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Now that by electricity we have externalized all of
our senses, we are in the desperate position of not
having any sensus communis. Prior to electricity,
the city was the sensus communis for such
specialized and externalized senses as technology
had developed. From Aristotle onward, the
traditional function of the sensus communis is to
translate each sense into the other senses, so that
a unified, integral image is offered at all times to
the mind. The city performs that function for the
scattered and distracted senses, and spaces and
times, of agrarian cultures. Today with electronics
we have discovered that we live in a global village,
and the job is to create a global city, as centre for