The Neon Homeland

21May08

Last weekend, I was in Michigan not seeing any art. My plan had been to delve into the Art in America from May still waiting to be broken into, but I absentmindedly forgot almost all of my reading. I came across Bringing Down the House in the paperback section of a Sea-Tac bookstore and [...]

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Tags: art in america, baudrillard, dave hickey, false appearance, las vegas, utopia

Suburban Utopia via YouTube

15Apr08

On the Slog a few weeks back, Charles Mudede linked to the article “On Borrowed Time, Urban Decline Moves to the Suburbs” by Michael Gecan in the Boston Review. Gecan questions the sustainability of the upper class suburbs that prospered substantially over the last two decades, citing DuPage County as a premiere example and [...]

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Tags: disney, personal, simulacra, suburbia, utopia