In-der-Blog-sein

The Poetics of Decay delves into Building, Dwelling, Rotting, and continued. The architectural aspect of Heidegger's has been on my mind since attending a couple of Pat Helland's Metropolis lectures on how computers are Information Technology is like cities. Pat's theses are partly historical: cities have had a long ramp up period, while IT is only just getting started, in relative temporal terms. I, on the other hand, am more interested in the IT/Cities analogy from the how-can-humans-dwell-in-them angle.

Poetics says:

For Heidegger the question of dwelling is contained in the prospect of remaining, even lingering.

Well I feel we've lingered in some filthly chunks of legacy code long enough, and it is time to upgrade!
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