Finally figured it out it: Reason Rem Koolhaas’ famous Junkspace essay reads so weird is because it’s like watching a priest trying to condemn porn while watching it eagerly.
It’s still a delirious fugue of ecstatic insight, but now it’s also funny
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This is so damn trippy. I make fun of architects but at its best, modern architectural philosophizing is simultaneously truthful lyrical electricity and complete humbug. They’re grammarians reacting authentically to a fundamentally lexical environment pretending to be buildings.
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I’m personally an unabashed fan of Junkspace, especially digital Junkspace and soon metaverse Junkspace
Metaverse will succeed to the extent it us pure Junkspace
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MCU is a fictional Junkspace
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Junkspace is a litmus test that separates postmodernists from metamodernists
Postmodernists are troubled by Junkspace, and try to saturate their accounts of it with a vibe of ominous worry, as Koolhaas himself does.
Metamodernists gleefully lean into it screaming EEAAO!
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Junkspace is all vibes being collided into an undifferentiated plasma and then cooled to cryostasis or something
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Junk space is as close as we’ll ever get to life on a starship. I’d love to see a Star Trek type show but metamodern junkspace sensibilities rather than high/late modernist Stafford Beer cybernetic sensibilities
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Ribbonfarm extended universe aspires to junkspace but I relapse into earnestness too easily/often to make more than a tenuous claim to it
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