urban media —
The Oyster card is the RFID based payment system for the Tube (subway) network in London. Up until January 2007, i would not allow myself to get an Oyster card. These were my reasons why:
Price-based access enforcement to collective transport networks is a mistake; public transport should tend to be free. Free-riding behaviour isn’t a […]
Wrote this a few months ago and forgot about it. Is scrappy, but a decent preface to the next post on the stack…
I seem unable to see a copy of Aramis without walking off with it. Frumin’s i returned the next day, Shekhar’s copy i half-advertently whisked 3000 miles away from where it needed to […]
Sadly enough the word “metadata” still acts on me like catnip on cats, then the words “data licensing” put a seal on it, I feel impelled to go and poke my nose in other people’s business. The business in question was that of Re:Transmission, a gathering of independent video producers held in London, and their […]
Time passes, and I find myself at Shekhar’s urban media reading group again. This session crossed Kevin Lynch’s classic The Image of the City with a couple of more recent texts on the exchange of different conceptions of “public” space and its use in the growing stages of Indian megacities. Here are my notes from […]
Shekhar Krishnan operates as a one-person cultural institution, and i barely had time for a nap after getting back from California, before connecting to his nexus of the cultural life of Cambridge.
Biella Coleman was giving a lecture yesterday afternoon, to a lot of sociologists and anthropologists in his department at MIT, with the snappy title […]