[Reader-list] Wired-ness and Improvisation

[Pranesh Prakash]

Bangkok wires: http://www.polarinertia.com/aug07/bangkok01.htm
Improvisation in Thailand:
http://www.kk.org/streetuse/archives/2008/07/improvisation_in_thailand.php
via: Neatorama (http://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/14/bangkok-wires-by-photographer-thomas-kalak/)

>From the first website:   	
Bangkok, totally wired. Cable clutter everywhere. Like electric
monsters they hang over the junction. Sometimes like art-installations
close to the sidewalk. Easy to reach out and touch for kids.

But this special picture [visit the Polar Inertia link to see the
photograph] is as vanishing as the shown technology at the beginning
of the new millennium. It will disapear soon.
As so many things in Bangkok, wires are another symbol for this
chaotic city. It seems to be unsystematic and dysfunctional. But as
the traffic, always close to the collapse, it works, somehow.

In everyday Bangkok, western ideas of order and system have no place
at all. What happens here is instead very much dominated by ordinary
people and a philosophy of relaxed co-existence which permits
seemingly irreconcilable contradictions. Everywhere, one finds a
good-natured willingness to take life as it is, with all of its
tensions and scurrilous variety, and enjoy it as well!

Thomas Kalak