Virilio’s “Administration of fear” presented an interesting topic on how we can define an instant and how it is interpreted on a broad scale. Illustrating its efforts through futurist ideas, Virilio presents fear as something that can motivate our disconnection with reality. As scale and wonder dwindles from the human size, its relationship affects the relationship of other things. Man has transformed into the explorations of what is only in front of our faces. The space in which we inhabit is developing into something for the masses, so it is losing its value. Proportion and understanding is a lost act. This is something to agree with. He stated how the greeks used proportion and scale to measure the space in which they inhabit. However today we see a different type of inhabitation. The concern of creating an atmosphere through program instead of the relationships of space is troubling. It doesn’t offer a good effort in integration in the daily world.

“The Lost Dimension” was an interesting read in that it presented a similar idea to what the boundaries of a city are and how architecture is influences by a very specific set of instances. He claims that a city can be overexposed and become a dense populous which would in turn lack a horizon. Its an interesting point that architecture functions on an intimate level with human scale but as a collection it becomes an entity that has a sturdy relationship to time. The collection can offer new space but the boundaries that exist can never really be defined into a city. There must be an integration of how space and time influence design.

The last reading on “Speed and Politics” portrays and interesting point to how society is influenced by the media and how war can create a composition of our cities. Much like in the other readings time is a factor in the creation of space however, it seemed to me through this reading, that the exploitation of space is only influenced by the masses. So a connection between the administration of fear can be presented. We allow the media to influence our perception of society, which in turn can shape how we integrate our cities. Living in fear is not an answer but developing space on a human scale would make things a lot more understandable.