[-empyre-] Re: Mobile Media debate

[Ryan Griffis <ryan.griffis@gmail.com>]

On Sep 27, 2006, at 9:00 PM, empyre-request@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au  
wrote:

> Well, any English or American citizen who thinks it's all
> gonna be OK is a fool or a cynic, that's for sure. Felix
> Stalder posted on netime today a preview of what the
> Anglo-American war is producing, under the heading "Feral
> Cities":
>
> http://www.nwc.navy.mil/press/Review/2003/Autumn/art6-a03.htm
>
> Of course, in the meantime one can speculate as to the forms
> that the minor narcissistic alienation of the middle classes
> will take, and one can even make so-called art of those
> forms, but I gotta say I'm not very impressed....

i came across Norton in his analysis of urban planning and  
transportation infrastructure policies related to "right of way" and  
"slum clearance" programs...
but what's interesting, or scary, about the whole "feral cities"  
theory is that Octavia Butler envisioned it in a 1993 sci-fi novel  
(Parable of the Sower). almost to the t.
best,
ryan