Comments on: Woven Spaces

By: Quick Links 4 | Bookmarks

Quick Links 4 | Bookmarks — Mon, 31 May 2010 08:53:13 +0000

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By: Tim Maly

Tim Maly — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:13:34 +0000

Adding this to my “to read” list.

By: Tim Maly

Tim Maly — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:13:03 +0000

Now that I think about it, this entire post is missing the tagging system of gangs and other places where humans delimit areas to one another, even in their clothing (don’t wear red here, this is Crips territory).

By: Lex

Lex — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:34:14 +0000

In The City & The City by China Mieville uses this concept legal and illegal interwoven space as well. His setting is a bit like Berlin during the Cold War (if the Berlin Wall were instead a psychic border between societies and cities rather than a physical barrier).

From the publisher: “Inspector Borlú must travel from the decaying Beszel to the only metropolis on Earth as strange as his own. This is a border crossing like no other, a journey as psychic as it is physical, a shift in perception, a seeing of the unseen. His destination is Beszel’s equal, rival, and intimate neighbor, the rich and vibrant city of Ul Qoma.”

By: Peggy Nelson

Peggy Nelson — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:17:36 +0000

Also functions in fairy tales, like the smartforest in Sleeping Beauty.

By: matthewbattles

matthewbattles — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:49:46 +0000

Think about how cunningly well ecology does woven space. What to me is a somewhat humid patch of grass to a butterfly is a pheremone-streaked wonderland of exploding ultraviolet flowers. Does our architecture aspire towards this kind of sensuous (not to mention personal, legal, &c.) interdimensionality?