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MUSIC SEVRIN GJERDE -
REM KOOLHAAS JUNKSPACE (19)
THE BAROQUE COMPLEXITIES OF JUNKSPACE WERE COMPENSATED BY THE STARK RAWNESS OF ITS ADJUNCT INFRASTRUCTURES; PARKING GARAGES, FILLING STATIONS, DISTRIBUTION CENTERS THAT ROUTINELY DISPLAYED A MONUMENTAL PURITY THAT WAS THE ORIGINAL AIM OF MODERNISM. NOW, MASSIVE INJECTIONS OF LYRICISM HAVE ENABLED INFRASTRUCTURE - THE ONE DOMAIN PREVIOUSLY IMMUNE TO DESIGN, TASTE OR THE MARKETPLACE - TO JOIN THE WORLD OF JUNKSPACE, AND FOR JUNKSPACE TO EXTEND ITS MANIFESTATIONS UNDER THE SKY. RAILWAY STATIONS UNFOLD LIKE IRON BUTTERFLIES, AIRPORTS GLISTEN LIKE CYCLOPIC DEWDROPS, BRIDGES SPAN OFTEN NEGLIBLE BANKS LIKE GROTESQUELY ENLARGED VERSIONS OF THE HARP. TO EACH RIVULET ITS OWN CALATRAVA. (SOMETIMES WHEN THERE IS A STRONG WIND, THIS NEW GENERATION OF INSTUMENTS MOVES AS IF IT BEING PLAYED BY A GIANT, OR MAYBE A GOD, AND MANKIND SHUDDERS) JUNKSPACE CAN BE AIRBORNE, BRING MALARIA TO SUSSEX; 300 ANOPHELINE MOSQUITOES ARRIVE EACH DAY AT GDG AND GTW WITH THE THEORETICAL ABILITY TO INFECT 8 TO 20 LOCALS IN A 3 MILE RADIUS, A HAZARD EXACERBATED BY THE AVERAGE PASSENGER'S RELUCTANCE, IN A MISPLACED GASP OF QUASI-AUTONOMY, TO BE DISINFECTED ONCE HE OR SHE HAS BUCKLED UP FOR THE RETURN JOURNEY FROM THE DEAD-END OF THE TOURIST DESTINATION. AIRPORTS, PROVISIONAL ACCOMMODATION FOR THOSE GOING ELSEWHERE, INHABITED BY ASSEMBLIES UNITED ONLY BY THE IMMINENCE OF THEIR DISSOLUTION, HAVE TURNED INTO CONSUMPTION GULAGS, DEMOCRATICALLY DISTRIBUTED ACROSS THE GLOBE TO GIVE EVERY CITIZEN AN EQUAL CHANCE OF ADMISSION... MXP LOOKS AS IF ALL THE LEFTOVERS OF EAST GERMANY'S RECONSTRUCTION - WHATEVER WAS NEEDED TO UNDO THE DEPRIVATIONS OF COMMUNISM - HAVE BEEN HURRIEDLY BULLDOZED TOGETHER ACCORDING TO A VAGUELY RECTANGULAR BLUEPRINT TO FORM A BOTCHED SEQUENCE OF DEFORMED, INADEQUATE SPACES, APPARENTLY WILLED INTO BEING BY THE CURRENT RULERS OF EUROPE, EXTORTING LIMITLESS EUROS FROM THE COMMUNITY'S REGIONAL FUNDS, NOW CAUSING ENDLESS DELAYS FOR ITS DUPED TAXPAYERS TOO BUSY ON MOBILES TO NOTICE. DFW IS COMPOSED OF THREE ELEMENTS ONLY, REPEATED AD INFINITUM, NOTHING ELSE: ONE KIND OF BEAM, ONE KIND OF BRICK, ONE KIND OF TILE, ALL COATED IN THE SAME COLOR - IS IT TEALE? RUST? TABACCO? - ITS SYMMETRIES INFLATED BEYOND ANY RECOGNITION, THE ENDLESS CURVE OF ITS TERMINALS FORCES ITS USERS TO ENACT RELATIVITY THEORY IN THEIR QUEST FOR THE GATE. ITS DROP-OFF IS THE SEEMINGLY HARMLESS BEGINNING OF A JOURNEY TO THE HEART OF UNMITIGATED NOTHINGNESS, BEYOND ANIMATION BY PIZZA HUT, DAIRY QUEEN...

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