Friday, June 27, 2014

* WHAT CAN THE VOID DO? THE POLITICS AND AESTHETICS OF EMPTINESS IN THE URBAN IMAGINARY *

The city of Detroit, alienated from any real trace of its identity, is recast in the image of an apocalyptic wasteland, as much a shell as the building itself. What serves here to conjure the fantasy of
an exquisitely rusted playground for two impossibly cool vampires poses in a separate
world – that is, our own – a threat to the culture and future of one of America’s most
mythologized cities.

(pages 1-2)

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