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Infrastructural City in Dwell

The May issue of Dwell has a brief review of the Infrastructural City. Kind words, although I would quibble about the tone being cynical. It’s pessimistic, not cynical. The latter, to me, is best defined by Peter Sloterdijk. Obama may well be cynical. Bill Clinton definitely was. I’m a pessimist. I know full well, but I’m willing to say so.

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Submitted by varnelis interview at triple canopy - mammoth // building no (not verified) on 17 November, 2009 - 18:34.
[...] in that box and one which, to be simplistic and reductive, might be described as infrastructural pessimism) along with Landscape Infrastructures (which, to again be simplistic, might be described as [...]

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Kazys Varnelis [CV] is the Director of the Network Architecture Lab at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation. With Robert Sumrell, he runs the non-profit architectural collective AUDC. Click here for more.