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Timeworn Stocks Stock Issue Editors Designer Nicholas Miller We often confuse stocks with I remember walking But what else can architec- I remember going back Paprika! vol. 3 no. 0, August 31, 2017 Amanda Iglesias and Julie Turgeon Jo Kim M.Arch I, '19 the pillory. The pillory secure beneath arches between the ture do but offer ambiguous to the villa we stayed in that the neck and wrists, while piazza and museum. A profes- objects? We create objects evening and having difficulty stocks are for the ankles. Both sional torturer’s reputation born of power—a power sleeping, troubled by what I originated in the 5th century often depended on what rooted in violence. The memo- had not seen. I later composed In stock. Out of stock. Take stock, trade stock. What is stock? On one hand: a tan- and were located in public so ingenious methods he had ries of all who encounter them the pages in our photo album gible, commonplace commodity (“The peanut butter is out of stock”). Yet simul- the condemned were exposed invented and on how com- cling to our objects like burs. that document this day. The taneously, a nebulous, highly potent economic system (“Billions lost as stocks to constant humiliation—an plete his stock of complicated While we can recast our ob- desire to impose our criteria crash”). Some stock is mutable—able to be inventoried and liable to change indication that these devices instruments was—regardless jects as cautionary memorials, without respecting the free- (“We have five size four jeans in backstock”). Other stock is factual, perhaps were not used to punish, but of whether these devices they attract the burs of their dom of others is not a behav- inescapable (“She comes from hearty German stock”). Further yet, other stock is to teach.1 In ancient Rome or served any useful purpose.3 reflections. We know not when ior delimited to a certain era.7 actually capable of escape (“Livestock”). The word “stock” is itself highly tem- early medieval France (the Memorable devices and these burs will be cast to the A photo of me on the steps of peramental: its meaning is a condition of syntax. Putting stock in someone is not precise origins are unclear), instruments included pyra- ground, nor what fruits the the fountain, my grandparents equivalent to putting someone in the stocks. a victim’s ankles were placed mids on which victims were seeds will bear. Memorials are on the same steps, a brochure into stocks and his feet made to sit, thumb screws, meant to temper the growth from the museum, a ticket Paprika! is taking stock, in all of its strange and lively connotations. Who are we, covered in a solution of salt skull crushers, an iron maiden, of violence through the prac- stub, and four postcards. The as students of the Yale School of Architecture, and what are we about? What is and water. Goats were then hanging cages, chastity belts, tice of memory, but they can spiked interrogation chair, our métier, our mode of creating, shaping, and exchanging value? Paprika! posits brought forth to lick off the spiked chairs, various collars, also attract burs with violence dramatically lit against a these findings as a means to promote conversation, pique interest, and spark a solution. The sensation began the pear of anguish, and a as their seed. The form that stone wall; the executioner’s few heated debates. Welcome to a new semester, YSoA. Start stocking up. as a tickle, but the goats’ solitary confinement pit that our objects are given before mask—pointed head, pointed coarse tongues eventually was entered from above and they are heaved into fields nose, horizontal slits for eyes rubbed the skin and flesh from only large enough to stand of time may determine the and mouth—sitting atop pink the victim’s feet. Other reports in. Some of these artifacts nature of the burs they attract velvet; a hanging cage within say the feet were coated in displayed a high degree of and the form they accumulate, the museum, a skeleton stand- honey and licked until the craftsmanship. Who designed slowly by association. Are we, ing inside; and the Iron Maid- victim reached insanity. them? They are modern as architects, designers of en of Nuremberg, or a replica On March 20th, 2001, when inventions. They were not artifacts, and reckless custo- of said piece, because the I was ten years old, I visited used for torture—the very dians of memory, responsible original was destroyed during the Museo della Tortura in San construction of these devices for that which may be born Allied bombing of Nuremberg Gimignano. The purpose of belies any torturous function. from the burs that cling to our in 1944. The Iron Maiden the museum is to practice our They appear infernal, but creations? appears in no historical memory.2 I look younger in any consideration of them as Architecture and the foun- document published before the photos than I remember. instruments of torture reduc- dations of our culture operate the 1790s. It was at this time “Exhausted by his first day in es their utility.4 through collective memories that a history was created. Florence,” my mother later Despite having been grant- that are not remembered wrote in our photo album, ed permission to carefully uniformly. Our inability to “Nick slept in then had a pizza study the museum, my par- overcome ignorance of these 7 breakfast on the square in San ents forbade me from visiting fallible memories leaves our Web. 16 Aug 2017. 