by Mark Wigley
- Author(s)
- Mark Wigley
- Publication
- Masachussets : MIT, 2001
- Scope
- 40 Pages.
- Carrier
- A4 file containing print
To historicize the then current hype about networks (2001), Wigley suggests that “we are actually at the end point of the network logic,” and more specifically, that “contemporary discourse about the net simply realizes nineteenth-century fantasies that were acted out throughout most of the last century” (84). Ultimately, Wigley’s point is that the media studies discourse of networks in the 1960s, exemplified by McLuhan, paralleled, or perhaps even followed from, the architectural discourse from the same period, exemplified by Doxiadis’s circle. Furthermore, the origins of this way of thinking about global networks can be traced back to an earlier generation of architects and designers from the late 1920s. Also in the A4 file: an article from Dot Dot Dot about Ekistics.
- Keywords
- architecture , digitization , future scenario's , architecture history
- Location
- Cabinet 15 - 5: Architectuur en Kunst
- Remarks
- From: Grey Room 4, no. 4 (2001), (p. 82–122.)
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