Peter Adamson
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first heard Jun 2026
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Right, who's well known for embracing this idea of an organic neighborhood.
And there's a whole trajectory of thinking about this that has to do with basically not trying to keep such a tight grip on the future that it will strangle, which is the way that these garden fingers would understand the other side of the and of the machine fingers.
But to I suppose allow the future to flourish on its own terms, but under the sort of
beneficial, watchful out of human guidance.
Yeah, okay.
That's and uh funny kind of interaction with games I covered on the podcast not so long ago because I had that episode on the French garden and that conception of the garden sounds more like the English garden.
Right.
So you're tending it but it's supposed to look kinda wild and yeah like it nature expressing itself, whereas the French garden is damping control and mathematics on nature.
like an architectural plan that's just been unfurled on the landscape and it's just being planted at Correy, so it's totally centralized controlled.
As you said in the podcast, the most famous example is at Versailles, and it's literally organized around the view of the cane.
So it's simply for his
not gratification so much as confirmation of his power.
It presents itself as the materialization o of his
Omnipotence.
Whereas an English garden, as you say, is allowed to
sort of go its own way, this idea of the picturesque that it presents itself to you in this kind of aesthetic, attractive way.
And I think that's also a really important way for me as an art historian to think about the future is what does the future look like?
So
You know, the n Norman Bogetti's version with the big white streamlined building is very sci fi, I suppose you could say.
This is also when sci fi starts, by the way, in the nineteen thirties.
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