User:Kendal/Situationist Times
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Spam bot/chain mail characters waiting room
The limbo of waiting for people to reply/forward emails
Aspects of waiting rooms, bad art, stock furniture etc. Non-places
Labyrinth, non-places (airports, places where you wait)-> Non - Places by Marc Augé https://www.martinparrfoundation.org/product/boring-postcards/
“Town labyrinths, again. There's Pisa, I don't know what is labyrinthine about it. Then suddenly, this is like when you are queuing at the airport. At some moment I start to call just about everything a labyrinth.”
“Again processions and processions ... I don't know why processions all of a sudden become labyrinthic. And that's how you walk in an underground train station.”
LIMINAL SPACES - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SX8XMwMw6Y SOFT DIMENSIONS - Worked with Inara Nevskaya, an architect while @ Volume Magazine, that studies the psychology of how people use space - https://softdimension.wordpress.com/2012/10/08/40/
Main themes:
Obsolete Media - Chain mail stories Non-Places Psychogeography- Unitary urbanism Dated media - the 90s chain email horror things Goes hand in hand with non-places as they sometimes seem like relics of the past
- linked to the attention economy of gaming? Fast, explosive etc - Could this be an antithesis to this?
Books:
Non Places - Marc Auge Boring Postcards - Martin Parr A Pattern Language - Christopher Alexander, Murray Silverstein, and Sara Ishikawa Super Normal: Sensations of the Ordinary - Naoto Fukasawa Blinking and Flapping - Yasuhiro Suzuki