Life is a journey. No doubt. In both metaphorical and literal sense we cross time and space as we experience our lives. We move. Always move. For some people, such as the immigrants, the journey is quite literal and involves deep human, natural, cultural and social trasnformations. For others, like the tourists, the journey is…
It is not just about coffee, it is more about the space, and in particular, about the “free” and “open” public/private space. The importance of coffeehouses as social spaces has been well documented in studies across multiple disciplines. Jurgen Habermas (1962) talked about the existence of coffeehouses as one of the crucial spaces for rational…
Regardless of the massive adoption of digital cameras and other mobile devices capable of recording images and of the massification of amateur photography, the tradition of informal photo-booths in public spaces is still alive in Latin America. Proof of that is the diversity of informal street photography studios that one can encounter when visiting Chapultepec…
Since the 19th century travelogues have been a popular media format. First as illustrated lectures accompanied with glass-lantern slides and moving images projections, and later as films and television shows, travelogues are media bound to place. Because their location orientation, they could be considered an early form of geo-locative media. The practitioners of the travelogue…
More than eleven years took me to come back to Mexico City, Distrito Federal (DF). The return has surprised me as much as it happened the first time I landed in this gigantic metropolis. This city moves as none other city in the planet earth, revealing layers of architecture, colors, flavors, sounds and smells as…
Although the marketing campaign and the creation of the OS revolution have been a success regarding the mainstreaming the OS label and the creation of a grand narrative around the OS mode of production, they can be criticized because their modern aspirations. The mere intention of creating a myth that relies in the idea of…
Open Source (OS) can be associated with several things, a community, a movement, a revolution, a mode of production, a culture, a non-propietary computer software. Its wide connotations make open source difficult to grasp, to comprehend. In this essay I reconstruct the OS revolution as a modern mythmaking process and elaborate a critique of it….