Paris: Invisible City

I’ve finally had a chance to take a look at Bruno Latour’s new virtual book - Paris: Invisible City - a Flash-based “sociological web opera.”

I especially enjoyed the section on proportioning or scale which - vaguely reminiscent of the Eames’ work on Powers of Ten, zooming from fingers tapping on keyboards to the immensity of the universe - raises questions of (in)commensurability, and proclaims that Paris is neither big nor small…

It’s definitely worth a look, or several :)

(And finally, despite the unfortunate use of the colour yellow, I really wish more academic works were expressed like this.)

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