http://tnl-6.local/blog/144 The Next Layer is a collaborative environment combining open source, experimental and artistic research methodologies. en-US http://tnl-6.local/node/727 <p>Networks:<br /> The emancipatory potential of networks has proven false: in domains from social networks to communications to infrastructure to "hypertext", to thought, we find networks leading to the hardening of relationships, the insulation of dreams, the extension of modes of exploitation. Networks operate via a "tyrrany of nodes", they privilege "peers", or consumers, people like us. They end up recuperating and formalising: reifying, what is already known, already present.</p> <p><a href="http://tnl-6.local/node/727" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://tnl-6.local/node/727#comments English Node.L Node.L Reader Node London Reader 2008 Working Group Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:02:42 +0000 annac 727 at http://tnl-6.local http://tnl-6.local/node/726 <p>Urban Versioning System 1.0.1 (super-mini-special)</p> <p>By Matthew Fuller and Usman Haque</p> <p>2,367 words</p> <p>Preamble</p> <p>The production of structures to articulate, produce and protect space, often coded under the disciplinary term 'architecture' is arguably one of humanity's oldest activities. Countless technologies and legal frameworks have grown along with this process. Formerly one of the most collaborative endeavours, architecture now often functions in opposition to such collaboration.</p> <p><a href="http://tnl-6.local/node/726" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://tnl-6.local/node/726#comments English Node.L Node.L Reader Node London Reader 2008 Working Group Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:58:05 +0000 annac 726 at http://tnl-6.local