流泥 Concrete Flux #01
北京 Beijing

Description

马可·波罗曾经写道“北京——不论你怎么描述它，总是词不达意尽管如此，他还是对十四世纪的北京进行了一个丰富且精致的描述。”《流泥》同样认为当代都市化的中国依然不能完整描述。通过混杂这一角度观察中国，就能得到新的视野，而不限于表面上的“剧烈差距”——贫富、古今、城、乡、老和少，等等。这一新角度展示的城市中，各种过程在不断发生：会见、妥协、变化、新生等等。这期《流泥》中的一些文章证明，这一视角可能令人不安，令人迷惑，甚至充满矛盾（但后世的人可能将此视为常识或共识）。

Marco Polo once wrote of Beijing that “it is impossible to give a description that should do it justice.” And yet, Marco Polo did provide a rich description of 13th century Beijing. Concrete Flux believes that the urban China of the present day is still impossible to explain and to fully understand.

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《流泥》是一个以中国超速发展的城市空间为主线的多媒体、跨学科电子刊物，旨在讨论城市化运动的意义与该语境下个体的日常经验。我们相信由城市化引导的空间构建势必走向一种社会重组。我们希望能够找到理解这些空间的方法与思路，尽管它们的繁殖速度看上去远远超过了我们思想与身体的消化上限。

Concrete Flux is a multi-disciplinary journal which takes as its subject matter China’s hyper-fast emerging urban spaces, their meaning and one’s everyday experiences of them. We believe that a new configuration of space through urbanisation will lead to a new configuration of society. Our aim, then, is to contribute to some understanding of or gain insight into what these spaces, which seem to emerge faster than our minds can log and assess, may mean.