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major turn of nonlinear history 28. In our ongoing architectural inter- regnum, this becomes an imperative task.
The paradox in the ship of Theseus’s narrative lies in the emerging question ‘would an object composed by more than one elements be the same, if gradually some or all of them were replaced?’. This ques- tion is nowadays pertinent more than ever before. As its answer is based upon the tolerance of the change or upon the belief of the continuity of the sameness, we can argue that both answers are as valid. Those who understand the new as an improved extension of the familiar will certainly answer positively. They would revisit exis- tent theories of modernity to elaborate their updated version. Those who understand the new as a recombination of existing elements would answer negatively. They would reject an essential part of the established thinking and replace it with new arguments, hypotheses, and speculations. The ‘meta’ has more than one faces. Parmenides and Epicurus are still amongst us, or rather they never deviated from the orbit of our interregnums.
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Architectural Interregnums
Constantin-Viktor Spiridonidis, Maria Vogiatzaki