<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">As a quick follow-up to my earlier email - and by way of explanation. I am currently working on a cross disciplinary media project - which, in part, is predicated on the historical - in the States- in California - and deals with it little known history of the socialists ( in Southern California.) </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">I have been fascinated by this little known history ( some might say repressed ) that was fueled by various 20thc utopian drivers. And, yes, I've been conducting innumerable interviews with people in their 90's - who are impressively lively, lucid and, yes, have embodied the role of the non-recognized public intellectual.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">One thing that I have been struck by is the shifting definition of socialism - of communism - and the marketplace during the 20th c to this day. When asking 93 yr. old Betty ( who, to those who are familiar with American TV from the 50's, does bear a remarkably uncanny resemblance to Betty White of Father knows Best ) what it meant to to be communist in Los Angles during the 1940's, her reply was: " Well... we were for health care, we were for social security and we were against segregation."</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Now ... this is from that "little ole lady from Pasadena" who may easily be seen by data filters as representing that 90% middle class to whom Sean was referring. This may well be a quotidian aside to this online discussion, however ... by the implication of Betty's definition, and as Trebor/IDC has posited, how do we define ourselves today - how we define socialism, collective, labor issues, et all both within the shifting historical and theoretical frames and to augment this conversation with the quotidian - as to how we live our lives on ground level ( wherever that may be found.) There are far more "public intellectuals" than we give credit or allow for .... and perhaps an initiative such as IDC could greatly benefit from such perspectives. I urge us not to fall into the self-pleasuring cocoon of technocracy ourselves, as we are continually offered such complex and fascinating worlds to help us wade through this morass that has been constructed.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Chris</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">.</div><div>P.S. And, yes, Danah, my research clearly exemplifies the complicity of nascent corporate entities w/ government in melding economical and culturally ideological drivers for common "profit." What a surprise ....</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Christiane Robbins <<a href="mailto:cpr@mindspring.com">cpr@mindspring.com</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">June 25, 2009 9:36:16 AM PDT</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Jesse Drew <<a href="mailto:jdrew@ucdavis.edu">jdrew@ucdavis.edu</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Cc: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a href="mailto:idc@mailman.thing.net">idc@mailman.thing.net</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Re: [iDC] Class and the Internet, New Capitalism, and (True New) Socialism for the 21st Century</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> </div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Thanks all, once again, for a fascinating discussion. <div><br></div><div>And ... not to go off point here .... just to tangentially follow Jesse's/Sean's thread as it may prove to be a salient factor for consideration. How does one define the pursuit of the ( illusionary ) American dream + the permutations thereof into the globalopolis during this time frame of the early 21st century and the concretization of a technocracy ? And during an era where "ownership" is a moving target, shifting at the rate of a nano-second- where corporate structural displacement serves as one base mechanism of our collective foundation - not to mention consciousness ?</div><div><br></div><div>Chris<br><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Jun 25, 2009, at 8:39 AM, Jesse Drew wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>The lack of a self-identifying working class has vexed labor activists <br>in the US for many decades, and countless theories have arisen to <br>explain this phenomenon. There is no doubt that it has also been part <br>of a conscious strategy pursued by US manufacturers and businesses. <br>One extremely simple yet effective tactic was the widespread adoption <br>of so-called "flex-time" in the 1970s/1980s that gave workers the <br>option to arrive at work at different times but within a limited <br>window and all but eliminated punching into the time clock. This <br>seemingly progressive reform gives the illusion of individual agency <br>and served to atomize the workforce. Standing with your co-workers <br>hundreds strong in a time card line is vastly different than everyone <br>sneaking into work one by one. The internet and computer-based work <br>greatly accentuates the illusion that there is no "class" of workers, <br>just individuals pursuing the American dream.<br><br>Jesse<br><br><br>On Jun 24, 2009, at 8:52 PM, Sean Cubitt wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">I read some stat in the dim past to the effect that 90% (or some <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">equally<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">compelling number) of US citizens identify themselves aa middle class.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">This wd suggest that class consciousness has also been colonised as a<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">hegemonic regime.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">On the other hand, more explicitly class-conscious models can be <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">divisive.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Debate raged in Socialist Worker circles in the 1980s (following the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">establishment of the Party, as opposed to the looser group that <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">existed<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">before) as to whether teachers and civil servants were working- <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">class. Those<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">coming in from the 'workerist' perspective saw them as culturally <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">different.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Those form the class-analysis perspective (Christian's 'objective') <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">saw them<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">as lacking control over their means of production. Two <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">interpretations: a)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">keeping class solidarity (cultural, 'subjective') maintains the <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">coherence of<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">a revolutionary / radical program b) excluding potential allies who <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">share<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">the same objective conditions weakens the same program numerically.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">In the case of internet, what exactly are the means of production? <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">In the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">case of computers, 'control' need not imply ownership. In the case of<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">networks, ditto (regarding distinctions between bandwidth providers, <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">ISPs,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">regulatory bodies etc). Here ownership is always elsewhere (as in the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">protected zone sof proprietary software), and control meticulously<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">displaced. Ergo there is an objective class structure.