>
> Alan--
>
> Could you explain the relation of protocols to packets of
> modernization?
The term was used in The Homeless Mind (Berger and {forget]) to refer to
auxiliary attributes, etc. that accompany a core object - modularity,
bandwidth, static, the 'clean and proper body' (Kristeva), and so forth -
in relation to the transistor radio ...
> It's true that the description is abstract. It's very unsatisfying. I
> wanted to talk about space only to get rid of the term; it became an
> obstacle. One of the impulses is to evacuate space as such along
> with some of its tokens, so that we can investigate what traffics
> under its guise. Because this term usually conceals or substitutes for
> something else. Gayatri Spivak said this about "culture."
>
I would think Lefebvre or Edward Soja's work on Third Space would be
critical here.
Alan
> Let's go about this the wrong way. Whatever remains in
> September will be the space we're talking about.
>
> JC
>
>
>
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