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| | atoposes, poetic spaces, and modern ruins: surrealist urban exploration, industrial archaeology |
 | | In this respect, the urban exploration documented here takes on a surrealist dimension, in that the ruins, and the found and vandalized objects within these environments, are considered to be objects of desire, and objects of haunting. |
 | | These objects and poetic spaces are special because they influence all those who encounter them, and simultaneously, they are transformed by the subversive hands of those who find them in the solitude of social neglect, when no one is looking. |
 | | In this special light, the abandoned space represents a means of measuring the pulse of any culture, by comparing what people say and do in the solitude of ruins, with what they don't say or do in public, with all of the order and repression maintained within the latter. |
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