Category Archives: mediated urbanism

The Temporary Autonomous Zone

Some great reflections from the Temporary Autonomous Zone.  This is from the section on the Psychotopology of Everyday Life.  The declaration that insurgency is open and revolution dead speaks to the existence of a territory void of potentiality.  The second … Continue reading

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Modernist Cartography

Jorge Luis Borges’ story "Of Exactitude in Science" tells the story of a King who orders a map made of his kingdom with a 1:1 ration.  The map is made to overlay the territory.  When you consider some digital cartography … Continue reading

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STREETS ARE SAYING THINGS™ :: THE ORIGINAL ONLINE GRAFFITI MUSEUM

Useful resource for all things graffiti.  This is an active site with images of street words and pics from all over. Link: STREETS ARE SAYING THINGS™ :: THE ORIGINAL ONLINE GRAFFITI MUSEUM.

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Locative Art on the Web

This website provides a nice list of relatively recent web-based locative art.  Some of the links don’t exactly work, but others do and that’s really what matters.  

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Virtuality and the Arcades

M. Christine Boyer, in her essay "Labyrinths of the Mind and City – Real and Virtual" makes the connection between the spaces of Walter Benjamin’s arcades and the spaces of virtual reality, claiming that each determines the outside through the … Continue reading

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CyberCities

M. Christine Boyer’s essay "The Imaginary Real World of CyberCities" in her collection CyberCities is a wonderful polemic against the threats of a thoughtless postmodernism.  While she claims that cities have experienced a shift form the mechanical city to the … Continue reading

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