Virilio + Rosler

What stands out in "The Overexposed City" for me is the synonomisities that Virilio draws form the past to connect the present. The most prominent of these parallels is "to go into the city" as opposed to "to go to the city". The perhephery of the city is becoming absorbed. He goes on to talk about the lack of facade and that the city has no face. Therefore do we still recognize the city? Are we bound to confront a faceless identity? Have the homogenizing companies masked the face?
The transparency of materials in construction have aided in the facelessness of the city. So are we now assuming the role of the face of the city, are we becoming the city by revealing the goings-on within? Or are we tired of the soild walls that present a institutional over-skin/ a monumental inaccessability?
We are collapsing the our time through technology. It is possible to be apart of multiple times at once. What aobut our current place/time? We project into the 'net' to seek the opinions/oppurtunities of a distanced audience. The screen becomes the translator. Virilio decribes the CRT monitor as the vehicle of information, to access the world at home. Televisions are becoming thinner in profile, maybe we are ready to replace our windows with plasma and lcd displays. We can vew the outside, afar, any view we want.
The screen becomes the place, we are at odds with our origin, if the hearth was our focus then we might be more aware of our mortality...maybe living more for what we have instead of what we want to acquire.

Rosler-

We are able to access may things through cyberspace, through our disconnected air travels. The value of air travel allows us to be in a location in a lot less time. As opposed to road travel which is slow and more dangerous statistically, air travel presents oppurtunities for near instant relocation.
As Rosler points out, the aeroplane has become a techno-infused, dislocative space. Compared to the travel by road which has connection to what it traverses the plane is visually disjointed. The lack of journey, as Rosler states, substites scene for a map view. We have saved ourselves some time, the value is in its emergency sitution transportation. The struggle of travel is alleviated by transporting at a speedy rate. We no longer have to engage with the landscape we can transcend it. As we propel ourseves are we missing anything?
The dislocation, observed by Emerson, of the rail travel is annalogous to the airlines of today. The question is then what level of dislocation are we willing to allow, what is the cost? At the current state air travel is the most dislocated form. However the leaps in technology also create a huge disconnect, travelling through virtual space. Is teleportation the next travel disconnect?

As airports become more as touch down/take off sites consumed by the moving of goods (humans included) do they need to have/need a face? Teleporters certainly wouldn't. Airports have a pergatorial quality in their disconnect to most cities, operating on the perhephery.