<i>Le città invisibili</i> as Cybertext and Cyberspace: Italo Calvino, Ted Nelson, and Arata Isozaki

This article considers the place of Le città invisibili within debate on cybernetics, both as a product its time well harbinger future advent network culture. It proposes to interpret two most emblematic images book – enchanted palace Kublai Khan, and everchanging ‘invisible cities’ visited by Marco Polo Calvino’s personal contribution definition cybertext cyberspace. Curiously, same are also found in work contemporaries: American pioneer information technology Ted Nelson, Japanese architect exponent Metabolist movement Arata Isozaki. Through comparative analysis, this shows how new concept brought cybernetics crystallised virtually identical metaphors across disciplines cultures: literature, with Calvino, computer science architecture