## Martha Rosler (1994). *In the Place of the Public: Observations of a Frequent Flyer*. : . > [!INFO] > Type:: [[]] > Title:: In the Place of the Public: Observations of a Frequent Flyer > Author(s): [[Martha Rosler]] > Year:: 1994 > Tags:: > DOI:: 10.2307/3171387 > Citekey:: rosler_place_1994 > ZoteroURI:: [Open in Zotero: In the Place of the Public: Observations of a Frequent Flyer](zotero://select/items/@rosler_place_1994) > ReviewedDate:: [[2023-10-06]] ## Citation ```latex [@rosler_place_1994] ``` ## Related ```dataview TABLE file.aliases AS "Title" FROM [[@rosler_place_1994]] and -"Plans" and -"resources" ``` ## Summary - ## Annotation 61 * Capitalism and neocapitalism have produced abstract space, which includes the ’world of commodities,’ its ‘logic’ and its worldwide strategies, as well as the power of money and that of the political state. This space is founded on the vast network of banks, business centres and major productive entities, as also on motorways, airports and information lattices. Within this space the town - once the forcing-house of accumulation, fountainhead of wealth and centre of historical space - has disintegrated. ==Henri Lefebvre, *The Production of Space*, trans. Donald Nicholson-Smith (Oxford, 1991), p. 53.== ## 62 * Walter Benjamin, unexpectedly, ends “The Work of Art in the Age of Technical Reproduction” with a pocket analysis of architecture: “Architecture has never been idle. Its history is more ancient thant that of any other art, and its claim to being a living force has significance in every attempt to comprehend the relationship of the masses to art.” ==Walter Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” (1939), in Illuminations, ed. Hannah Arendt, trans. Harry Zohn (New York: Schocken, 1969). 240.== Architecture, Benjamin continues, is “appropriated” not only through sight but through touch; it is experienced baby the body as presence, through “distraction,” or habitual use, not though optical contemplation. ## 63 * Henri Lefebvre, followed by a host of commentators, has shown how space is produced by the relations of production, mapping political economy onto the physical world. * Notes: no.11. On the most concrete level, commercial flying was kept financially aloft by its national and inter- national transport of the mail. ## 69 * While the airport does not escape its conception as a system composed of a linked series of operational “modules” — a term interestingly incorporated not only into the lexicon of space travel but also that of the “architecture” of the computer “environment” — it is useful to elide the distinction between architected and engineered space. * Architecturally ➡︎ airline terminal is conceived as a hangar and shed. ➡︎ It is essential to the construction functionality of glasswork and steel. ## 70 * political and religious leaflets was uniformly denied until reinstated by the Supreme Court. In this effort at a tidy order free of political or religious displays, airport authorities have revealed their conception of the facility as a private space much like a store or home. “Public spaces” are rethought here as “nonprivate” spaces, spaces of consumption and control or spaces of disorder, characterized by homelessness, crime, vehicular traffic. ### Related ```dataview LIST FROM [[@rosler_place_1994]] and -"Plans" and -"resources" ```