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">The production of a class consciousness is precluded by the <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">atomisation and<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">individuation of terminals. The language issue also raises itse;f: and<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">suggests that classic class analysis is premised on something very <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">like a<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">national base, with solidarity at inter-national level- unlike our <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">current<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">translocal condition. Ergo the networkers of the world constitute a <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">class<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">without a consciousness.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">(Against my own argument: perhaps in a knowledge economy we also shd<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">include knowledge as means of production. The objective analysis <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">becomes<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">difficult, and opens up on the perspective of 'general intellect' as <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">an<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">organising principle in addition to traditional class analysis)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I really shd be marking . . .<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Sean<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">On 25/06/09 11:20 AM, "Christian Fuchs" <<a href="mailto:christian.fuchs@sbg.ac.at">christian.fuchs@sbg.ac.at</a>> <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Brian brought up an interesting question:<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Is it possible to conceive a class as Marx did,<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">without a notion of a potential class consciousness?<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Is it important<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">in your theory to understand the audience as, at least<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">potentially, a class with a consciousness, a class for<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">itself? If so, how would you -- or do you -- see such<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">consciousness developing and expressing itself?<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">I think you can conceive class in subjective terms based on class<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">consciousness and in objective terms based on the position in the<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">relations of production. In Hegelian Marxism, this distinction is <br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">based<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">in the distinction between being-in-itself, being-for-itself,<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">being-in-and-for-itself. Marx distinguished between class-in-itself <br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">and<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">class-for-itself.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">For me, the fundamental aspect is the class-in-itself that exists <br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">even<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">if there is no class consciousness. The important political <br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">question is<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">how a class-in-itself becomes a class-in-and-for-itself. People like<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Ulrich Beck have a purely subjective, idealistic notion of class, <br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">which<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">allows them to argue that a lack of class consciousness means that we<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">live in a post-class-age, a risk society that is not a class society,<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">etc. I think class is more important than ever, becaue the objective<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">class differences are so huge. My analysis is that objectively<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">(concerning the means of production) we are as close to communism as<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">never before, the means of production have a highly socialized and<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">co-operative character - the Internet is characteristic of it -, but<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">subjectively (concening class consciousness and ideology) we are so <br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">far<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">from communism as never before. This is a highly paradox situation. <br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">The<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">question therefore is how a class-in-itself can become a<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">class-in-and-for-itself. This can only be the result of a politcal<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">process, and there is no automatic transition to this state, it can <br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">only<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">be self-organized by human subjects. It is a question of political<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">strategy and of class struggle, to which there are no pre-given or<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">pre-defined answers. So the question boils down to: What are the<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">perspectives for class struggles today? And in respect to media: <br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Which<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">role can ICTs besides their dominative character have <br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">constructively in<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">class struggles?<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">It is hard to generalize asusmptions about the class consciousness of<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Internet users from theory - here empirical research is also needed <br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">in<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">order to identify potentials. For me it is rather hard to see and<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">identify radical class consciousness on the Internet, so I think <br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">these<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">are more objective potentials than subjective ones, which is to say <br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">that<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">there are more co-operative potentials in technology than critical<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">consciousness on the Internet. There are huge potentials for human<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">development, but they are not-yet realized, today they remain largely<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">unrealized. 