Paul Virilio and Martha Rosler

The Overexposed City
Virilio discusses how technology is creating a disconnection between us and the real world and that our relationship to it is being ever increasingly mediated by technology. He talks about how there is no longer a sense of place for the city where we nolonger know wether we are in it or outside it or even if an edge even exists anymore. The space that is created by technology, by things like the internet, film, television and telecommunications is a space that needs to be addressed, or incorporated into the idea of the city today. Architecture in his mind should deall with this 'technological space-time'. Maybe our ideas of the edge and boundry need to be revised to go beyong a geographical deviding line, where space is not so easily constrained and sectioned. As in the editing of a movie space can be constructed and deconsrtucted at will where the idea of time can be controlled and manipulated to serve the need of the narritive our life has become controlled by the tools we use and these tools contibute to a ruptured concept of this technological space-time.

In the Place of the Public; Observations of a Traveller
Rosler talks about a disconnection to place in regards to the speed at which one travells. The car or bus, the train and the plane all of which are quicker modes of transportation and the quicker one travels the more of a disconnection that is created. If one thinks of the landscape that passes by in the winow of a train one might be disconnected to a specific sens of place but ones perspective is different in terms of how place is seen in its entirety. This total view or more expansive perspective is heightened even more in a plane as you can see yourself in respect to where you are in a ifferent way. I think there is a pysical disconnection with the place but the altered perspective gives one possibly a heightened mental connection to where you place yourself within the world. Maybe this different perpective and disconnection actually gives one the chance to reposition yourself in terms of place, to re-evaluate your position. I think that the idea of the plane and the airport as a placeless place, and and a place of transition is interesting in how it relates to the idea that it is not the destination so much as the journey that is important. How can or even should the plane or airport be more than it is, a means to an end? In some ways the disconnection that technology introduces is brdged by the face to face accesibilty that is offered by travel but the question may remain in what way the litmitless access to the far reaches of the world give to our understanding of where we belong with it.