16 Web. Mankind,” Museo Museo Mankind,” della Tortura e e della Tortura di Morte. della Pena “The Worst Side of Side Worst “The Gimignano.” It was the Piazza the final exhibit, which was objects vulnerable to serve - della Cisterna. I recall sitting housed in a small structure as evidence for the narra- on the steps that surround across a courtyard behind the tives of nefarious agendas. the piazza’s eponymous well, main building. I have since I worry, about the impact of but that was after the torture wondered what was in there, unaddressed questions once 6 museum, and I was eating and believe it illustrated some brought to consciousness.6 Kyle Dugdale, “Re: Kyle Dugdale, Aug 2017. 14 Email. to Nicholas Miller. Nicholas Miller. to re: Quick Turn re: around.” Message Message around.” gelato. She said that I begged sort of human vivisection. Architecture is a dangerously her to go to the torture muse- Perhaps I caught a glimpse ambiguous vehicle that um. How did I find out about of something. Through this carries the underlying myths (8 May (Lake (Lake it? Even at a young age, I had journey into machines used to of society. From instruments a strong interest in these sorts cause death, public mockery, of torture to monuments 5 3 4 of things. and pain, the exhibit shows of subjugation, artifacts International Studies Daniel Mannix, Daniel Mannix, 83. 2014), Inc, Press Dark Medievalism,” Human Cruelty,” della Museo Web. di Morte. Pena Oswego, OR: eNet Oswego, “The Chris Bishop, 2014), 11. 2014), The The History of Torture 16 Aug 2017. 16 Journal of Cultural Truth, Torture and Torture Truth, della e Tortura ‘Pear of Anguish’: of ‘Pear Anguish’: “A Journey Through Journey Through “A horrors that our conscience imbued with chronicles of has repressed but that have violence support deceptive been part of human co- histories that shape and are Big Book existence for centuries. Men shaped by the myths of our applied as much creativity collective memories. Histories 2 1 into finding new ways to inflict of violence are sustained and & Punishment Web. 16 Aug 2017. 16 Web. of Pain: Torture of Pain: Torture Mark P. Donnelly Mark P. Human Cruelty,” della Museo Pena di Morte. A Journey Through A Journey Through and Daniel Diehl, and Daniel Diehl, 2011). (The History Press, History Press, (The Through History Through Tortura e della e Tortura “Stocks,” “Stocks,” pain as into arts and culture.5 constructed by the artifacts If military technologies and that they inhabit. strategies birthed the disci- pline of architecture, what did the crafts and sciences of torture bring forth? Stock: The Kind with Chickens On The Ground Alexander Benjamin In restaurants the world over, This is because stock is So maybe go out and buy OTG welcomes YSoA’s incom- Home is: Architecture in a tweet: Why YSoA? Read this summer: Alex is a data scientist. On when first light is breaking a base, a primer on which a bigger pot. Purchase some ing students. In the spirit of • Maryland • Seth Thompson (M.Arch I): • Michelle Badr (M.Arch I): YSoA • JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure 4 / the weekends he makes into the windows and as the other flavors will be built to bones or carcasses at a feeding the school’s collective • Sri Lanka “Architecture is not only about values multiple perspectives • The Classical Language of stock. first burner ignites on the make a meal. As such, stock butcher—most will happily curiosity, we’ve solicited a few • Henderson, Nevada domesticating space, it is also pushing boundaries together, Architecture stove, stock begins. reverberates, sending little sell you their scrap at prices introductions. • Beijing a deep defense against the rather than one language • Jarry Mag It could be a succulent ripples of delight throughout far less than that can of Swan- 8 • Berkeley terror of time. The language being pushed on all perspec- • The Underground Railroad by tonkatsu in Japan, filled with every subsequent dish. If you son’s. Get some carrots and Unqualified and Seth Lau Katie 12 Thompson, • Minneapolis of beauty is essentially the tives.