In my writing about the Interverse since October, I have covered two key ideas: Identity Cities We saw how the metaverse builds upon ‘identity as a medium.’ We have also seen how cities can be media, the carrier of new messages on the surface of buildings and billboards and in a different way inside their infrastructure; the pipes that carry sewage are also media. In the last three essays, I engaged with Shannon Mattern’s thoughts about code and the city, ending with an argument against humanism. We are barely scratching the surface of media archaeology and what that brings to our understanding of the Interverse and I’ll keep returning to it in the future.
M16: Text and the City, Part IV
M16: Text and the City, Part IV
M16: Text and the City, Part IV
In my writing about the Interverse since October, I have covered two key ideas: Identity Cities We saw how the metaverse builds upon ‘identity as a medium.’ We have also seen how cities can be media, the carrier of new messages on the surface of buildings and billboards and in a different way inside their infrastructure; the pipes that carry sewage are also media. In the last three essays, I engaged with Shannon Mattern’s thoughts about code and the city, ending with an argument against humanism. We are barely scratching the surface of media archaeology and what that brings to our understanding of the Interverse and I’ll keep returning to it in the future.