Subject: Fwd: Scenes from the Electronic City

From: Susan Irwin <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 15 May 1992 15:21:51 -0700

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Date:	Fri, 15 May 1992 14:47:11 -0700
From:	Steve Harrison <[email-masked]>
Subject: Scenes from the Electronic City
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	"To fully participate in the electronic city is to have virtually all
of one's activities recorded, correlated, and made available to an
enormous invisible government of credit agencies, back office computer
banks, and endless media connections.  To exist in the public realm in
the electronic system means to be wired in.  The ultimate consequence is
that the body, the person, no longer simply exists in public space but
actually becomes it." 

Or so says Michael Sorkin in "Scenes from the Electronic City"* -- an
essay on the substitution of electronic space for the physical space of
the city.  Drawing inspiration from the Willie Kennedy Smith trial,
ATM's and the death of Walter Hudson (world's fattest person), Sorkin
takes on the transformation of civic/public space and our private lives
into a fragmentary series of disconnected images like broadcast
television.

Steve sez, "Check it out".

SRH

* Sorkin, M., "Scenes from the Electronic City" in I.D. Magazine,
May/June 1992.