<p>Californian cool cat <a href="http://research.techkwondo.com/">Julian Bleecker</a> wrote <a href="http://research.techkwondo.com/wiki/DislocationArticle">a very interesting piece</a> about what he calls <i>dislocation</i>: the “<i>ways in which various forms of (mostly electronic) communications/networking social infrastructures make tectonic, geographical alterations on the landscape</i>“. This is meant to appear in a book about locative media edited by Jeremy Hight.</p>

… some of the ways that certain spatial practices related to some technologies are changing how we operate in space. Specifically, the way VoIp shifts the practice of telephony from place-specific to place-agnostic (area-code assignment, Skype from plane or Vonage from plane). There’s no one way to read this shift, other than to say it is emblematic of practice-in-transition. This was anticipated by cell phones and is tied to the relationship between location and motility. The relationship being that location is “ours