Ê Notes
Slide Show
Outline
1
Breadcrumbs and Footprints
  • November 26, 2002
2
YOU ARE HERE *
  • Buildings have ãprogramsä: they instruct a visitor in their use, they command, overawe or invite
3
Ê
4
Ê
5
Ê
6
Ê
7
Crowd scenes
  • The city is a landscape, but inhabitants and visitors reorganize it into their own personal ãpathsä
  • Planned and unplanned uses


8
Ê
9
Ê
10
Ê
11
See the page you made
  • De Certeauâs dialectic of city and wanderer: making free use of the given environment
  • Internet journalism: ãnarrowcasting,ä ãpull technologyä
  • Choices ãpersonalizeä your cyberspace
  • The ãpathä sticks to your shoesoles: cookies, logs
12
You are what you buy
  • Amazon.com sociology: ãyouä are a set of preferences that sooner or later fall into a, identifiable pattern or mean (ãtasteä)
  • A model of human behavior; your very own Sim representing yourself
  • Sarcasm? Realism? Is there no hope? (Hope for what?)
13
Ê
14
Fight simulation with simulation?
  • ãOn the Internet, nobody knows youâre a dogä (New Yorker cartoon, circa 1995)
  • ãTotal Information Awarenessä
  • ãDigital DNAä
  • ãSneak-and-peekä
  • Does irony work? ãNo cookiesä?
15
Pipes and walls
  • How does the creation of personal spaces correlate with the potential for control?
  • Cyberspace is a made space, totally social; but not all made spaces are free
  • The lesson of architecture