Levy's Ark

“Deluge” means “flood.” The two floods that Lévy compares are the Biblical Flood and the current flood of information. Explain the comparison. How is the current “deluge” like and unlike the Biblical Flood, according to Lévy? Evaluate the comparison. Which parts of the analogy, if any, do you find helpful or intriguing? Which parts bunk?

Levy and Jacobs: Digital Urbanism

Compare Jane Jacob’s vision of the city as a case of “organized complexity” and Pierre Levy’s vision of the internet as the “weaving of a social bond” and “a particular form of urbanism and architecture.” p. 177. In what ways, in your view, is the internet like a city? In what ways, in your view, do digital forms of communication either enhance or detract from social and political life?