Tim Maughan takes a bus into the Cloud. Spread over two days in April at Princeton’s School of Architecture, Data Drama was the latest attempt to try and capture the post-Snowden, paranoia-infested, panic-overloaded, drone-struck global Zeitgeist - if such a thing even exists. Which academic disciplines are most applicable for trying to fathom where our collective networked neurosis is leading us? Data Drama’s curator Liam Young, known for his work at Princeton and London’s Architecture...| Arcfinity
From Alphaville to Robocop, science fiction has the measure of smart cities, says Tim Maughan. In a recent article on the continuing civil unrest in Turkey, sociologist Zeynep Tufekci argues that the science fiction metaphors the media so frequently turn to are outdated. “Nineteen Eighty-Four had finally arrived, it was said - just off by 30 years or so. But this is the wrong way to understand what’s happening,” she argues. “Deep and pervasive surveillance is real. It is likely worse ...| Arcfinity