Philadelphia

A (slightly edited) passage from Lindsay Bremner’s draft for “Citiness as Literariness”

In Events, Literature, PDF, Philadelphia, Philosophy, Urbanism on 30 October 2007 with no comments

A (slightly edited) passage from Lindsay Bremner’s draft for “Citiness as Literariness” [PDF]. Found via Networked_Performance.
The city asserts its otherness in a number of ways.
Firstly, it exposes us to an excessive presence of others, of strangers, who call into question our ownership of the world.
Second…the city annihilates authorship. It is most certainly a made artifact, [...]

The City of Big Brotherly Love

In Philadelphia, Screens, Security, Surveillance on 23 October 2007 with no comments

Philadelphia, the City of Big Brotherly Love? Salient details:
Philadelphia will be getting 250 additional surveillance cameras…
The expansion will cost nearly $10 million
“I envision cameras in just every district of the city down the road,” Gaittens said.
The city has partnered with a private company to install and maintain [...]