Saussurian wreck. / The ruin reified.
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Penda's Fen 1974
The moral is not the Simple Life. A return to more primitive conditions is wanted by few of us; the ultimate objective of all industrial civilization right down to canned beans and mod. con. is not to make Simple Lifers of us but to simplify our lives.
But because all the sustained scientific planning that goes into every industrial process or commercial undertaking stops short at the land surface, the colossal advantages that should be available are dispersed. The more…
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Soviet Bus Stops 2022
New Orientalism at its most American - Meades's as-usual individualism-pandering foreword is majestic by comparison (apologies Owen, I haven't a copy of Volume II to read yours!).
Further observations:
"Look at how the State disregarded this architecture!" followed by an architect showing a chestful of medals he received for this architecture.
I am certain that Brodsky was a big fan of such "eccentricity" (if you will..), really – he just forgot to mention it after he ran away.
(I hope you have enjoyed my very best J.W. Achitoff impression [10% goes to the British Red Cross Ukraine Crisis Appeal]).
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A Very British Coup 1988
And it came to pass that the oil money ran out, and Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard and there was nothing left to privatise, and the merchants and the moneylenders in Yuppieland no longer collected £2 million for passing Go because most of them were in gaol. And among the patient tribes of the poor and the sick and the dispossessed there was great rejoicing. And behold, they looked at the rulers of the land, the aging city-slickers from fifth-rate public schools, and they said: "Gotcha!"
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