consider architecture on the web: a place (website) presents very little surface to the outside, but is much larger on the inside
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Replying to @allgebrah
it's twitter's frontpage vs everything that happens on it; the "walls" of any social site are plastered with profiles, virtual skins
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Replying to @allgebrah
isn't that some building that covers its walls with the skins of its inhabitants "soylent green is people" doesn't even begin to describe it
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Replying to @allgebrah
many traditional rules of architecture don't apply - w/out bodies, who needs buildings? but some sort of space does emerge from our movement
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Replying to @allgebrah
website architecture should be more four dimensional, atm it's often 1d
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Replying to @arslibertatis
I kind of came to the opposite conclusion, since the number of directions you can move in is huge (each link is another)
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Replying to @allgebrah @arslibertatis
it's a very abstract space, the only intuitive notion that's really preserved is that of movement & distance
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dimensionality is awkward on graphs, to grasp this space, ask: what do you see? what can you touch? what can you not touch?
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Replying to @allgebrah @arslibertatis
[I wrote a 20-tweet rant to myself on the alt about this, these are the condensed concepts; maybe it's worth a short essay?]
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the original question was: in cyberspace, without bodies, what is left of architecture when we stop cargoculting?
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Replying to @allgebrah @arslibertatis
but I suppose you can refer to click-through funnels or endless timelines as one-dimensional, if that is what you mean?
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Replying to @allgebrah
Yes, that's what I mean. Text is just a 1d string and following a link feels 1d as well.
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