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Theatre of the City
Author: Simon Sellars • Jul 16th, 2005 •Category: Ballardosphere, architecture, sport
This article in the Guardian references JG Ballard in the following fashion:
"The future, JG Ballard reckons, is a cocktail of those elements: the ennui of edge-land architecture, airport roads the same everywhere, and highly-visible tanks patrolling the perimeter fence. If an English cricket team ventures to Pakistan it will be accorded, so the relevant diplomat assures us, the highest level of security: "head of state."That is to say, public roads in Karachi will be entirely cleared between five-star hotel and stadium. The city of the spectacle is deserted, crowds under curfew, so that the sport of the people can be performed, at a time suitable to the television networks, in a massively guarded redoubt."
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