"Junkspace is the sum total of our current put together, but somehow we do not register on the same scales. We do not leave pyramids."
"Because it costs money, is no longer free, [air-]conditioned space inevitably becomes conditional space; sooner or later all conditional space turns into Junkspace...When we think about space, we have only looked at its containers. As if space itself is invisible, all theory for the production of space is based on an obsessive preoccupation with its opposite: substance and objects, i.e., architecture. Architects could never explain space; Junkspace is our punishment for their mystifications."
"Earthlings now live in a kindergarten grotesque...Junkspace thrives on design, but design dies in Junkspace. There is no form, only proliferation..Regurgitation is the new creativity; instead of creation we honor, cherish, and embrace manipulation.."
"The curse of public space: latent fascism safely smothered in signage, stools, sympathy...Junkspace is postexistential; it makes you uncertain where you are, obscures where you go, undoes where you were."
"God is dead, the author is dead, history is dead, only the architect is left standing...an insulting evolutionary joke..."
-Rem Koolhaas, Junkspace (2002)
My friends introduced me to an interesting personality diagram called the Enneagram a while ago. The book they had was pretty hilarious for the random details it would provide such as likely eating disorders and drug abuses for each type. Without going into much detail, I find myself a solid 4. Yesterday I realized my last relationship wasn't very fulfilling because I definitely disintegrated into a 2.
I need to finish editing the rest of the Christmas photos tomorrow.
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