Sunday, September 11, 2011

The Importance of Place

The New Atlantis: Place and Placelessness in America (via Mark T. Mitchell)

GPS and the End of the Road

by Ari N. Schulman

Since the days of Jack Kerouac, the image of personal freedom has been the driver on the open road. What, then, should we make of the navigation revolution found in GPS and “location-awareness”? Do they expand our freedom, as they seem to promise? Ari N. Schulman looks to On the Road and Huckleberry Finn, asking why we aspire to travel, and what we expect to get out of it today.

Symposium: What ‘Place’ Means to Us Today

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