2024-12-22T02:22:58-05:00 https://archinect.com/features/article/150072287/cross-talk-6-east-vs-west-introduction Anthony George Morey 2018-07-09T09:00:00-04:00 >2018-07-08T20:40:50-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/c3/c3596f7f8dd8f0d7a57075a9439cf8f7.gif" border="0" /><p>The role of Archinect&rsquo;s new series&nbsp;<strong><a href="https://archinect.com/features/tag/944588/cross-talk" target="_blank">Cross-Talk</a></strong>&nbsp;is to bring forward the positive aspects of the polemic and allow for the resulting conflict to bring to life an otherwise still and comfortable climate of creativity&mdash;if there can be one.&nbsp;<strong>Cross-Talk</strong>&nbsp;attempts&mdash;if to only say that it did&mdash;to allow text the freedom that the image has accepted and embraced.&nbsp;<strong>Cross-Talk</strong>&nbsp;attempts to force the&nbsp;<em>no</em>, to contradict itself, to anger, to please and then anger again, if only to force a stance, to pull out the position of the&nbsp;<em>self</em>, of the discipline and of the hour as a means to begin and maintain conversations moving forward.&nbsp;</p>