Meaning of junkspace | Babel Free

Definitions

A highly commercialized environment that lacks any real value or meaning.

countable, uncountable

Examples

“The Edenic local, by contrast, is a cheap imitation, the product of a society that displaces itself, that produces not just space junk but also junkspace.”

“We cannot grasp, remember, measure, or even code junkspace. It is chaotic and aseptic at the same time. It marks the acceleration of formlessness and mutation. As form withers we are left with a directionless, transitory, indeterminate, promiscuous, and repressive space. Ian Buchanan explains junkspace is the residue of capitalism, a space that has been reduced to a mass-manufactured good.”

“According to a new gospel of ugliness, there is already more junkspace under construction in the twenty-first century than has survived from the twentieth.”

“The theme of disjunctive inclusion was already present in the project for the Ville Nouvelle France–Melun Senart (1987) where the new city development plan included bands that do not develop, or free development without any rules, without a plan: a sort of controlled portion of junkspaces.”

“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.”

“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 in accordance with its regulations.”

“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 saver, its refusal to freeze insuring instant amnesia. Circulation Junkspace is often described as a space of flows, but that is a misnomer; flows depend on disciplined movement, bodies that cohere.”

“As you recover from Junkspace, Junkspace recovers from you: between 2 and 5 a.m., yet another population, this one heartlessly casual and appreciably darker, is mopping, hoovering, sweeping, toweling, resupplying.”

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