Wishlist: Why magic paths are like mod Nations.

[Omnirizon]

is it a cathedral, or a bazaar?

or a bazaar around a cathedral, or inside a cathedral?

maybe its a bazaar of cathedrals.

I just can't decide!!!


EDIT:

oh, and the usage of mechanical metaphors for clearly non-mechanical matters (such as architecture mapped on software) is a large discussion in Science Studies. Actually, some of the most interesting work in understanding the way we think about design and life, and how it fits with the ontology of software and computers, comes from a researcher who went about and asked children what they thought of their Nintendo games and how they worked; something their young minds could think of and speak to in a way that older ones could not.

This was almost two decades ago when Nintendo was still new, and this person predicted the cultural (not just rational/economic/calculable) significance of new digital, non-mechanical, devices. All of which functioned in ways that human culture had never experienced. A child could understand the mechanical workings of a wind up toy car, or whatever. But open a Nintendo and there's no mechanical functions, only microchips and abstract mathematics. We can't even think about those though without a mechanical diagram.