ABSTRACT
The majority of “smart” initiatives take the form of retrofit transformations to existing “dumb” urban centers. Technoablation lso operates when technological developments are so new that the existence of their parameters is not common knowledge, let alone that they are exploitable. An example that Marc Couroux presents is the correlation between audio speed and vocal pitch that existed in audio production. The cyberaffordant social apparatus is a product of cybernetic feedback circuits designed during the Second World War to facilitate the control of territories in the war effort. Sound forms the framework through which the driver and app interrelate. Notifications feel familiar and unchanging while also arresting the driver’s attention and forcibly disrupting the psychic act of travel. Los Angeles is a city of multiple centers, a quilt of neighborhoods sewn together through long corridors and giant, flying freeways. While projects constructing wholly new and original smart cities from bare earth do exist, they are few.
