{"id":6161,"date":"2004-10-01T18:28:19","date_gmt":"2004-10-01T18:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/01\/archisemiotics\/"},"modified":"2004-10-01T18:28:19","modified_gmt":"2004-10-01T18:28:19","slug":"archisemiotics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/01\/archisemiotics\/","title":{"rendered":"Archisemiotics, To Critiques of Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">mins<\/span><\/span><p>Like <a href=\"http:\/\/chutry.wordherders.net\/archives\/002660.html\" >Chuck<\/a>,<br \/>\nI started my FY writing class early this morning with a teaser about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/cgi-bin\/stories.pl?ACCT=109&amp;STORY=\/www\/story\/10-01-2004\/0002262721&amp;EDATE=\">debates<br \/>\nlast night:<\/a> who watched?&nbsp; next-day gut-level impressions?&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The first comment in my 8:30 a.m. section: &quot;George Bush came off as<br \/>\nreally likable and genuine.&nbsp; He was angry at times, but he was real, like<br \/>\nsomebody you&#8217;d meet at a bar.&nbsp; His vocabulary seemed more everyday.&nbsp;<br \/>\nHe came right out and said &#8216;You can&#8217;t do that.&nbsp; The president can&#8217;t lead<br \/>\nthat way.&#8217;&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Mm-hmm.&nbsp; Okay.&nbsp; The barstool intellectual stumble-de-do is exactly<br \/>\nthe thing that worries <i>some<\/i> folks (although I won&#8217;t name specific names).<br \/>\n&lt;loop&gt; <i>It&#8217;s a lot of work.&nbsp; You can&#8217;t say wrong war, wrong place,<br \/>\nwrong time.&nbsp; What message does that send?&nbsp; It&#8217;s a lot of work.&nbsp;<br \/>\nSix-party talks&#8230;if ever we ever needed China, now.<\/i>&lt;\/loop&gt;<\/p>\n<p>Students had great insights on the debates; they recognized nuance between<br \/>\nthe candidates, articulated them with conviction that this election matters to<br \/>\nthem.&nbsp; We shifted our attention after several minutes, even though some<br \/>\nstudents preferred a sustained conversation about the event over the other plans<br \/>\nfor the hour.&nbsp; The connection, for us, came from the debate&#8217;s framed<br \/>\nemphases: foreign policy and homeland security.&nbsp; <i>Homeland security<\/i><br \/>\nis particularly timely in these classes&#8211;the two I teach every MWF.&nbsp; The<br \/>\ncourses are organized around questions involving spatial analysis&#8211;geographies<br \/>\nof exclusion, socio-spatial critiques of the campus and of hometown spaces, and<br \/>\narguments about surveillance, privatization of public spaces, neighborhood<br \/>\nwatches and localized security poses, perceptions of threat, and so on.&nbsp; In<br \/>\nfact, the second assignment is called, <a href=\"http:\/\/writing.syr.edu:16080\/~dmueller\/wrt105aassn2.html\" >&quot;Homeland (In)Securities.&quot;<\/a>&nbsp;<br \/>\nSo I wanted to move from the debates&#8211;<i>how would we understand homeland<br \/>\nsecurity if we could read the notion through last night&#8217;s debates alone?<\/i>&#8211;to<br \/>\nour current, in-progress projects on hometown spaces, memory work, strangers and<br \/>\nsafety, contested zones, etc.&#8211;<i>how can we extend the idea of a controlled<br \/>\nsurrounds (in the debates, taken to the limits of the globe, <\/i>empiric<i>ally<br \/>\nexhaustive) to the material-spatial patterns of policing, security,<br \/>\n&quot;known&quot; threats and deliberate municipal designs aimed at thwarting<br \/>\nrisk?<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I grumbled about Mike Davis&#8217;s &quot;Fortress L.A.&quot; article (from <i>City<br \/>\nof Quartz<\/i>), earlier in the week, but I&#8217;m doubling back on those doubts now<br \/>\nthat the classes read the chapter.&nbsp; Davis adopts a term I&#8217;m growing ever<br \/>\nmore fond of as we move ahead with spatial analysis&#8211;<i>archisemiotics<\/i>.&nbsp;<br \/>\nBasically, Davis argues that L.A.&#8217;s architectural development implies<br \/>\nunambiguous messages about social homogeneity in the urban center.&nbsp; If we<br \/>\naccept the latency of meaning in the city-scape (buildings, barriers), reading<br \/>\nspaces becomes a process of seeing significance in spatial design as it<br \/>\ndetermines who can go where, when, for how long, etc., and imposes a character<br \/>\non the peopling of the space, its social flows&#8211;viscocities.&nbsp; It makes<br \/>\nstructures rhetorically significant, inscribing them to their perimeters with a<br \/>\nsentience&#8211;not unlike, according to Davis, the eerie, systematized conscience of<br \/>\nthe building in <i>Die Hard<\/i>.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>I suppose 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