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Bonie Evans
The fact that the Trump has the temerity
to fire Ministers by tweet, after letting
the public know beforehand, is already
routine, and it isn’t the first or the last case
whereby impulsive tweets from impulsive
leaders determine the relationships
between states, not to mention the Tweet
War that almost caused World War III,
but luckily changed direction at the last
minute.
And this is no joke! Reality shows that
political events like these quickly generate
fluctuations pregnant with meaning in
world economics, some of which are
pregnant with disaster, although they are
not based on much more knowledge than
that of a bird thirsty for a bit of attention.
And it isn’t by chance that the devious
media has chosen to define the brief
messages in a single-syllable sound - a
language apparently understood by birds,
but not by other beings.
Twitter, like architecture or any other
language, serves to convey social
expressions. In this context it must be
said that images in general, and globally
transmitted images in particular, have a
cardinal effect on globalization, blurring
local content, thereby reducing the role
of architecture as the main medium for
regulating social interactions in space
that are naturally founded on a balanced
compromise between spatial and trans-
spatial relations (as was intelligently
food for thought
tweeting architecture
in one-syllable language
defined by the father of sociology, Emile
Durkheim).
In this regard, an international language
such as Twitter plays a major role in
overcoming spatial relations, converting
them into non-spatial ones.
Unlike other social networks controlled by
algorithms, Twitter arrived at the forefront
of the political stage primarily because it is
not subject to any database. Established in
2006 by Jack Dorsey, a Cornell University
student, the interface allowed un-filtered
messaging, enabling everyone to speak
with the opinionated at eye-level.
Thus, in 2007, Twitter made its mark
at the SXSW Festival (an annual
conglomerate of film and interactive
media) when participants’ tweets were
publicly screened in real time, creating
a multi-dialog that allowed thousands of
users to say what they wanted without
any intervention.
Actually based on Harrison Owen’s Open
Space invention, Twitter has since then
gained 60,000 new users per day, from
private users to world leaders, world-
wide media systems, television networks,
bloggers, computer game players and,
especially, gossip mongers.
And, with over 150 million active users,
the second largest social network in the
world (after Facebook) is more than likely
to impact architecture as well; and the
establishment of the new “Ramat Trump”
settlement - an impulse born without any
previous thought, is only one of millions
of decisions determined according to
political, economic and psychological
events, envisioned through single-syllable
messages, precluding any chance of in-
depth, responsible or mature planning.
Due to the fact that today more than
ever, architecture, both locally and
globally is politically dependent, Twitter
is a main player in the field of planning
and construction, evidence of which
is President Trump’s declaration of
Jerusalem as Israel’s Capital, already
established in the 1948 Declaration of
Independence .
Moreover, one can already attribute
important qualities to the (‘I…just one
tweet’) social interface, such as “public
sharing”, the right to know and primarily
- the ability to express an opinion in a
media that until not long ago was kept in
the (new) Emperor’s backyard.
And thus, architecture’s exclusivity as a
medium responsible for producing arenas
for interaction, determining their nature
and the conditions of their existence, is
hitherto undisputed.
While previously there was harmony
between architecture and the society that
produced it, the new technologies create
The accusatory question of “who twitted” is the equivalent of “who said something without
being asked” - a disturbing phrase intended to provoke a reaction whether true or just
a bluff. About two months ago the American prince blurted out his morning “tweet” as
a result of which the Israeli emperor made a far-reaching decision about the relations
of both countries. “If Israel enables the two Democratic congresswomen to enter their
country (tweeted The Trump), it would indicate political weakness.”Within minutes and,
significantly, without any in-depth discussion of the issue – Bibi decided to change
Israel’s Foreign Policy, canceling a previous decision to allow the two members of the
Democratic Party to visit Israel without prior conditions. However, contrary to the hasty
intention, the congresswomen received global coverage, turning them into overnight
“martyrs” of democracy.