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Monthly Archives: December 2007

City of ice

Friday, December 7, 2007

(via)
- Anne

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Individualist politics

Thursday, December 6, 2007

In 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 [...]

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Of eels and everyday life

Wednesday, December 5, 2007

If 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 [...]

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Adapt-a-market

Wednesday, December 5, 2007

(via Kevin Kelly’s Street Use)
- Anne

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Meanderthaling To and Fro

Saturday, December 1, 2007

Contemporary 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 [...]

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