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Published in “The Infrastructural City: Networked Ecologies in Los Angeles”, 2008
[1] Fredric Jameson, “Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism,” New Left Review 146 (July/ August 1984): 53-92.

[2] Jameson, “Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism,” 81.

[3] Jameson, “Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism,” 80-83.

[4] See Ernest Mandel, Late Capitalism (London: NLB Atlantic Highlands Humanities Press, 1975).

[5] Jameson, “Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism,” 89-92.

[6] Lewis Mumford, The City in History (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1961), 563-567.

[7] For more on the regime of the invisible, see my article “Breve Historia de la Horizontalidad: 1968/9-2001/2,” Pasajes de Arquitectura y Crítica (Marzo 2003), 38-41.

[8] Los Angeles Madison Complex, thecentraloffice.com

[9] Manuel Castells, The Rise of the Network Society, 2nd ed. (Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2000), 409.

[10] For more on One Wilshire, see “Ether” by Robert Sumrell and Kazys Varnelis [AUDC] Blue Monday. Stories of Absurd Realities and Natural Philosophies (Barcelona: ACTAR, 2007), 48-89.

Invisible City: Telecommunications

The patch of asphalt at the east end of Wilshire Boulevard, where it dead-ends into Grand Street, is covered in what appears, at first glance, to be random graffiti. A closer look, however, reveals it to be a secret code.



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Fiber optic networks, Los Angeles © Kazys Varnelis

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