Early modern methodologies of collage and montage acquired force through the collision of distinct orders and the generation of tension across seams of difference. Difference was encoded in forceful juxtaposition.
"Surrealism erodes modernism from within, registering an emergent awareness that the whole hygienic-panoptic project of modernism–its desire to remake the world on the basis for new technologies–contains within it the potential to go disastrously wrong.
"Through the very means of representation itself, Mies makes explicit the seams, gaps, and distractions of modern metropolitan life…disjunction exists not internal to the architecture itself, but between the architecture and its context. Mies has established complex and discontinuous relationships between a series of objects that are themselves fundamentally regular–even geometrically pure–and a city fabric characterized by impure mixtures of old and new.
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