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Catttt Posted 10 years ago
Vocabulary
elaborated form of simultaneity
1. Does "simultaneity " mean "co-existence" here?
2. Does "using the quasi-instantaneity of communications" refer to "it" or " the conception"?
3. On the whole, what is your understanding of the highlighted sentence? Can you please rewrite it in another way to be more understandable, even if you can not explain its meaning ?
Context:
On the other hand, he was fully aware even then that a neo-capitalist organisation of urban space ‘no longer gathers people and things, but data and knowledge. It inscribes in an eminently elaborated form of simultaneity the conception of the whole incorporated into an electronic brain, using the quasi-instantaneity of communications’.
2. Does "using the quasi-instantaneity of communications" refer to "it" or " the conception"?
3. On the whole, what is your understanding of the highlighted sentence? Can you please rewrite it in another way to be more understandable, even if you can not explain its meaning ?
Context:
On the other hand, he was fully aware even then that a neo-capitalist organisation of urban space ‘no longer gathers people and things, but data and knowledge. It inscribes in an eminently elaborated form of simultaneity the conception of the whole incorporated into an electronic brain, using the quasi-instantaneity of communications’.
Top answer
He makes an analogy between a limited, enclosed urban area and a brain whose neurons are so elaborately interconnected, that information and data are processed as a single, but spatially-distributed unit.
- He makes an analogy between a limited, enclosed urban area and a brain whose neurons are so elaborately interconnected, that information and data are processed as a single, but spatially-distributed unit.
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He makes an analogy between a limited, enclosed urban area and a brain whose neurons are so elaborately interconnected, that information and data are processed as a single, but spatially-distributed unit.
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Thank you. Now I can somehow understand the meaning behind it. Now, can you help me to analyze the lingual structure of the sentence? Can I rewrite it as:
"taking account of the quasi-instantaneity of communications in cities, it shows that this kind of eminently elaborated form of simultaneity in cities is reminiscent of the concept of the wholeness that exists in the brain"?
"taking account of the quasi-instantaneity of communications in cities, it shows that this kind of eminently elaborated form of simultaneity in cities is reminiscent of the concept of the wholeness that exists in the brain"?
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