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Archive for the ‘non-place’ Category

The Office Park

By Nicholas Cobb • Jan 18th, 2010 •

Category: CCTV, Jean Baudrillard, Lead Story, alternate worlds, architecture, death of affect, dystopia, features, gated communities, leisure, non-place, photography, psychopathology, surveillance, technology, theme parks

Nicholas Cobb’s architectural model of a corporate campus, photographed with a malevolent, dystopian flair, and exploring parallel themes to Ballard’s Super-Cannes.


Re-Placing the Novel: Sinclair, Ballard and the Spaces of Literature

By David Cunningham • Oct 5th, 2009 •

Category: Bluewater, Chris Petit, Iain Sinclair, Lead Story, Marc Auge, Situationists, academia, features, memory, non-place, psychogeography, speed & violence

JG Ballard and Iain Sinclair have often been cast in a simple narrative of compatible writers and thematic consistencies. David Cunningham’s wide-ranging article forces a new appreciation of this complex relationship.