Daily Archives: 08-07-10
Nudge, nudge
Simon Jenkins: I was always uncomfortable at the overselling of economics as a science, when it is rather a branch of psychology, a study of the peculiarities of human nature. Its spurious objectivity, manifest in its ridiculous love affair with maths, induced a “Jupiter complex”, a conviction that scientific certainty applied with enough rigour to [...]
Urban Versioning System 1.0
Matthew Fuller and Usman Haque, with illustrations by David Cuesta: This document proposes that another lesson can be learned for architecture from computing: the way in which software is made. Here, we want to concentrate on the current most significant mode of software development—Free, Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS)—steering clear of ubicomp fantasies that [...]
The Map is almost the terrain
“For now, enjoy the first world map with constant-scale natural boundary”: Chuck Clark writes: The art historian Erwin Panofsky, in his book Albrecht Durer, called this “prototopology,” which means merely that the map, when properly folded, resembles the object. (Strange Maps)
Google: ‘Privacy? Depends–where are you?’