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Ph.D.<br>Director, Technocultural Studies<br>University of California at Davis<br>Art Building, Room 316<br>One Shields Avenue<br>Davis, CA 95616<br><br>530-752-9674<br><a href="mailto:jdrew@ucdavis.edu">jdrew@ucdavis.edu</a><br><br><br><br><br><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div><br><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span 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"><o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="1" color="black" face="Helvetica"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica; color: black; "><u1:p> </u1:p></span></font><font color="black"><span style="color: black; "><o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span class="apple-style-span"><font><span><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#717171"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Futura" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "><i>1000 Sq. Ft.</i></span></font></font></span></font></span><font><span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Century Gothic'"><b><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#717171"><u1:p></u1:p></font></i></b></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Century Gothic'"><b><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#717171"><o:p></o:p></font></i></b></font></span></font></div><div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#717171"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Futura"><i>aka</i></font></span></font></font></div><div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#717171"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Futura"><i>The Bauhaus Ranch</i></font></span></font></font></div></span></span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span class="apple-style-span"><font><span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Century Gothic'" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#A29A9E">a film / media project about </font></span></font></span></font></span></div><div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span class="apple-style-span"><font><span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Century Gothic'" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#A29A9E">an architect, a utopian vision</font></span></font></span></font></span><font><span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Century Gothic'" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#A29A9E"><u1:p></u1:p></font></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Century Gothic'" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#A29A9E"><o:p></o:p></font></span></font></span></font></div><div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span class="apple-style-span"><font><span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Century Gothic'" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#A29A9E">and something called home.</font></span></font></span></font></span><font color="black"><span style="color: black; "><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="1" color="black" face="Helvetica"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica; color: black; "><u1:p> </u1:p></span></font><font color="black"><span style="color: black; "><o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="apple-style-span"><i><font size="1" face="Futura"><span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: Futura; font-style: italic; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#A29A9E">" There is no space without event, no architecture without programme; the meaning of architecture, its social relevance and its formal invention, cannot be dissociated from the events that</font></span></font></i></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><font size="1" face="Futura"><span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: Futura; font-style: italic; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#A29A9E"> </font><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#A29A9E"><span hoefler="" font-family:="" futura;="" font-size:="" 9px;="" line-height:="" 18px;="" text-align:="" center;=""></span></font></span></font></i></span><span class="apple-style-span"><i><font size="1" face="Futura"><span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: Futura; font-style: italic; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#A29A9E">" happen " in it. "</font></span></font></i></span><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#A29A9E"><font size="1" face="Futura"></font></font></i><font><span><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#A29A9E"><o:p></o:p></font></span></font></div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#A29A9E"><u1:p></u1:p></font></span><div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="apple-style-span"><i><font size="1" face="Futura"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#A29A9E"><span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: Futura; font-style: italic; "></span>Bernard Tschumi, 1984</font></font></i></span><i><font size="1" color="black" face="Futura"></font></i><font color="black"><span style="color: black; "><o:p></o:p></span></font></div><u1:p></u1:p><u2:p style="font-family: Futura; font-size: 9px; line-height: 18px; text-align: center; "></u2:p><div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; "><u1:p> </u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; "><u1:p> </u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; "><span class="apple-style-span"><font size="1"><span style="font-size: 6pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Futura"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#9C9C9C">A production of</font></font></span></font></span><font color="black"><span style="color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Futura"><o:p></o:p></font></span></font></div><div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#9C9C9C" face="Futura" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px; "><br></span></font></div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Futura"><u1:p></u1:p></font><div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span class="apple-style-span"><font><span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Futura"><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF4105">J E T Z T Z E I T S T U D I O S</font></i></font></span></font></span></div><div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; "><st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><span class="apple-style-span"><font size="1"><span style="font-size: 7pt; "><st1:city u3:st="on"><st1:place u3:st="on"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Futura"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#868686">Los Angeles</font></font></st1:place></st1:city></span></font></span></st1:place></st1:city><span class="apple-converted-space"><font size="1"><span style="font-size: 7pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Futura"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#868686"> </font></font></span></font></span><span class="apple-style-span"><font size="1"><span style="font-size: 7pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Futura"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#868686">- San Francisco</font></font></span></font></span><font><span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Futura"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#868686"><o:p></o:p></font></font></span></font></div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Futura"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#868686"><u1:p></u1:p></font></font><div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; "><span class="apple-style-span"><font size="1"><span style="font-size: 7pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Futura"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#868686">CA</font></font></span></font></span><font color="black"><span style="color: black; 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