Reading 4: Critical Vehicles

While reading Wodiczko's Critical Vechicles, I came across an interesting social norm in between the concept of strangers and infants/children. Stranger to stranger they treat each other the same, they have these protective barriers where they have this discriminatory alien outlook between each other. They view each other as hopeless, voiceless infants shielded from the "New" world. While the children don't have those barriers and they are free of those social norms. They can go up to a random homeless guy and get to know them by asking way too many questions, but they are the one's who care enough to approach another complete stranger.

Concerning the State hybrid, Wodiczko uses a quote from John Holusha describing how mixing metals together can help obtain different properties making a new material altogether. "The new materials represent a new state of matter that was previously unavailable." Fussing these social differences can later mix and form a hybrid of what is already there, and for the better with none of it's flaws, so to say.

I also found interesting the cry for help to de-alienation toward society. To change and bend the minds of society is absolutely impossible. The image of this utopia, just like every other utopia, is a dream far out of reach. The value is just, in the way it can open up the minds to many others creating a new feel of society. The main obstacle for this utopia is human's nature to protect it's self from leaving their space around them.