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Social divisions shifting from a physical to a virtual space

By areti.markopoulou ⋅ August 18, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

New communities occupying urban and cyber space
Virtual potentials tend to eliminate physical distances, they facilitate communication and create an easily accessible virtual database of information. From Anthony Giddens to Manuel Castells in Informational City (1989) and to Pierre Levy in the Qu’ est-ce que le virtuel (1995), there is no doubt that computer-mediated [...]

Whose sex in the city / Whose space in the city?

By ben.howard ⋅ August 6, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Who are the people who own the space of the contemporary city; its image both real and imagined? Two events coincided to ignite this question during the beginnings of my holidays with my girlfriend:
A bus: midnight border check between Spain and France
A soap drama: Sex and the City
We stop at the border crossing, between Spain [...]

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