After the new year, I will again be teaching the course I call Place and Power in the City, and one of the things I am thinking about as I start to get ready for it is the way that built environment creates, in the most literal way, “facts on the ground.” That is, whatever …
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September 24, 2017: What is Lost
I’ve recently begun playing the game Nier Automata, which takes place (as so many things do) on a far-future earth where machines have taken control, exiling humanity to the moon, from which they stage attacks on the machines below. Describing that setup by itself doesn’t do the game justice; it’s beautiful to look at, the …