theoreis and practices of digitextuality

1"The Poetics of augmented space"
virtual space vs augmented space A typical VR system presents a user with a virtual space that has nothing to do with the immediate physical space of the usuer; in contrast, a typical AR system adds the information directly related to this immediate physical space. but we don't necessaily have to think of immersion into the virtual and augumentation of the physical as the opposites.

p76 if video and other types of surveillance technologies translate the physical space and its dwellers into data, cellspace technologies work in the opposite direction:delivering data to mobile-space dwellers. cellspace is physical space filled with data that can be retrieved by a user using a personal communication device.

p77 It also makes sense to bring together the surveillance/monitoring of space and its dwellers, and the augmentation of space with additional data, because these two functions often go hand in hand. For instance, by knowing the location of a person equipped with a cell phone, particular information relevant to this location can be sent to this cell phone.... This close connection between surveillance and assistance is one of the key characteristics of high-tech society. This is how these technologies are made to work, and this is why I am discussing data flows from the space(surveillance, monitoring, tracking) and into the space (cellspace application, computer screens, and other examples, below) together.

robert Venturi Iconography and Electronics upon a Generic Architecture: a view from the drafting room (MIT 1996)
complexity and contradiction in architecture
Learning from Las Vegas

2 "space invaders" peter lunenfeld

http://www.peterlunenfeld.com/about/
"snap to grid: A user's guide to digital arts, media and culture"
"The Secret War Between Downloading and Uploading: Tales of the Computer as Culture Machine" came out from the MIT Press in May, 2011

todd Gitlin The sixities: years of hope, days of rage
George Katsiaficas the imagination of the new left: a global analysis of 1968
Andrew Feenberg and Jim Freedman when poetry ruled the street: the french may events of 1968