I’ve been thinking about “place” a lot lately. Thinking about “place” led to me write this blog post, which got me digging through the great book Applied Ballardianism again, and a chapter called “Cartographies of the Infinite,” where author Simon Sellars contemplates whether future cities can be “tuned to produce a kind of stereoscopic urbanism.”…
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Disastrous Amateurism
Going to maybe start posting TV show or movie ideas. Fake TV shows, perhaps. Fake movies. Here’s one: DISASTROUS AMATEURISM Synopsis: The story of a rookie cop on the homicide beat who’s obsessed with philosophy — your Deleuzes, your Kants, your Lands, your Guattaris, your Batailles. Below is a demo for the TRUE DETECTIVE-like opening…
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STEREOSCOPIC URBANISM
‘In Ballard, trends (and flaws) in architectural design are pursued to their logical extremes…the unspoken tension and psychopathology engendered by such scenarios is recycled, reheated and allowed free rein to play itself out to the bitterest of ends.’https://t.co/IbcFM5dpfU — тцпдяапацт (@tundranaut) March 20, 2020 SOURCE: Ballardian.com: “In a sense, Ballard’s work is about nothing but…