Disruptions in Democratic Totalities

The prioritization of traffic and speed in society has transcended to the corporal; to the displacement of the body from its primary medium of urban exchange, public space. The data produced from the observation of homeless presence in relation to commuters in Penn Station New York illustrates this contemporary condition. Within this heterotopia itself the figure of the homeless is the reminder of a democracy that is fabricated and sense of utopia that is false; a system based on its linear logic unable to handle exceptions and disturbances. The commuter here proceeds aware/unaware of the disturbance, a desensitization produced by noise filters of the social, spatial and time diasporas for the sake of normalcy and stability. The scar here only occurs in the diagram and psyche, its materiality vanishes from the architectural surface leaving no residue.