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Server space

Monday, June 22, 2009

NY Times: Data Center Overload
“Much of the daily material of our lives is now dematerialized and outsourced to a far-flung, unseen network … But where is ‘there,’ and what does it look like? ‘There’ is nowadays likely to be increasingly large, powerful, energy-intensive, always-on and essentially out-of-sight data centers. These centers run enormously scaled software [...]

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Book Review: The Reinvention of Everyday Life: Culture in the twenty-first century

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

The Reinvention of Everyday Life: Culture in the twenty-first century. Edited by Howard McNaughton and Adam Lam (2006). Christchurch NZ: Canterbury University Press. 264 pp. ISBN 1-877257-48-6
Reviewed by Niamh Hennessy, York University
This is an interesting and provocative collection of stories, commentaries and reviews that offer a series of meditations on the transformations of everyday life [...]

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City Lost in Translation

Saturday, January 24, 2009

City as Backdrop:
-Lost in Tokyo (Lost in Translation) – a perfect example of alienation and anomie
-Another Tokyo (video clip) – estrangement goes mellow
City as Labyrinth:
-Credit animations in The Bourne Identity (Tribute animation  by befsztyk88pl)

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What should we do with GIS?

Saturday, January 24, 2009

How could one avoid being just a technical end-user and late-adopter of Geographical Information Systems – that’s geodata or spatial data in other lingo : Does anyone have truly theoretical and methodological innovations in areas such as GIS for visualization of local and of community issues, locative and mobile media applications, [...]

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Manhattan

Monday, January 12, 2009

Woody Allen’s homage to Manhattan and to the long tradition linking cinema to the city:
-Vertov’s 1927 Der Mann mit der Kamera (Man with a Movie Camera)
-Walter Ruttman’s 1927 Berlin, die Sinfonie der Groszstadt (often referred to in English as (Symphony for a City), and,
-Fritz Lang’s c.1926-27 Metropolis
-the first images of Los Angeles 2019 in Ridley [...]

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