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Catttt Posted 10 years ago
Vocabulary
switching station
1. Does "switching station" mean "a context with two possibilities (acting and being acted upon)"?
2. Does "acts within" mean "act within itself" or "acts withing its urban surroundings"? (I think the latter)
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However, as I have suggested elsewhere, and as Pearson’s and Shanks’s ‘congregation of strangers’ may already have betrayed, the body has not been replaced at all but re-placed, wandering en masse into the space of the city (and not for the first time, of course), performing in situ, a relational body or ‘switching station’ that acts within and is acted upon by its urban surroundings.
2. Does "acts within" mean "act within itself" or "acts withing its urban surroundings"? (I think the latter)
Context:
However, as I have suggested elsewhere, and as Pearson’s and Shanks’s ‘congregation of strangers’ may already have betrayed, the body has not been replaced at all but re-placed, wandering en masse into the space of the city (and not for the first time, of course), performing in situ, a relational body or ‘switching station’ that acts within and is acted upon by its urban surroundings.
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org/wiki/Switching_station I suspect it means that things in the city come into the body and get changed/moved and put back out in the city in another place or state, and this is not like *** (moving but not moved), but body and city are interconnected (as organs and body are in the human body - here they are 'en masse' in the city). Just my quick take - someone else might chip in with an alternative! acts within = your "acts within its urban surroundings" d
- org/wiki/Switching_station I suspect it means that things in the city come into the body and get changed/moved and put back out in the city in another place or state, and this is not like *** (moving but not moved), but body and city are interconnected (as organs and body are in the human body - here they are 'en masse' in the city).
- Just my quick take - someone else might chip in with an alternative!
- acts within = your "acts within its urban surroundings" d
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There are several types of switching station - you may find it helpful to look somewhere like here -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switching_station
I suspect it means that things in the city come into the body and get changed/moved and put back out in the city in another place or state, and t
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switching_station
I suspect it means that things in the city come into the body and get changed/moved and put back out in the city in another place or state, and t
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I don't think I can add much to that. From the UK (and getting a bit old), I would guess that a switching station is a telephone exchange or main switchboard
Then the metaphor would be a group of people who communicate with each other but, at the same time, are constantly taking in signals from the outside world, passing them between themselves, maybe giving out new signals
I don't think I can add much to that. From the UK (and getting a bit old), I would guess that a switching station is a telephone exchange or main switchboard
Then the metaphor would be a group of people who communicate with each other but, at the same time, are constantly taking in signals from the outside world, passing them between themselves, maybe giving out new signals
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