On Jun 4, 2012, at 8:12 PM, lasko 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.”
That's very nice, but 1) I could imagine wanting to look up that quote while in a bar, and using my iPhone to do so, and 2) sometimes you have to do things, definitely in mind. Like get to a meeting or a party.
DOug