On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 5:12 PM, lasko <lascaux at riseup.net> wrote:
> On 6/4/12 7:41 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
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>> On Jun 4, 2012, at 6:17 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote:
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>>> If you're in a strange city, a smart phone is a great blessing being at
>>> once a map, a phone, a camera, and a mobile, lightweight computer.
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>> In a strange city? I do that at least 10 times a day in Brooklyn.
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/05/opinion/sunday/the-death-of-the-cyberflaneur.html
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>> the whole point of the flâneur’s wanderings is that he does not know
>> what he cares about. As the German writer Franz Hessel, an occasional
>> collaborator with Walter Benjamin, put it, “in order to engage in
>> flânerie, one must not have anything too definite in mind.” Compared
>> with Facebook’s highly deterministic universe, even Microsoft’s
>> unimaginative slogan from the 1990s — “Where do you want to go
>> today?” — sounds excitingly subversive. Who asks that silly question
>> in the age of Facebook?
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