Junkspace
A highly commercialized environment that lacks any real value or meaning.
Noun
- A highly commercialized environment that lacks any real value or meaning.
- Mall culture, airports, Starbucks, the Gap and so on, may seem strange and vacuous in New York, Paris or Cairo but in Dubai these types of non-places and Junkspaces are all that there appears to be. - 2004, Bidoun: A...
- And the city as Junkspace vomits its detritus in the form of those unable or unwilling to pay the price for its maintenance. It isn't only money one needs to exist in Junkspace but the willingness and ability to spend...
- Patterns imply repetition or ultimately decipherable rules; Junkspace is beyond geometry, beyond pattern. Because it cannot be grasped, Junkspace can not be remembered. It is flamboyant yet unmemorable, like a screen...
Origin
From junk + space.