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Dec 5, 2008

the atlas of true names

from the atlas of true names

oh, the romance. recall ursula le guin, the international barcode of life, and the true names of things.

Posted by vaughn tan

Labels: cities, complexity, epistemology, maps, power, sociology, technology

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