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‘Vomit, violence, tabloid architecture…’

By Simon Sellars • Mar 11th, 2008 •

Category: Australia, Ballardosphere, architecture, celebrity culture, fascism, media landscape, micronations, psychology, sport, television, urban revolt

MelbPsy gets all Atrocity Exhibition on the House that Sam Newman built, the ‘tabloid architecture’ sheathing yet another backyard Aussie micronation.



Demanding the Impossible

By Simon Sellars • Dec 3rd, 2007 •

Category: Australia, Ballardosphere, Pacific, academia, alternate worlds, dystopia, micronations, utopia

All Melbourne crew are welcome to come and heckle me this Wednesday (Dec 5, 1pm) at Monash University.



Minimal Concrete City for Sale: Serious Interested Parties Only!

By Simon Sellars • Sep 30th, 2007 •

Category: Ballardosphere, WWII, alternate worlds, architecture, gated communities, micronations

Traven stumbled into a set of tracks left years earlier by a large caterpillar vehicle. The heat released by the weapons tests had fused the sand, and the double line of fossil imprints, uncovered by the evening air, wound its serpentine way among the hollows like the footfalls of an ancient saurian.

One question in particular […]