Archive for January, 2004
Remembrance of Things Past
Saturday, January 10th, 2004Seguimos leyendo Neuromancer
Saturday, January 10th, 2004
Straylight reminded Case of deserted early morning shopping centers he’d known as a teenager, low-density places where the small hours brought a fitful stillness, a kind of numb expectancy, a tension that left you watching insects swarm around caged bulbs above the entrance of darkened shops. Fringe places, just past the borders of the Sprawl, too far from the all-night click and shudder of the hot core. [200] There was that same sense of being surrounded by the sleeping inhabitants of a waking world he had no interest in visiting or knowing, of dull business temporalily suspended, of futility and repetition soon to wake again.
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Manuel Bandeira en Babelia, u otra cosa m
Saturday, January 10th, 2004Posters para adultos
Friday, January 9th, 2004
For the Record
Friday, January 9th, 2004What Catholicism is about
Thursday, January 8th, 2004M
Thursday, January 8th, 2004
A sheep that shits grass
Thursday, January 8th, 2004Y cito a Cory Doctorow:
The thing that defines peer-to-peer, I think, is the degree to which the power of the technology depends on Metcalfe’s Law. In the end, a word processing program is only a word processing program whether you’re the only user or the millionth user; its utility doesn’t change. Napster is not Napster if you’re the only user. Napster is nothing more than a folder full of MP3s if you’re the only user. Napster doesn’t tell you to share your files, but the system is arranged so that the files you have plundered are available for others to plunder during the time you have the software running so that you can plunder more files. The problem is congestion; the more users you have, the [80] harder your network is to connect to. What a peer-to-peer network can do is provide a commons where the sheep shit grass, where every user provisions the resource he consumes.
Citado en Rheingold, Howard. Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution. NY: Perseus, 2002. pp. 79-80.
No estamos muy seguros (tenemos que leer m
Pacto entre caballeros
Thursday, January 8th, 2004Cuenta David Bravo, no s
The Luminous Uncanny
Thursday, January 8th, 2004
Esperantis by Patrick Shanahan is a seductive and unsettling insight into the nocturnal face of the modern urban environment. Taken in both Spain and Portugal between 1998 and 2001 as part of his doctoral thesis on ‘theorising the post-landscape’, these exquisite photographs explore imaginatively the notion of spatial estrangement – the material and psychological impact of the processes involved in the formation of the contemporary urban landscape.
For urban designers and engineers, modern lighting technologies offer ways to invest the urban landscape with new cultural meanings through the editing and highlighting of physical spaces. They can transform an already spectacular scene into a yet more powerful nocturnal one, one that is coloured, edited, more hyperreal and illusory. Shanahan’s photographs utilise a combination of the effects of ambient artificial lighting with the ‘reciprocity failure’ of colour photographic film – the colour shifts that occur in exposures exceeding one second – to produce even more unusual settings, ones imbued with a ‘strangeness’ symbolic of the Freudian uncanny sensation.
As the distinctions between reality and imagination blur, our feelings of anxiety and uncertainty about the contemporary world increase the more detached and isolated from our urban environments we become. In what Shanahan refers to as the ‘Luminous Uncanny’, the selective lighting of particular areas against an abstracted void causes the landscape to dematerialise into a mirage of light and shadow, infusing it with a mystery that both attracts and disturbs us.
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