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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ftunivnapoliojs:oai:serena.unina.it:article/8535 2023-10-29T02:39:01+01:00 Planning Future Ruins Lanone, Catherine 2021-11-19 application/pdf http://www.serena.unina.it/index.php/anglistica-aion/article/view/8535 https://doi.org/10.6093/2035-8504/8535 eng eng Università degli studi di Napoli "L’Orientale" http://www.serena.unina.it/index.php/anglistica-aion/article/view/8535/9230 http://www.serena.unina.it/index.php/anglistica-aion/article/view/8535 doi:10.6093/2035-8504/8535 Copyright (c) 2021 Anglistica AION: An Interdisciplinary Journal Anglistica AION: An Intersciplinary Journal; Vol 19 No 2 (2015): Wastelands: Eco-narratives in Contemporary Cultures in English; 81-90 Anglistica AION: An Interdisciplinary Journal; V. 19 N. 2 (2015): Wastelands: Eco-narratives in Contemporary Cultures in English; 81-90 2035-8504 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Articolo Peer-reviewed 2021 ftunivnapoliojs https://doi.org/10.6093/2035-8504/8535 2023-10-05T08:39:48Z 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. Article in Journal/Newspaper Northwest passage SeReNa (System for electronic peer-Reviewed journals @ university of Naples) |
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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. 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. |
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