流泥 Concrete Flux #03
逃逸主義 Escapism

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梦醒之后，他们计划出发去找寻那座城市；他们从未找到，但是他们找到了彼此；他们决定建造一座如梦想中一般的城市。

– 伊塔洛·卡尔维诺,《看不见的城市》

 

做这一期杂志的动力来源于一次在城市里的谈话——在城市特有的持续不断的刺耳噪音中，我们发现能够与彼此分享一刻想象中的宁静，而这幻想出的宁静，使漂浮不定的思绪凝结成随口说出的词句。

After the dream they set out in search of that city; they never found it, but they found one another; they decided to build a city like the one in the dream.

– Italo CALVINO, Invisible Cities

The impetus for the “Escapism” issue was born out one of those conversations that take place in the city–during one of those moments where amidst the constant cacophony of the city, we find an other with whom we can share a moment of imagined quiet, and in the imagined quiet, allow errant thoughts to be formed into words and carelessly uttered.

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《流泥》是一個以中國超速發展的城市空間為主線的多媒體、跨學科電子刊物，旨在討論城市化運動的意義與該語境下個體的日常經驗。我們相信由城市化引 導的空間構建勢必走向一種社會重組。我們希望能夠找到理解這些空間的方法與思路，儘管它們的繁殖速度看上去遠遠超過了我們思想與身體的消化上限。

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.