Re: A miniature city waiting for attack (military urbanism)

2005-08-27 Thread Andrew Bucksbarg
slaughterhouses as cruel or unconscionable." -Wikipediia --- Andrew Bucksbarg Assistant Professor of Telecommunications [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organicode.net # distributed via : no commercial use without permission # is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering a

Re: A miniature city waiting for attack (military urbanism)

2005-09-04 Thread Andrew Bucksbarg
er =96 the emergency state." Quoted from an online version of The Center for Land Use Interpretation's Emergency State: First Responder and Law Enforcement Training and Architecture- http://www.clui.org/clui_4_1/ondisplay/emergency/index.html ...Andrew ... Andrew Bucksbarg As

Re: a new definition

2005-11-11 Thread Andrew Bucksbarg
Regarding the term "new media"- The practice of codifying a term such as this is very interesting and it is ironic that it is occurring within the technology itself, technology(s) that continues to be defined, such as "blogging", this list, etc. Is there a shiny prize here? Let us suppose

Re: There is no third world, ergo no 3rd world city/cities

2006-05-10 Thread Andrew Bucksbarg
Perhaps the distinctions "developer" and "developee" (or "developed upon") would be more apt to describe the (v)empire associations in this context... I would also argue that the distinction between city and rural is just as archaic as the "#rd worlds of the 50's." Can we broaden our thinki

Re: report_on_NNA

2006-06-08 Thread Andrew Bucksbarg
I find this all very interesting and I would like to point out that the term "list lurker" does nothing to encourage participation, but creates a quality of power. Is the "list lurker" part of a necessary culture, giving authority to those who post regularly ("list dominators?")? I also wonder if a

The New Mediated (Em)Body Is My Others

2006-07-05 Thread Andrew Bucksbarg
The New Mediated (Em)Body Is My Others N_DREW The imaginary of the networked, augmented self is unitary, but the practice of this multi-user self, this multiplicity of being in the cybernated, social dataspace is far from a cohesive, organic and maintained system. Networked identity is supp

Re: Bruce Schneier on "Homeland Insecurity"

2004-01-19 Thread andrew bucksbarg
The futility of security points to a need for prevention. Humans and their systems are fallible. The nation state vs. the "terroristic" is a simplistic tool for the political. The tolerance of cultural understanding, non-violent conflict resolution and intervention, diplomacy, etc., seem to m