pays for the stress?
Barcelona, the Mediterranean capital, gives itself away for nothing.
Its inhabitants are subjected to a population density that doubles -or triples- in summer. Because tourists walk around so much that each one of them counts for -at least- three. They’re always in the middle of nowhere. But will I be able to make a spaceship out of my own city?
Algunos
dicen que Barcelona es un macho ƴa que la torre Acbar es el falo –
o miembro viril-. Pero bien mirado también podría ser una hembra; y
motivos para este cambio de paradigma no faltarían. Su propio nombre
nos lo sugiere... aunque la sexualidad, el genero y la anatomía de
los organismos inorgánicos organizados aun es un campo de
especulación pionero en las ciencias sociales.
Adoptando
un pequeño cambio de perspectiva, experimentamos un corrimiento del
zoom ƴ aumentando la escala la ciudad se nos desnuda. La ronda de
dalt y la ronda litoral, encintamente, podrían estar cumpliendo el
papel de limite de unos labios menores arropados por la costa y
Collserola. Candidatos al monte de Venus no faltarían, aunque
estarian afectados de ciertas irregularidades geométricas: Montjuic
o el Guinardo. En este caso el bunquer del Carmelo optaría a ser
galardonado con el titulo de clítoris, y la torre Acbar pasaría a
ser una simple desviacion sin importancia.
Post
Data: Algunos radicales afirman la androginia de la ciudad, e incluso
cierto amebismo hermafrodita de los extrarradios.
Some say that Barcelona has a male gender and the ACBAR tower is in itself the phallus/penis -or virile member. Looked at closely it could also be female and there wouldn't be lacking many reasons to consider this change of paradigm. Its own name suggests it to us… although the sexuality, genus-type and anatomy of organized inorganic organisms is still a pioneering field of speculation in the social sciences. Adopting a small change of perspective, experienceing a shift in a zoom-out and increasing the scale of the mapping: the city unveils. Ronda de Dalt (upper ring road) and Ronda Litoral (coastal ring road), pregnantly, could be shaping the limits of the labia minora wrapped by the seacoast and Collserola. Candidates for the mons veneris would not be lacking, although they would be affected by certain geometrical irregularities: Montjuic or the Guinardo. In this case the bunker(s) of Carmelo could opt to be awarded with the title of clitoris and the Acbar tower would remain as a simple sexual deviation without importance.
