Planning Future Ruins : Planning Future Ruins
Going against the grain of Olympic celebrations, Iain Sinclair warned against the disastrous consequences of the Grand Project in Ghost Milk. Instead of the promised regeneration, he could only foresee waste, contamination and the erasure of local culture, while predicting that the brand new Olympic...
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ftdatacite:10.6093/2035-8504/8535 2023-05-15T17:45:57+02:00 Planning Future Ruins : Planning Future Ruins Lanone, Catherine 2021 https://dx.doi.org/10.6093/2035-8504/8535 http://www.jop.unina.it/index.php/anglistica-aion/article/view/8535 en eng Anglistica AION: An Intersciplinary Journal Article article-journal Text ScholarlyArticle 2021 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.6093/2035-8504/8535 2022-02-08T13:50:45Z Going against the grain of Olympic celebrations, Iain Sinclair warned against the disastrous consequences of the Grand Project in Ghost Milk. Instead of the promised regeneration, he could only foresee waste, contamination and the erasure of local culture, while predicting that the brand new Olympic superstructure would soon turn into ruins. Sinclair documents the legacy of a lost place, mourning the annihilation of sheds and familiar haunts. Sinclair engages with modern art, pitting Kapoor against Gormley, to demystify the Olympic epic. He maps the failure of other significant grand projects and former Olympic parks, using psychogeographic drift and the motif of the Northwest Passage, to articulate dissent. : Anglistica AION: An Intersciplinary Journal, Vol 19 No 2 (2015): Wastelands: Eco-narratives in Contemporary Cultures in English Text Northwest passage DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Northwest Passage Sinclair ENVELOPE(-63.883,-63.883,-65.733,-65.733) |
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Going against the grain of Olympic celebrations, Iain Sinclair warned against the disastrous consequences of the Grand Project in Ghost Milk. Instead of the promised regeneration, he could only foresee waste, contamination and the erasure of local culture, while predicting that the brand new Olympic superstructure would soon turn into ruins. Sinclair documents the legacy of a lost place, mourning the annihilation of sheds and familiar haunts. Sinclair engages with modern art, pitting Kapoor against Gormley, to demystify the Olympic epic. He maps the failure of other significant grand projects and former Olympic parks, using psychogeographic drift and the motif of the Northwest Passage, to articulate dissent. : Anglistica AION: An Intersciplinary Journal, Vol 19 No 2 (2015): Wastelands: Eco-narratives in Contemporary Cultures in English |
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