The trace left behind is substituted for the practice.
reminds me of a simulacrum, like prints or photo negatives footprints are each individually copies and gain meaning in this context when repeated with others, the original shoe/person is forgotten.
lipping by night into houses undergoing demolition, hitchhiking nonstop and without destination through Paris during a transportation strike in the name of adding to the confusion, wandering in subterranean catacombs forbidden to the public, etc
It is interesting that all of these examples of activities that share the spirit of the dérive involve rulebreaking/disruption, whereas the previous descriptions do not make a rebellious element to the experience very obvious
Each bit of information is controlled, but the mix of information is accidental and can't be organized
I don't think this is true anymore. Algorithms personalize and control everyone's internet, which asserts the point of the last paragraph, that the internet is a composite of private, self-sufficient and self-serving cities. If public can be a composite of privates, as Acconci states, then 2021 internet would still qualify as a public space, but the increased difference between individual experiences online intuitively seems like it should make it a less public space.
Each person becomes too infected, either with information or with disease, to be with another.
this is topical