modularity is death
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Actually modularity is "never alive in the first place" reversible assembly = opposite of life/negentropic things
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I assume you're familiar with notion of segmentary and non-segmentary societies?
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in the sense of separate groupings? Alexander thinks boundaries are non-segmentary (at least US) rudi.net/books/201 (& that's good)
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No, it's a sociological concept. Durkheim I think. Arab tribes are segmentary (modular). Agri-civilizations are not.
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that's what I think alexander is saying neighborhoods/cities are not, though it's easier to pretend they are
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(segmentary that is, in your spatial-metaphoric sense of tiles)

