http://iamtheweather.com/2008/12/23/quote-by-the-mobile-city/ interestingness at the intersection of design, art &experience. Mon, 06 Sep 2010 09:59:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://iamtheweather.com/2008/12/23/quote-by-the-mobile-city/comment-page-1/#comment-126 Greg J. Smith Fri, 26 Dec 2008 15:33:25 +0000 http://iamtheweather.com/2008/12/23/quote-by-the-mobile-city/#comment-126 Yes, the Situationist are an oft-abused muse. One does get rather tired of hearing their soundbites tacked on all manner of <a href="http://www.blogto.com/city/2007/11/the_force_was_with_them_maybe_too_much_force/" rel="nofollow">bad urban intervention projects</a>. I think you're right though, if you are going to identify the SI as ancestors you'd best be disrupting (or at least problematizing) the city. Really though, do you think the iPhone crowd is really out for any kind of radicalism anyways? What could be safer than a locked-down, hyper-stylized design object? Yes, the Situationist are an oft-abused muse. One does get rather tired of hearing their soundbites tacked on all manner of bad urban intervention projects. I think you’re right though, if you are going to identify the SI as ancestors you’d best be disrupting (or at least problematizing) the city. Really though, do you think the iPhone crowd is really out for any kind of radicalism anyways? What could be safer than a locked-down, hyper-stylized design object?

]]> http://iamtheweather.com/2008/12/23/quote-by-the-mobile-city/comment-page-1/#comment-125 DesignNotes by Michael Surtees » Blog Archive » Link Drop for the Week Ending in Friday the 26th (December 2008) Fri, 26 Dec 2008 15:03:55 +0000 http://iamtheweather.com/2008/12/23/quote-by-the-mobile-city/#comment-125 [...] “The Mobile City on The Situationists” I am the weather wrote “What struck me was that locative media practitioners often refer back to the situationists as some kind of ancestors, as if they’re working in the same vein. The situationist love for traipsing about town is shared by locative artists who similarly enjoy taking…” [...] [...] “The Mobile City on The Situationists” I am the weather wrote “What struck me was that locative media practitioners often refer back to the situationists as some kind of ancestors, as if they’re working in the same vein. The situationist love for traipsing about town is shared by locative artists who similarly enjoy taking…” [...]

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