Saturday, 28 February 2009


just deriving via the web and found theis old photo of york. Looking into bootham bar and found it of interest. think its a lovely photo.
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  1. Roddy Hunter28 February 2009 at 21:45

    Hi Charlie

    Very interesting. Maybe you could upload this image to our google map if you have not done that already? I'm interested too in Bootham Bar as an entrance/exit of the city (although perhaps not as significant as Walmgate, Mickelgate, etc - what is the difference between a bar and a gate anyway?). We had a visiting lecturer, Justin McKeown, with first year students last week and he talked about Paul Virlio's text 'The Overexposed City' (http://www.kt3d.com/pratt/antonio%20articles/Overexposed_City_Virilio.pdf).

    Erin Karper, in reviewing Virilio's text, writes "Once upon a (pre/modernist) time, the City was a gated place, a physical space where access was allowed through actual boundaries such as walls and gates. It served as both a location for living and a location for working, as well itself existing as a boundary. However,"[t]he city is no longer organized into a localized and axial estate (382)"; it no longer serves as a physical location, because of the advent of electronic technologies which blur (often to the point of non-existence) notions of time and space. The new constructed space exists in an electronic ether where time as measured by machines is the new regulator, and the potential for instantaneous communication makes constant arrival of information of more importance than departure. The boundary, instead of existing as a physical demarcation, becomes instead a permeable membrane, a site of passage, a place for exchange. This leads to the importance of what Virilio calls "speed distance," which "obliterates the notion of physical dimension." http://www.karper-crain.net/purdue/projects/680/virilio.html

    More than just a lovely picture too?

    Cheers

    Roddy

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  2. alice5 March 2009 at 19:03

    it is lovely...its strange seeing somewhere so familiar, only its wrong, its got the wrong buildings around it and the roads not right. only instead of that making it slightly unheimlich (is there a normal english word for that?), its actually quite...nostalgic? i'm not sure thats the right word. its a nice thought that its been there for so long.

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