{"id":2754,"date":"2020-05-20T22:19:16","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T22:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/?p=2754"},"modified":"2020-05-20T22:19:16","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T22:19:16","slug":"the-parasite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/2020\/05\/20\/the-parasite\/","title":{"rendered":"The Parasite"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2755\" style=\"width: 1410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2755\" data-attachment-id=\"2755\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/2020\/05\/20\/the-parasite\/palast-3\/#main\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/cdn.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/06204348\/selection-1-74.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1400,935\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D750&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Palast, \\rDuisburg, March 2017&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1490446240&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0005&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Palast&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Palast\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Palast,&lt;br \/&gt;\nDuisburg, March 2017&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/cdn.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/06204348\/selection-1-74-300x200.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/cdn.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/06204348\/selection-1-74-1024x684.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2755\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/06204348\/selection-1-74.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"935\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/06204348\/selection-1-74.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/cdn.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/06204348\/selection-1-74-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/06204348\/selection-1-74-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/06204348\/selection-1-74-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/06204348\/selection-1-74-920x614.jpg 920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2755\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Palast,\u00a0Duisburg, March 2017<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>A City is a parasitic organism that dwells on people to make them build its streets and houses; if nobody is happy in the city, who builds them? And for what purpose? And how did we end up in this visual and aural onslaught of advertising? When did we become just the prey for the entertainment\/consumption-complex. Why are we complicit in building our own unhappiness?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Imre Kertesz<\/strong>: City as a stage<br \/>\n<strong>Atget<\/strong>: People have left the city, only their ghosts remain to haunt its buildings<br \/>\n<strong>Lewis Bush<\/strong>: City as the theatre of capital; The World is Ugly\/And People Are Sad<br \/>\n<strong>Moriyama<\/strong>: City as a libidinal arrangement? Compound? complex?<br \/>\n<strong>Nakahira<\/strong>: City as overflow; city as beyond interpretation (or before?)<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A City is a parasitic organism that dwells on people to make them build its streets and houses; if nobody is happy in the city, who builds them? And for what purpose? And how did we end up in this visual and aural onslaught of advertising? When did we become just the prey for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6L1xp-Iq","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2756,"href":"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2754\/revisions\/2756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}