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 > 72. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, 28 Compare this passage from Abstraction and Empathy. “In the Ionic temple and the architectural development ensuing upon it the purely constructional skeleton, which is based solely the laws of matter […] was guided over into the more friendly and agreeable life of the organic, and purely mechanical functions became organic in their effect. The criterion of the organic is always the harmonious, always the balanced, the inwardly calm into whose movement and rhythm we can without difficulty flow with the vital sensation of our organisms. In absolute antithesis to the Greek idea of architecture, we have the, on the other hand, the Egyptian pyramid, which calls a halt to our empathy impulse and presents itself to us as a purely crystalline substance. A third possibility now confronts us in the Gothic cathedral, which indeed operates with abstract values, but nonetheless directs an extremely strong and forcible appeal to our capacity for empathy.
 Here, however, constructional relations are not illumined by a feeling for the organic, as is the process in Greek temple building, but purely mechanical relationships of forces are brought to view per se, and in addition these relationships of forces are intensified to the maximum in their tendency to movement and in their content by a power of empathy that extends to the abstract. It is not the life of an organism which we see before us, but that of mechanism. No organic harmony surrounds the feeling of reverence toward the world, but an ever growing and self-intensifying restless striving without deliverance sweeps the inwardly disharmonious psyche away with it in an extravagant ecstasy, into fervent excelsior.” (115
 
-## [[fulldocs.Transmitting Architecture-The Transphysical City]]
+### Transmitting Architecture-The Transphysical City]]
+- [[fulldocs.Transmitting Architecture-The Transphysical City]]
 
 - also [[Quotes.transmitting.architecture]]
 
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 >Edent - Book Review: Me++ The Cyborg Self and the Networked City - William J. Mitchell https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2022/07/book-review-me-the-cyborg-self-and-the-networked-city-william-j-mitchell/​
 
+### McLuhan - City as classroom
 >teledyn - In "City as a Classroom", they describe an experiment comparing comprehension between a front-projected vs back-projected screens and found very similar results, that back projection triggers a fireplace-stare lull. McLuhan often cited this result in comparing television to cinema. 
 #medialiteracy #mcluhan #smartphones #criticalreasoning 
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 > https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-05605-0​
 
+>Let us begin by wondering just what you are doing sitting there at your desk. Here [in the pages that follow] are some questions for you to explore…The questions and experiments you will find in this book are all concerned with important, relatively unexplored areas of our social environment. The research you choose to do will be important and original.
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+> _What did the designers of traditional schools intend when they put thirty or so desks in rows, facing the front of the room? Why is the blackboard at the front? why is the teacher’s desk at the front?_
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+>**“_We have to realize that more instruction is going on outside the classroom, many times more every minute of the day than goes on inside the classroom. That is, the amount of information that is embedded in young minds per minute outside the classroom far exceeds anything that happens inside the classroom in just quantitative terms now.”_ _“In the future basic skills will no longer be taught in classrooms.”_ – _McLuhan, M. (1966, April). Electronics & the psychic drop-out. THIS Magazine is about SCHOOLS._  p. 38.**
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 - city density? information density? parix x new york