78 / 77 Imagine a place …
Today, we float as much as ever
in the impossibility of cities as
boullée, escher, and Calvino
suggested. And now a new kind
of city lives in the cloud: virtual
communities gathering inside
walls made of numbers and the
sheer power of mathematics.
Wouldn’t escher be proud?
but we haven’t lost our yearning
for what we can touch, the
aura of a physical locus that we
can exist in. Looking up into an
infinite celestial darkness can
only take us so far. We want
specifics. People need culture,
society, the secrets of the world
that Calvino’s Marco Polo offers
to whisper in our ears.
