If you want to stick around I'll head out with you. So he went out into the hallway and grabbed a chair. It's the new issue of Adbusters , a magazine that he'll glance through sometimes in the bookstore but doesn't normally buy. This issue is all about urbanism, though, about strategies for transforming cities, and since he's interested in those sorts of ideas, he wanted to see what they had in mind. The issue arranges interesting quotes, images, and slogans into categories of the type of space they remark upon.
Complexity is born from interference.
People today are equipped with an electronic body in which information circulates, and are thus linked to the world through a network of information by means of this other body. He thinks here momentarily about this movie Memento that he and Fletcher went to see one evening recently when they were both burnt out from grading. He imagines tattooing remember Toyo Ito across his thigh. In the office, Fletcher finishes filling out the grade forms. There's Jakob, hunched over a magazine, reading.