Re: [-empyre-] Try again

[Kate Southworth <katesouthworth@gloriousninth.com>]

4/13/05 9:16Sally Jane NormanS.J.Norman@newcastle.ac.uk

> I guess I'm interested in the
> go-betweens and slippage between these different kinds of spaces, and
> the appropriateness/ robustness of their respective metaphors as they
> move from one to the other. Could we get a reading on matrixial urban
> space, as opposed to the city built for canon widths (Hausmann for the
> imminent Paris Commune massacre), or as a radial construction to seat
> political power (Pierre L'Enfant in Washington)?  Where are the agoras
> and where are the networks and mazes and how do they inter-relate?

What would a Matrixial urban space feel like?

As well as the agoras, networks and mazes, I imagine Matrixial time - which
is a little resistant to temporal cuts, splits, cleavages  - might mean
that, for example, activities organised into pre-determined blocks of time,
might have to be re-thought.

Kate