Planning Future Ruins

• Main Author: Lanone, Catherine
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Università degli studi di Napoli "L’Orientale" 2021
• Subjects: Northwest passage
• Online Access: http://www.serena.unina.it/index.php/anglistica-aion/article/view/8535; https://doi.org/10.6093/2035-8504/8535

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. 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.