Comments on: Paris, invisible city http://liftlab.com/think/nova/2008/04/14/paris-invisible-city/ mind/tech bazar from outer space Sun, 06 Jul 2008 08:23:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.1 By: » Blog Archive » Quelques liens pour rebondir http://liftlab.com/think/nova/2008/04/14/paris-invisible-city/#comment-473901 » Blog Archive » Quelques liens pour rebondir Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:01:10 +0000 http://liftlab.com/think/nova/2008/04/14/paris-invisible-city/#comment-473901 [...] en lisant le blog de Nicolas Nova, voici une version online du livre “Paris ville invisible” de Bruno Latour et Emilie Hermant (1998) - un projet sur les réseaux cachés sous [...] […] en lisant le blog de Nicolas Nova, voici une version online du livre “Paris ville invisible” de Bruno Latour et Emilie Hermant (1998) - un projet sur les réseaux cachés sous […]

]]> By: JamesB http://liftlab.com/think/nova/2008/04/14/paris-invisible-city/#comment-470398 JamesB Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:50:34 +0000 http://liftlab.com/think/nova/2008/04/14/paris-invisible-city/#comment-470398 Glad you've picked this out nico. It's a marvellous essay and very French exposition of urbanity. That said, it is a bit frustrating how his 'ethno-methodology' provides traces without any broader narrative. His is a fractal city. The way in which I've found it useful to apply his approach is to look at where 'soft' things become 'hard' i.e. where technologies [and with them practices, texts, institutions, actors] take shape. Great for design research. Gripe: I do wish the paris: website was a little more extensible. Flash. Bah! Glad you’ve picked this out nico. It’s a marvellous essay and very French exposition of urbanity. That said, it is a bit frustrating how his ‘ethno-methodology’ provides traces without any broader narrative. His is a fractal city.

The way in which I’ve found it useful to apply his approach is to look at where ’soft’ things become ‘hard’ i.e. where technologies [and with them practices, texts, institutions, actors] take shape. Great for design research. Gripe: I do wish the paris: website was a little more extensible. Flash. Bah!

]]> By: Nicolas Nova http://liftlab.com/think/nova/2008/04/14/paris-invisible-city/#comment-470387 Nicolas Nova Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:11:00 +0000 http://liftlab.com/think/nova/2008/04/14/paris-invisible-city/#comment-470387 There is indeed no english printed version but the text has been translated in english in this PDF: http://www.bruno-latour.fr/livres/viii_paris-city-gb.pdf There is indeed no english printed version but the text has been translated in english in this PDF: http://www.bruno-latour.fr/livres/viii_paris-city-gb.pdf

]]> By: Stan Wiechers http://liftlab.com/think/nova/2008/04/14/paris-invisible-city/#comment-470311 Stan Wiechers Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:07:04 +0000 http://liftlab.com/think/nova/2008/04/14/paris-invisible-city/#comment-470311 that looks so good, there is no engish print version available right? that looks so good, there is no engish print version available right?

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