Slog - Comments on Being the Skyline http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/being_the_skyline Something special appears in the pages of Graham Harman's short essay on the ideas of Bruno Latour and Manuel DeLanda: To use one of DeLanda’s own examples, a city has a certain infrastructure that can be viewed as material, but also has facades and skylines, an excessive surface unnecessary for their current functions. The term “skyline” is so nice that it ought to be made into a technical term in philosophy: objects are not just hidden material strata, but each has a skyline with which it greets the others. How does one turn this... ...into a term like "ontology" or... Copyright 2008 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 10:10:16 -0800 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:46:27 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by kathy where can i find this essay?

]]> kathy http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/being_the_skyline#c1181541 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/being_the_skyline#c1181541 Arts Thu, 23 Oct 2008 10:24:56 -0800 Comment by a Pseudoscientific asshole. Skyline a goddamn word, a nice word but still just a word. Learn to use them the normal way, faggot.

]]> a http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/being_the_skyline#c1181544 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/being_the_skyline#c1181544 Arts Thu, 23 Oct 2008 10:28:56 -0800 Comment by Non How does one turn this…into a higher resolution image?

(beautiful)

]]> Non http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/being_the_skyline#c1181645 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/being_the_skyline#c1181645 Arts Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:40:26 -0800 Comment by Karl Schuck Try "topography"--there's 'natural' topography and there's 'man-made' topography, but it's all topography.

]]> Karl Schuck http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/being_the_skyline#c1181663 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/being_the_skyline#c1181663 Arts Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:49:32 -0800 Comment by Ponderer I'm not exactly clear what functions facades and skylines (shouldn't there just be one skyline??) have with respect to their material-ness. Might it just be for decoration, or to one-up the last tower that was built by out-designing the previous buildings? Or do skylines participate in a sign-exchange?

Also, if there were no beauty in any given building--no artistic facade, at least--would it follow that there could be no (imaginary) communication between this building to that building, or this city's skyline to that city's skyline?

]]> Ponderer http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/being_the_skyline#c1181688 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/being_the_skyline#c1181688 Arts Thu, 23 Oct 2008 12:02:46 -0800 Comment by Vince Atmosauric.

]]> Vince http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/being_the_skyline#c1181869 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/being_the_skyline#c1181869 Arts Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:46:27 -0800