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Perhaps because strange phenomena tend to be interpreted according to broader contexts, one of the highlights of the day when cars started breaking down was the unusual amount of metal sheets spotted on the bank of one of the city’s southernmost canals.

When asked to point out what had brought them to an area of such difficult access, the crowd who had been taking pictures of every inch of concrete on the bank all morning explained that they had been brought there by a "smooth, echoing, repeated but irregular noise”, which could be heard from a considerable distance.

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Why should we be interested in the notion of ‘structure’? — Is one’s environment structured or constructed? — If there is a structure, is that structure functional or just useful? — (is it unuseful?) — How do living bodies respond when structures fail to be functional? — How may inanimate bodies, such as objects, point to an alternative notion of ‘structure’? (an alternative notion of ‘touching’) — May material exercises of utility-simulation (such as sculptures, installations, sound) present a critical point about actual, practical structures of utility? —

What can circuits and complex fictional structures tell us at a time where the capitalist notion of ‘usefulness’ is failing and asks to be restructured from an environmental (preferably non-human) perspective? — Do systematic structures resemble domestic space in any way? — Is a critique of functionality always informed by a notion of comfort? — Isn’t functionality itself determined by this notion? — May touch be reinvented through touching? —