Yucatan
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Yucatan is a recurring place in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between August 25, 2023 and December 04, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “MERIDA, YUCATAN, MEXICO”; “I might as well have been talking about numerology in the Yucatan”. It most often appears alongside Berlin, Chicago, France.
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- Category: Places
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: August 25, 2023
- Last seen: December 04, 2024
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- Berlin (2 shared issues)
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- Chicago (2 shared issues)
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- France (2 shared issues)
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- Germany (2 shared issues)
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- Michigan (2 shared issues)
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- New Orleans (2 shared issues)
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- New York (2 shared issues)
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- Russia (2 shared issues)
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- Vienna (2 shared issues)
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- “El Retiro” Park (1 shared issues)
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- 11841 Wagner Street Culver City (1 shared issues)
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- 1548 NE 15th Ave (1 shared issues)
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MERIDA, YUCATAN, MEXICO Contact: Silvia Contact Info: silviafidelina[at]hotmail[dot]com Time: Thursday, October 21st, 10:00 AM Location: Centro de Estudios e Investigaciones Sociales y Culturales "Efraín Calderón Lara", calle 38 453 Jesús Carranza, 97109, Mérida, Yucatán, México. Coordinates: https://plus.codes/76GGX9JV+V6C Group Link: https://www.facebook.com/groups/lesswrongmerida/ Notes: Please RSVP on LessWrong so I know how much food to get. The languages of the meeting will be Spanish (preferred) and English (rescue tool).
In 1970, Lapidus’ work was selected as the subject of an Architectural League of New York show and panel discussion entitled “Morris Lapidus: Architecture Of Joy”. Ordinarily this was an honor. In Lapidus’ case it was hard to say what it was. I was asked to be on the panel - probably, as I look back on it, with the hope that I might offer a “pop” perspective (This word, “pop”, had already come to be one of the curses of my life). The evening took on an uneasy, rather camp atmosphere - uneasy, because Lapidus himself had turned up in the audience. His work was being regarded not so much as architecture as a pop phenomenon, like Dick Tracy or the Busby Berkeley movies. I kept trying to put in my two cents’ worth about the general question of portraying American power, wealth, and exuberance in architectural form. I might as well have been talking about numerology in the Yucatan. The initial camp rush had passed, and the assembled architects began to give Lapidus’ work a predictable going-over. At the end, Lapidus himself stood up and said that the Soviets had once asked him to come to Russia and design some public housing and that they had been highly pleased with the results. Then he sat down. Nobody could quite figure it out, unless he was making a desperate claim of redeeming social significance . . . that might make him less radioactive.