This is an excellent and needed comment by Jim Meredith on a BLDGBLOG piece about Die Hard. Geoff Manaugh can get breathlessly excited about some pretty horrifying shit:
'"Boundless, oceanic fluidity of Nakatomi space' has such poetic charm associated with it that it almost sounds like the foundation for a manifesto for a new kind of architecture and urbanism.
However, as you note early in you piece by quoting those who maintain, live in, and trust the concept of private space, the Nakatomi/Nablus/DieHard concept is, in fact, a shocking and gross violation of a core concept of civil society.
Whether as the Israeli army 'worm' or the worm in our computers, busting through walls is an act of violation and violence. To celebrate it is symptomatic of the erosion of civility most recently exemplified by the Zuckerburg/Facebook emerging manifesto – 'privacy is no longer a social norm.'"
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