Innis

Joshu came back late and Nansen told him what had happened to the cat. Joshu put his sandals on his head and walked out. Nansen said if you had been there you could have saved it. Nobody knows what Joshu meant. That is the point. The gesture was specific to the moment and the people in it and the years of practice that made the gesture legible to exactly those people at exactly that time. You cannot write a protocol for putting sandals on your head at the right moment. That is community. Unrepeatable. The architecture cannot produce it and the architecture cannot replace it.