City of ice
Friday, December 7th, 2007(via)
- Anne
Archive for December, 2007
Individualist politics
Thursday, December 6th, 2007In Hertzian Tales, Tony Dunne describes the work of Architekturbüro Bolles+Wilson as “less about the poetics of revealing the world as it is, and more about charging architectural space with psychological dimensions derived from acknowledging hertzian space.”
I suspect these words also aptly describe a lot of what passes as social interaction within pervasive computing and […]
Of eels and everyday life
Wednesday, December 5th, 2007If you’re looking for some holiday reading, here’s an intriguing description of Greg Day’s The Patron Saint of Eels:
The narrator, Noel, and the rest of the rural town of Mangowak, wake one morning after heavy rain to find the ditches around the roads of the town full of eels that had been caught up in […]
Adapt-a-market
Wednesday, December 5th, 2007
(via Kevin Kelly’s Street Use)
- Anne
Meanderthaling To and Fro
Saturday, December 1st, 2007Contemporary mobile technologies — cell-phones, Blackberries, etc. — are resulting, I’m sure, in an increase in inter-personal collisions (connections?). The human, it seems, has difficulty navigating inner and outer worlds at the same time. This state of techno-obliviousness results in a new type of subject (or quasi-agent?): the Meanderthal. Read more about this phenomenon at […]