Recently and elsewhere
Subtopia: Urbanization of Panic
>>On Franco Berardi’s City of Panic and “panic as a volatile urban harmony.”New Network Theory
>>An upcoming event in Amsterdam: “It is time to look for elements that can make up a network theory outside of post-modern cultural studies (which marvelled at the place-less place) and ethnographic social sciences (which reminded us of the ground).”BLDGBLOG: Tokyo Revelation
>>On photographer Hisaharu Motoda’s Neo-Ruins series depicting “a post-apocalyptic Tokyo.”Art For A Change: Design for the Other 90 %
>>Review of a Cooper-Hewitt exhibition that “stinks of privilege and imperial arrogance.”Proceedings of the Athanasius Kircher Society: Whitwell’s Rational Geographical Nomenclature and Mundaneum, the Index Card Internet and Thomas Sandberg’s Cabinet of Scientific Curiosities
>>On ways of ordering the universe and everything in it.Postopolis!
>>An upcoming “five-day event of near-continuous conversation about architecture, urbanism, landscape, and design” in New York City