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Virilio's statement (even out of context) harbors some potential contradictions in and of itself. In general, Virilio capsulizes the notion that communication, information, and even action are now able to travel and be delivered at the speed of light thus eliminating the heretofore requirement of space for communication and action to occur, and, moreover, that the limitations of space for human interaction are no longer an issue. The contradiction is that in reality light and its paramount speed can never be independent of the limitations of space. For example, cyber surgery has found 'real time' limitations of the speed of light if the doctor is too far away from the operating room--even milli-second lapses in communication are too critical even for the speed of light as a medium. Another example is the reality that even at the speed of light a message sent to the planet Mars will take 10 minutes to get there, and a reply from Mars will take 10 minutes to get to Earth. That's a total of 20 minutes of "real time" at the speed of light, and we all know how much can occur in just the domain of a single room in 20 minutes time.
What's interesting about the double organs of the kidneys and the lungs is that both organs carry out a lot of osmosis, thus it might just be that the design of these organs reflect the balancing operation that they largely perform.
Kaleidoscopic Lacunae, a book executed in about three hours by myself and Anna D. July 2001, is entirely an exercise in asymmetry, albeit kaleidoscopic. For almost two weeks now, I've been formulating a new series of artist books entitled Architecture Not Now!--kinda like 'architecture scrap book' meets 'Learning from Kaleidoscopic Lacunae'. |
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