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Polyhedral : recycling boundary ecologies

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posted on 2009-10-01, 00:00 authored by Paul Carter
Foregrounding the extent to which 'place' remains resistant to the politics and poetics of 'network culture', this essay approaches place as a boundary ecology rather than as an instance of cultural invariance. It calls on readers to think about attempts to actively recycle cultural 'debris' or 'waste' through an ethics of passage instead of the kind of instrumentalist statics that prevents the development of an ontology of mobility. Con-tending that such a capacity to inhabit passage is compromised by the eschatological language used to communicate the implications of environmental disaster, as well as by languages of consultation that (con-ceptually) empty place of any creative power to incubate alternatives – events, modes of relation –, the essay stresses the mythopoetic techniques that produce places as knots or nodal points within a network of pas-sage. The designer's task is to create the hinge mechanisms that render such boundary ecologies inhabitable imaginatively, and by materialising the nexus between creativity and change to alter our position vis-a-vis our ethical responsibilities as citizens of a shared biosphere.

History

Journal

International review of information ethics

Volume

11

Pagination

45 - 51

Publisher

International Center for Information Ethics

Location

Karlsruhe, Germany

ISSN

1614-1687

Language

eng

Notes

This article is located on the 47th page in the attached link.

Publication classification

C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2009, IRIE

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