2024-06-02T09:00:15-04:00 https://archinect.com/features/article/150060434/cross-talk-5-mediated-discourse-by-ryan-tyler-martinez martinezrt 2018-04-19T09:00:00-04:00 >2018-08-18T13:01:04-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/ht/htd25xryqyhmyj8m.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>The role of Archinect&rsquo;s 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>